Applied Computing was founded in 2023 to build Orbital, a physics-informed foundation model for energy operations. We’re live across oil and gas, refineries, and petrochemicals, working towards our mission: sustainable abundance for a growing planet.
The hydrocarbon industry keeps the world running. But its complexity has left operators tied to legacy systems, making critical decisions on less than 10% of available data. We built Orbital to change that. It’s a foundation model built specifically for energy that lets companies use AI at scale, harnessing all of their operational data and optimising in real time for any metric. Decisions get faster, operations get safer, and carbon intensity falls.
We’ve raised over $32 million, including one of the largest seed rounds for an AI company in the UK. We’re just getting started
We’re looking for a People Partner to join our People team and help us build the foundations we need for our next stage of growth. This isn’t a role where everything is already built. You’ll partner with managers and leaders on their teams and people challenges, while also getting involved in building and improving the People practices we need as we scale.
You’ll work closely with the Head of Talent Experience, who will set the overall People direction and priorities and frameworks. You’ll help turn those priorities into practical solutions, taking ownership of projects and pieces of work and making sure they work in practice.There will be a lot of autonomy. You’ll have support, context and guidance, but we’ll expect you to be comfortable taking something on, working through the detail and moving it forward without needing step-by-step direction.
You’ll also get broad exposure to what it takes to scale a company. This is a great opportunity for someone who already has solid HR foundations and wants to broaden their experience, learn quickly and take on increasing levels of ownership.
You don’t need to have done everything before. We’re looking for someone curious, pragmatic and comfortable figuring things out, who knows when to run with something and when to ask for support.
Partner with managers and leaders. Support them across performance, development, team effectiveness, organisation changes and day-to-day people topics.
Build and improve People practices. Take ownership of defined projects and workstreams across areas such as onboarding, performance, talent, manager capability and engagement.
Get stuck in. We’re a small, growing company. You’ll be comfortable getting into the detail, writing the first draft, fixing something that isn’t working or picking up something that needs doing.
Most importantly, you’re excited by the opportunity to learn through building. You’ll get exposure to a broad range of People work and the chance to take meaningful ownership, while working closely with an experienced People team as Applied Computing grow
