Help Shape What's Next for the Industry - With Orderfox
Own the platform that powers AI agents at scale.
At Orderfox, we’re building AI agents that turn manufacturing data into action—identifying suppliers, revealing capacity, and enabling faster, smarter decisions. We're scaling quickly beyond CNC into injection moulding, sheet metal, additive manufacturing, and robotics. Our Azure platform is live and delivering value. Now we’re standardising and hardening it into a repeatable foundation for more agents, higher data volumes, and new verticals—this is where you come in.
Role Overview
As a Senior Azure Platform Engineer, you’ll own the platform’s evolution and readiness for what’s next. You'll report to the CTO, work in a strong ~15-person engineering team, and ship with high autonomy—clear outcomes, fast decisions, no micromanagement, no heavyweight specs. We work AI-first (Claude, Cursor, Azure CLI) and favour building over meetings and slide decks.
What You'll Make Happen
- Platform & Infrastructure Ownership
- Own and evolve our Azure environment (Container Apps, Functions, storage, networking, data pipelines).
- Scale our scraping and vision extraction systems as data volumes grow.
- Automate provisioning and operations (IaC where it fits, AI-assisted tooling where it’s faster).
- Build observability that’s actionable: monitoring, alerting, and cost tracking that actually helps.
- DevOps & Team Enablement
- Create CI/CD pipelines that let engineers ship agents fast and safely.
- Keep the engineering team unblocked on infrastructure topics (deployments, environments, access, tooling).
- Establish patterns and standards that make the platform easier to build on (templates, conventions, guardrails).
- Document key decisions and systems clearly so the team scales without tribal knowledge.
- Platform Evolution
- Architect for future needs: MLOps readiness, multi-vertical scaling, and agent orchestration at scale.
- Optimise Azure spend responsibly (including a $44M commitment to use efficiently).
- Support Microsoft partnership requirements when needed (co-sell, marketplace).
What Eases Your Start
- You work AI-first. Claude, Cursor, and Copilot are part of how you operate.
- You’re at home on Azure in real environments with 5+ years of experience building and running systems.
- You automate by default—whether it’s Terraform, Bicep, or AI-assisted infrastructure management.
- You take ownership and communicate clearly, driving projects forward proactively.
- You’re comfortable in Python for scripting and building internal tools.
You'll Stand Out If You Bring
- Experience scaling data acquisition and pipelines (ETL, scraping, feature engineering).
- MLOps/DataOps exposure (Azure ML, Databricks, experiment tracking).
- A track record of improving infrastructure without destabilising live systems.
- The ability to explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders in a clear, pragmatic way.
Practical Requirements
Swiss / EU / EFTA citizenship or a valid Swiss work permit AND availability to work on-site in Zurich (this is not a fully remote role).
This Won't Be Right for You If
- You prefer clean specs over open-ended problems and ownership.
- You want to design systems, but not build and run them.
- You’re only interested in fully remote work.
- You're looking for a slow-moving, highly structured environment.
What You Can Look Forward To
- An inspiring location: Our Zurich HQ is in the historic Villa Windegg in Seefeld—right by the lake and just minutes from Stadelhofen station.
- Flexibility that fits: A 42-hour flexitime week with regular office days and home-office options.
- A team that moves fast: Join a ~30-person international start-up with direct access to the CTO.
- Work with purpose: Contribute to intelligent AI solutions that help industries solve real-world challenges.
- Benefits that support you: 25 vacation days, additional company holidays, full salary continuation during various leaves, and modern workspaces.
What Starts Your Journey With Us
We look forward to seeing how you think, build, and create impact. Please apply online using the form below.
Only applications matching the job profile will be considered.
About Us
We are Orderfox Schweiz AG, based in Zurich—a company that brings together technology, creativity, and industry. With our brands Partfox and Gieni AI, we develop digital solutions that make manufacturing processes smarter, more transparent and future-ready. What drives us is curiosity and the ambition to shape the future of manufacturing. At Orderfox, you will join an international, forward-thinking team where ideas matter, collaboration is key, and every individual has the chance to make an impact. We value creativity, openness, and the courage to innovate—we are looking for people who share this mindset and want to grow with us.
Equal opportunity: We welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of gender, age, origin, sexual orientation, or religion.