Senior AI Engineer in Sydney

About Paradino

Paradino is transforming financial advice through AI and automation. Our platform, powered by Athena, helps advice businesses automate critical parts of the advice process so they can spend less time on administration and more time supporting their clients. We’re a small team with a big ambition: helping advice businesses work smarter and scale more effectively. Backed by Netwealth, we’re accelerating the next stage of our growth while staying focused on building great technology, solving real industry challenges and delivering meaningful outcomes for our customers. If you’re looking for a role where you’ll have ownership, impact and the opportunity to help shape what’s next, we’d love to hear from you.

About the opportunity

As our first dedicated AI Engineer, you’ll play a key role in shaping the future of Paradino’s platform. Working closely with our founders and engineering team, you’ll take ownership of the systems and patterns that power our AI capabilities and help define how we build products in an AI-first company. This is a hands‑on role where you’ll work across agent design, evaluation frameworks, regulatory grounding, prompt engineering and product development. You’ll have the opportunity to solve complex problems in a highly regulated environment, helping advisers produce better outcomes through technology that’s trusted, reliable and scalable. We’re still a small team, which means you’ll have significant ownership, direct access to decision‑makers and genuine influence over both the technical direction of the platform and the way we work as a business.

About you

You’re an engineer who enjoys building, experimenting and solving real‑world problems. You bring strong backend engineering capability and have experience building and deploying AI‑powered products in production environments. You’ve worked with large language models beyond prototypes and understand the challenges of reliability, evaluation and scale. You’ll bring:

• Strong experience building and shipping production‑grade AI applications.
• Deep knowledge of modern LLMs, agent architectures and AI tooling.
• Strong Python skills and the ability to work across the broader technology stack.
• Experience designing evaluation frameworks and measuring AI performance in production.
• A practical understanding of RAG patterns, retrieval strategies and model optimisation.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex concepts clearly.

Most importantly, you’ll be excited by the opportunity to build something from the ground up, work closely with experienced founders and help solve meaningful challenges in an industry where accuracy, trust and quality matter.

Life at Paradino

Paradino is still early in its journey, which means there’s plenty of opportunity to contribute, take ownership and make an impact. We’re a small team that works closely together, moves quickly and focuses on solving real problems for advisers and their clients. You’ll work directly with experienced founders, have visibility across the business and be trusted to make a meaningful contribution from day one. Like any growing company, not everything is fully built. Priorities can shift, roles can evolve and you’ll often be working through new challenges. For the right person, that’s part of the attraction. If you’re looking for a highly structured environment with layers of process and hierarchy, Paradino probably isn’t the right fit. If you’re energised by ownership, collaboration and helping build what comes next, we’d love to hear from you.