AI Engineer / Co-founder

Have you built and delivered complete products / applications in AI or otherwise Do you want co-founder-level ownership We'd love to talk to you.

About the role

This is not a standard job. It's an invitation to become a Partner and Co-founder, working with Australian founders that have a proven track record in running successful businesses in varied sectors.

Established in 2006, the company now wishes to build the AI Division from the ground up this means you will be hands on in setting engineering standards, making early stack decisions, developing and launching the first product(s) and hiring and managing the AI Tech team.

What's in it for you

• Equity and Cash Compensation:

  You will receive an attractive salary (indexed to A$), plus vesting of meaningful equity.

• Be a Business Contributor

  You will be part of the decision-making team at the highest levels on strategy, tactics and innovation.

• Greenfield Opportunity

  Build a team and lead innovation from day one. Be a part of something big while connected to an international group of businesses with Australian roots.

• Continuous Learning

  - AI is fast moving technology, and we will supplement your own initiative with courses/webinars and the like.

• Travel and Relocation Opportunities

  : Travel to our Australian and Indian hubs. Migration pathway to Australia can also be considered, if desired.

• Additional benefits

  : Medical Insurance, profit share, flexible work arrangements.

Key Requirements:

You must be proficient in either of the lanes mentioned below:

Lane A - AI Product Development and Delivery:

• Delivered an AI/ML feature or product to production with measurable outcomes
• Experienced in LLM, retrieval/RAG, and basic evaluation/guardrails.

Lane B - Systems + AI projects:

• Delivered non-AI production systems (backend/data/distributed) with SLOs/observability.
• Completed credible AI projects (OSS/research/prototypes) showing model use, retrieval and a simple evaluation harness (offline or online).

Mandatory Skills:

• Strong in Python (FastAPI, Pydantic, async) and/or TypeScript/Node; solid engineering fundamentals.
• CI/CD, containers (Docker; K8s or managed), observability (traces/metrics/logs), and cost awareness.
• Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), secrets/KMS, and IaC (Terraform or CDK).
• Clear written communication (ADRs/design notes), pragmatic decision-making, bias to ship.

Desirable Skills:

• Vector DBs (pgvector/FAISS/Milvus), eval/guardrail frameworks (Ragas/DeepEval or equivalent).
• Event-driven design (Kafka/RabbitMQ), caching (Redis).
• GPU-aware inference (vLLM/TGI), Triton, or Ray.

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