Solutions Architect

About Orbital Join the fastest-growing AI startup in Hyderabad: Orbital. We’re a New York City startup with a major team in Hyderabad. With $4.5M in funding from Silicon Valley investors, we’re building a platform that uses AI agents to help sales teams sell 10x faster. Today Orbital is trusted by public companies like Hewlett-Packard and Instacart as well as quickly growing startups like Classpass. We have a fun, in-person culture, free lunch and dinner, and a quickly growing team in Hyderabad. Orbital was founded in 2021 by Ani Kunaparaju and Riley Soward, who split their time between New York City and Hyderabad

About the Role We’re looking for a technically strong Solutions Architect to work directly with our team and customers to design, build, and optimize AI-driven workflows on Orbital. You’ll combine deep technical skills with problem-solving to deliver real business impact.

What You'll Do Architect AI Systems Design end-to-end workflows involving LLMs, APIs, enrichment providers, databases, and automation layers. Whiteboard system interactions before implementation. Build multi-source data pipelines with deduplication, scoring, ranking, and fallback logic. Make informed trade-offs: cost vs coverage, LLM vs regex, real-time vs batch, precision vs recall. Customer Advisory Lead technical discovery and translate business requirements into robust architectures. Guide onboarding and ensure fast time-to-value. Educate customers on AI trade-offs and system limitations. Optimize in Production Debug complex workflows across multiple services. Improve accuracy, reliability, and cost efficiency. Implement monitoring and performance improvements.

Must Haves 4–8 years in solutions architecture, consulting, sales engineering, or similar customer-facing technical roles. Ability to overlap with US time zones. Strong systems thinking — you can diagram how 6–8 services interact. Experience building multi-source data pipelines with scoring and fallback logic. Deep understanding of architectural trade-offs (cost, latency, accuracy). Sales intelligence or business data enrichment experience. Vertical SaaS experience.

Additional Perks Fast-paced, high-energy startup environment Free lunch, dinner, and snacks Top-of-the-line health insurance Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI technologies