Engineering Manager (AI)
On-siteNorth Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
EXPIREDNorth Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaOn-siteFull TimeLarge
Full TimeLarge
Job Summary
Lead Nine's AI Engineering function by driving software engineering standards across build, deployment, and operation of production AI products. Mentor and grow a high-performing ML and AI engineering team while establishing benchmarks for clean architecture, CI/CD, and system design through hands-on code reviews. Own technical architecture for AI-powered systems on GCP and AWS, ensuring operational stability, incident management, and high availability for customer-facing applications. Optimise Agile/Scrum workflows to remove blockers and keep the team shipping high-quality software consistently.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of commercial software engineering experience
- Proven track record of shipping and operating production systems
- 3+ years in a technical leadership or engineering management role
- Demonstrated experience mentoring and growing engineers
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Familiarity with Go
- Experience designing and building backend systems and APIs
- Solid grounding in software architecture principles
- Hands-on experience with GCP and/or AWS cloud platforms
- Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or OpenTofu)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- Right to lawfully work and live in Australia
Desired Qualifications
- Experience building applications with LLMs
- Experience with agentic AI frameworks
- Experience with RAG
- Experience with vector databases
- Experience with embedding models
- Exposure to Google Cloud AI services (Vertex AI, Agent Runtime)
- Exposure to MLOps practices
- Exposure to multi-modal AI systems
- Containerisation and orchestration experience using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS or GKE)
- Prior experience in a media, publishing, or digital content organisation
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