--- title: 'Senior Cloud & Backend Software Engineer at Orbit Neuro Co.' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-cloud-backend-software-engineer-orbit-neuro-co-san-francisco-0r5t9mt5388f' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-11' --- # Senior Cloud & Backend Software Engineer at Orbit Neuro Co. - **Company:** Orbit Neuro Co. - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Compensation:** $185k–$215k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-11-09 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/orbit/ce3ebc6d-f6d6-4c19-92d4-fdcbbd87bead ## Job description ## About Orbit We're a team of engineers, neuroscientists, and designers working to deepen our understanding of the human brain. We're building a wearable brain-computer interface and models that decode emotion, with the goal of putting human experience and wellbeing at the center of technology. Our work spans neural sensors, embedded systems, scientific software, and AI. We're venture funded, with backing from founders and executives across AI, neurotechnology, consumer hardware, and pharmaceuticals, including Google, Hugging Face, Apple, Stability, Microsoft, and Dropbox. ## About the role Build the data foundation that connects neural recordings to scientific discovery. This is a greenfield opportunity to shape our backend architecture, data model, database design, and the services that make recordings accessible and useful. You'll have real influence over technology choices and how the platform grows. Leading candidates include Supabase and PostgreSQL, with S3-compatible object storage and Zarr v3 for scientific arrays. We favor focused services and managed infrastructure that give a small team room to build ambitious capabilities. You will - Shape the backend architecture and select technologies around the needs of our product, researchers, and engineering team. - Design the data model and relational database schema, including recording identity, configuration, provenance, relationships, indexing, and schema migrations. - Build APIs and services for ingesting, storing, discovering, and retrieving recordings and their metadata. - Design authentication, authorization, and credential flows that make access secure and straightforward. - Collaborate with desktop engineers on robust upload and synchronization workflows that preserve recording integrity. - Develop scientific data storage around useful access patterns, balancing performance, scalability, and cost. - Establish automated testing, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), and observability that keep the platform reliable and easy to evolve. You are - An engineer with a degree in computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field, and at least five years of relevant professional experience. - Experienced designing and operating backend services, with depth in a modern production language. - Comfortable with data modeling, relational database design, SQL, APIs, and cloud object storage. - Familiar with authentication, authorization, and credential management across application boundaries. - Able to design robust data flows and reason about consistency between services, stored data, and metadata. - Interested in shaping a greenfield system, making tradeoffs explicit, and choosing designs a small team can build and evolve. - Someone who enjoys collaborating with the people producing and consuming the data. You might also - Have experience with Supabase or PostgreSQL row-level security (RLS), or bring related database and managed-backend experience with MySQL, Firebase, or Appwrite. - Have built REST or GraphQL APIs, serverless functions, event-driven services, or data ingestion pipelines on AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure. - Have worked with Zarr, HDF5, Apache Arrow, Parquet, or scientific datasets, and understand how storage formats support different access patterns. - Know object storage such as Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, or Azure Blob Storage, resumable uploads, or identity and access patterns using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, or JWTs. - Have supported native desktop or connected-device clients, or built asynchronous data flows using MQTT, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, or comparable messaging technologies. - Have used infrastructure as code with Terraform or Pulumi, container tools such as Docker, or observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana. - Bring experience with data provenance, reproducible processing, or datasets used in model development. We're looking for a strong foundation and the ability to grow. You don't need experience with every technology we use, and the "You might also" section is entirely optional. If the core work feels like a good match but some details are new to you, we'd like to hear from you. Prior neuroscience or brain-computer interface experience isn't expected. ## How we work We're a small, high-performance team with quick feedback loops and room to experiment. You'll work directly with people across engineering, neuroscience, and design, understand why your work matters, and have real influence over how we build. We work with modern software and hardware stacks and a Linux-forward development environment. We use principled engineering and thoughtful design to explore, build and test, aided by modern agentic workflows. You'll have room to shape both the product and the way we create it. ## About Orbit Neuro Co. ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Orbit Neuro builds a non-invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) that decodes emotions to make mental health as transparent and actionable as physical health. - **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed; pre-seed/seed stage) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2024 - **Founders**: Akshat Sharma (CEO) and Dipanshu Gandhi (Co-Founder & CTO) ## Core Business - **Industry**: Neurotechnology / Mental Health / Healthcare IT - **Target Customers**: B2C (individuals seeking mental wellness) and B2B (clinics, outpatient services, employers) - **Mission**: To create an "interface to emotion" – a technology that makes mental health as trackable and actionable as physical health, using non-invasive neurotech. ## Products & Services - **Emotion‑Decoding BCI**: A non‑invasive brain‑computer interface that reads neural signals to identify emotional states. The product is described as a “fitness device for your brain” and aims to provide real‑time mental health insights. (Type: Hardware + SaaS / mobile app) - **Foundation Model for Emotion**: A proprietary foundation model trained on neural data to decode and predict emotional states, enabling empathetic technology. (Type: Software / AI Model) ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding raised **$401K** (as of early 2026, per PitchBook) - **Notable Investors / Partners**: One Mind Accelerator (lead), University of Cambridge, Cambridge Enterprise Ventures, Entrepreneurs First, Founders at the University of Cambridge - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount grew **233% YoY** to 8 employees (as of mid‑2026) - Hired **Jeff C. Jensen** (former CTO at Blackrock Neurotech, VP Engineering at Creator) as Founding Engineer in September 2025 - LinkedIn followers increased **222.9% year‑over‑year** to ~1,056 - Active job postings for key technical roles (Founding ML Engineer, Expression of Interest) - Presence in both San Francisco and United Kingdom ## Competitive Advantages - **Non‑invasive BCI**: Avoids the complexity and regulatory hurdles of implanted devices while still offering neural‑level insight. - **Emotion‑Decoding Foundation Model**: Proprietary AI trained on neural data gives a unique data advantage and potential for a platform play. - **Top‑talent pedigree**: Team includes alumni from Blackrock Neurotech, University of Cambridge, and former founders from multiple startups. - **Mission‑driven focus**: Addresses the massive unmet need for objective, data‑driven mental health tools. ## Strategic Focus - **Product development**: Building and refining the BCI hardware and the emotion‑decoding foundation model. - **Talent acquisition**: Actively hiring founding engineers (ML, product design) to accelerate product iteration. - **Clinical validation**: Likely pursuing partnerships with clinics and research institutions (given investor ties to Cambridge and One Mind Accelerator). - **Market entry**: Initially targeting early adopters in mental health and wellness, with potential expansion into employer wellness and telemedicine platforms. ## Why Work Here - **Mission‑driven**: Directly work on a product that could reshape how people understand and manage their mental health. - **High impact, lean team**: Join as a founding‑level contributor in an 8‑person startup (currently only ~3 in technical roles) – your work directly shapes the product. - **Top‑tier peers**: Collaborate with veterans from Blackrock Neurotech, Cambridge, and other leading neurotech players. - **Work environment**: Based in San Francisco with a presence in the UK; likely a hybrid or remote‑friendly setup for engineering roles. - **Growth opportunity**: 233% headcount growth and fresh funding signal strong momentum; early employees can earn significant equity in a fast‑growing startup. ## Sources 1. [orbitneuro.com](https://orbitneuro.com/) 2. [Ashby Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/orbit) 3. [LinkedIn - Orbit Neuro](https://www.linkedin.com/company/orbit-neuro) 4. [BizProfile - California Secretary of State Filing](https://www.bizprofile.net/ca/sacramento/orbit-neuro-co) 5. [PitchBook Profile](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/590935-42) ## Other roles at Orbit Neuro Co. - [Senior Software Engineer - Generalist](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-generalist-orbit-neuro-co-san-francisco-stg9247k7k5v) — San Francisco, CA - [Senior IoT Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-iot-software-engineer-orbit-neuro-co-san-francisco-z6691n1s0rkq) — San Francisco, CA - [Senior Embedded Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-embedded-software-engineer-orbit-neuro-co-san-francisco-fk9kypc4mkc9) — San Francisco, CA - [Senior Desktop Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-desktop-software-engineer-orbit-neuro-co-san-francisco-fajaf4b5p0e8) — San Francisco, CA - [Expression of Interest](https://feeny.ai/job/expression-of-interest-orbit-neuro-co-san-francisco-17j9k4sasbgf) — San Francisco, CA - [Founding Machine Learning Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-machine-learning-engineer-orbit-neuro-co-san-francisco-75vy95xjx2mw) — San Francisco, CA