Orbital

Orbital, founded in 2022, is an "AI Industrial" company that applies frontier artificial intelligence across the design and manufacture of physical products. Rather than treating materials discovery, hardware design and manufacturing as separate stages, it integrates them into a single AI-driven loop, with the stated aim of operating at software-like speeds in the physical economy. The company is based in London and San Francisco.

Its first products target AI data centers: cooling materials for high-density GPUs, derived from new molecular classes discovered through its own co-design approach to materials and hardware. Beyond data centres, the company works towards applications in energy, semiconductors and manufacturing more broadly.

The company's technical work spans AI/ML for physical product design, molecular and materials discovery, hardware design, thermal management and manufacturing. Its stated premise is that conventional hardware R&D is slow and costly - each experiment typically taking months and millions of dollars - and that an integrated, AI-first process can compress years of development into months.

Orbital describes its culture as conviction-driven and mission-oriented, with workflows intended to break down the silos between materials, hardware and manufacturing teams. Technical candidates with backgrounds spanning these disciplines are likely to find the cross-domain model relevant to the work.