Engineer Job 2026: Europe to San Francisco With Visa Sponsorship
Overview
Orpex, an AI-focused company building infrastructure for service businesses, is hiring a full-time engineer from Europe who is ready to relocate to San Francisco, California. The company offers fully sponsored and paid visa support and a paid move, with relocation planned for January 2027. Work begins in Europe, with Vienna named as the initial location, and the role is ultimately in person rather than permanently remote.
Orpex describes its platform around agentic workforces, a company brain, a human trust layer and a unified business cockpit. It says it recently closed an oversubscribed US$2.5 million angel round and runs as a small, fast-moving team. Depending on strengths, the hire may join as a Founding Engineer, Member of Technical Staff or Applied AI Engineer.
There is no fixed roadmap. Engineers work across the whole platform, decide what needs building, ship it and get feedback directly from users. The company says new engineers can expect to ship production code in their first week, own projects from specification to deployment, work on both infrastructure and user interfaces, join customer conversations and possibly help hire future engineers.
What you get
The package includes a competitive salary in Europe that moves to San Francisco-level pay after relocation, meaningful early-stage equity, and the sponsored visa and relocation described above.
Who can apply
Orpex wants engineers who have already built and shipped products used by real users, with strong product-engineering ability, experience of AI-assisted development, independence and a willingness to talk to users. Comfort in a fast-changing startup and a high degree of ownership are expected. Having founded a company or joined a startup early is a bonus. Candidates should be seriously interested in moving to San Francisco.
How to apply
The selection process has a 30-minute introductory call, a 90-minute technical deep dive on something the candidate has built, a technical task, and then an offer, which can come within the same week.