At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team to build innovative AI solutions while staying hands-on with coding.
- Company: Join a well-known Australian brand making waves in the AI space.
- Benefits: Competitive salary of $190k + super, plus opportunities for growth.
- Other info: Dynamic environment with a focus on innovation and team collaboration.
- Why this job: Step into a leadership role and shape the future of AI technology.
- Qualifications: 7+ years in software engineering with strong Python and cloud experience.
The predicted salary is between 190000 - 190000 $ per year.
Excellent opportunity for seasoned AI Engineer from a software background to move into a leadership position in a large Australian enterprise.
About the role
A large, well known Australian brand is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead their AI Engineering function. This is an excellent opportunity for someone that has come from a hands-on software engineering background and is ready to step up into leadership whilst maintaining hands-on engineering work. Deep AI/software experience is important.
What you'll be doing:
- Building agentic AI solutions; you need to have a strong hands-on engineering background.
- Leading a team of AI Engineers.
- Setting the software engineering standard for the team: code quality, testing, CI/CD, system design and clean architecture.
- Enforcing engineering rigour through hands-on code reviews, architecture decisions and technical design sessions.
- Owning the technical architecture of AI powered systems and balancing pragmatic delivery with long term maintainability.
- Owning production stability, monitoring and incident management for systems running across cloud infrastructure.
- Removing blockers and keeping the team shipping consistently, including improving Agile/Scrum practices.
- Staying hands-on: writing, reviewing and improving code alongside the team.
This role is not a fit for:
- Data Scientists or ML researchers focused on model building, experimentation or statistical modelling.
- Candidates without hands-on software engineering or coding experience.
What we're looking for:
- 7+ years of commercial software engineering experience with a track record of shipping and operating production systems.
- Strong Python skills.
- Experience designing and building backend systems and APIs with solid software architecture fundamentals.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Experience with containerisation (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
- Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and modern delivery practices.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling such as Terraform.
Nice to haves:
- Experience building applications with LLMs or agentic AI frameworks.
- Familiarity with RAG, vector databases or embedding models.
- Prior experience in a media, publishing or digital content organisation.
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