Senior System Engineer jobs at Orcaai in Israel, Tel Aviv-yafo

A TechOps Specialist at Orca AI is responsible for managing deployed systems - including the hardware, software, and networking components, and delivering excellent technical support.

What will you do?

• Provide technical support to customers worldwide and Troubleshoot complex technical issues
• Automate processes and tasks to improve efficiency and reduce the risk of errors.
• Solve networking technical issues
• Overseeing new customer installations
• Deploying SW upgrades
• Work closely with other teams, such as development, DevOps, QA, and PM, to ensure that systems are aligned with business needs and goals.
• Occasional travel to customer sites for advanced troubleshooting

What You'll Do

As a Senior System Engineer at Orca AI, you'll be the technical lead for system-related aspects of our products. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and deliver robust solutions that redefine maritime operations. Your responsibilities will include:

• Define System Architecture: Establish hardware and software requirements for new and existing products.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work alongside Product Management and R&D Team Leaders to ensure seamless design, implementation, and testing.
• Understand Customer Needs: Analyze market trends and customer feedback to shape technical solutions.
• Lead System Integration: Oversee hardware and software integration, ensuring smooth interactions between components.
• Support Field Operations: Provide technical support for field trials, customer deployments, and production processes.
• Problem-Solving: Identify, communicate, and resolve technical challenges throughout the development lifecycle.
• Mentorship: Guide and mentor technical team members, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning.

Responsibilities

• From discovery and ideation to delivery and iteration.
• Conduct explorations, including interviews, usability tests, and data analysis, to uncover customers’ pain points and validate design solutions.
• Map and refine user journeys.
• Work closely with fellow designers as well as Product, R&D, and Data teams to define requirements and deliver high-impact features that balance user needs with business goals.
• Create wireframes, prototypes, and interactive mockups to communicate design concepts, validate ideas, and gather user feedback.
• Leverage tools like Mixpanel and Fullstory to analyze user behavior, identify friction points, and iteratively improve designs.
• Clearly communicate design concepts and progress to stakeholders, including executives, using storytelling and data to support your decisions.
• Work within an agile framework, iterating on designs based on feedback and evolving requirements.
• Creating and maintaining a scalable design system.

What You'll Do

As a Senior System Engineer at Orca AI, you'll be the technical lead for system-related aspects of our products. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and deliver robust solutions that redefine maritime operations. Your responsibilities will include:

• Define System Architecture: Establish hardware and software requirements for new and existing products.
• Integrate Camera Technologies: Oversee the integration of advanced camera systems, including thermal cameras, ensuring optimal performance in diverse environmental and operational conditions.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work alongside Product Management and R&D Team Leaders to ensure seamless design, implementation, and testing.
• Understand Customer Needs: Analyze market trends and customer feedback to shape technical solutions.
• Lead System Integration: Oversee hardware and software integration, ensuring smooth interactions between components.
• Support Field Operations: Provide technical support for field trials, customer deployments, and production processes.
• Problem-Solving: Identify, communicate, and resolve technical challenges throughout the development lifecycle.
• Mentorship: Guide and mentor technical team members, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning.

Our AI-driven technology operates across a global fleet, analyzing raw camera data to perform —making the seas safer, smarter, and more efficient.

What will you do?

• Experience with Vision Transformers, Graph Neural Networks, or Autoencoders.
• Knowledge of Projective Geometry, SLAM, or camera calibration techniques.
• Hands-on experience with NVIDIA Jetson or edge computing platforms.
• Familiarity with maritime technology or autonomous systems.

Orca AI applies cutting-edge research to train deep neural networks on problems ranging from perception to collision avoidance. Our per-camera networks analyze raw images to perform object detection, monocular depth estimation, tracking, and collision prediction.

Our technology helps Captains and Officers on the bridge get an accurate view of the environment in real time and make life-altering decisions. Empowered by AI, as well as the combination of new tools and current infrastructure, our approach is an innovative path yet to be taken in marine transportation.

● Develop computer vision algorithms for object detection, tracking, depth estimation, and perception.

● Build and train deep learning models to enable complex scene perception for real-time analysis.

● Collaborate with team members to define future technology and features.

● Improvement of DL development cycles

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the design and architecture of innovative data systems from scratch to production in order to support Orca’s analytics initiatives.
• Leverage innovative and modern data platforms to manage, transform, and process data for data analysis, ML and AI models, supporting real-time and batch-processing workflows.
• Work with cross-functional teams to implement data solutions that support model training, monitoring, and production deployment.
• Design, develop and maintain ETL workflows for maritime data sources.
• Develop backend services that perform data transformations to standardize data and prepare it for production level

Requirements and Skills:

• 5+ years’ experience as a data engineer / BI developer or a similar role.
• Hands-on experience working with large DWH / data analytics structures and developing pipelines in a BigData environment.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture principles, design patterns, and best practices.
• Excellent knowledge of SQL with advanced analytics data orientation.
• Proficient with Python programming and OOP concepts.
• Experience in breaking down complex business problems into clear, implementable technical specifications
• Experience in designing and implementing decision engines that can:
• Process multiple input parameters
• Apply complex conditional logic
• Generate consistent and predictable outputs
• Excellent understanding of data and schema standards and concepts.
• Experience in a Cloud Native environment, such as AWS – an advantage.
• Experience with Snowflake – an advantage.
• We work 4 days a week from our office in Tel Aviv