AI Engineer, Developer

Austin, Texas | Hybrid, three days a week in our Austin office | Full time

The AI Engineer will extend ORC8R's support for AI assisted development workflows and apply machine learning to improve platform operations. This role spans the developer facing catalog of AI coding tools and internal platform automation.

• Improve how ORC8R packages, deploys and scales AI coding agents and related developer tooling
• Design and prototype AI assisted platform features such as automated diagnostics and natural language configuration
• Partner with the platform team to define resource, networking and security requirements for AI agent workloads
• Track emerging developer usage patterns around AI coding tools and translate them into product improvements
• Ship and evaluate features based on measurable impact

• Three or more years of software engineering experience, including hands on work building applications with large language models
• Experience with agent frameworks, tool calling or developer facing AI features
• Ability to work across product definition and implementation
• Sound technical judgment about where AI genuinely improves a workflow versus where it does not
• Based in or willing to relocate to Austin, Texas

• Experience packaging or operating developer tools such as coding agents or CLIs at scale
• Background in developer experience or platform engineering
• Proficiency in Rust

This role includes a competitive base salary, equity, health coverage and other standard benefits. Compensation will be discussed during the interview process.

ORC8R operates a compute platform that gives development teams self service access to bare metal servers and virtual machines. The platform manages provisioning, orchestration, network isolation and lifecycle management, so engineering teams can request infrastructure and receive a running node in minutes without manual operations work.

ORC8R is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, compensation, benefits, transfer, and termination.

Consistent with the City of Austin Fair Chance Hiring Ordinance, we do not inquire about criminal history until after a conditional offer of employment has been made. If you have a disability and need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, contact  to make a request. Employment with ORC8R is contingent upon successful completion of a background check where permitted by applicable law.