Careers/Open role ContractMelbourne (mostly on-site, some remote) $900–1,200/day AI Engineer (mid-level) Melbourne-based engineer pairing with our senior on AI implementation work. Real client systems, real production code, real responsibility — without needing to lead the room yet.

About The Role This is the second engineering seat on RYB client work. You'll pair with the AI-Ops Engineer and Tom on actual client engagements — building the integrations, agentic workflows, and data pipelines that turn the AI strategy into a working system. You're not expected to lead the room with the client.

You're expected to ship clean code, ask sharp questions, and be the person the senior engineer trusts to take a chunk of the work and run with it. A Typical Week Pair-coding sessions with the senior on the trickier integration work

Independent work blocks delivering well-scoped pieces — a Lambda, a HubSpot workflow, a data pipeline

1–2 days at a client site observing the people who'll use what you build

Code review + documentation — every system we build outlives us, so we write code other people can maintain

Internal R&D; on the brain — RYB's own internal mission-control system that ships agents, integrations, and tooling What we're looking for 2–4 years building production software in TypeScript/Node, Python, or similar

AWS Developer Associate certification (or equivalent depth — we'll test for the depth, not just the badge)

Practical experience with Claude or OpenAI APIs — built at least one production system using LLMs, comfortable with prompt engineering, tool use, and basic agentic patterns

Ideally: AWS CDK, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, API Gateway





Comfortable being directed by a senior engineer — confident enough to push back when you see a better path, humble enough to drop it when overruled

Melbourne-based with right to work in Australia

Bonus: experience with HubSpot, Monday.com, or similar mid-market SaaS APIs How we work Client-first — when there's client work happening, the client's calendar wins

Pair on hard things; ship solo on the rest

Markdown-first; Mermaid for diagrams

Honest assessments over polished pitches — read the forms paradox and shadow AI for the flavour

Code review is non-optional and not a status game What we offer Day rate at the upper end of the AU mid-level contractor band

Pairing with a senior engineer who actually teaches (not someone who just delegates the boring parts)

Real production responsibility — your code runs in client environments people actually use

Mix of clients across financial services, qualified services, real estate, mid-market manufacturing

Pipeline currently supports 2–3 days/week ongoing How to apply Apply Through This Page.

Tell Us The hardest production system you've worked on and what your specific contribution was

One LLM-powered thing you've shipped (a prototype is fine; production is better)

Your AWS cert + a link to one piece of work you're proud of (repo, write-up, demo)

What you most want to learn from working with a more senior engineer CV optional but appreciated.

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