Technical Lead — Fleet Management & Autonomous Haulage | Brisbane

Here's the puzzle: a real-time platform that's been running mine sites for decades — trucks, shovels, drills, all coordinated live — now also has to run autonomous trucks, in the same pit as human-driven ones, at sites with high-availability contracts where downtime costs real money.

You can't take it offline to fix it. You can't experiment carelessly — these are safety-critical systems with physical consequences. And it's yours to harden.

This is a hands-on Lead role — you'll be in the code, in the incident, in the RCA, not just directing traffic from a distance.

What you'd actually be doing:
Personally leading the technical response on customer-blocking defects in a live, decades-old C++/C# codebase — diagnosis, containment, root cause, systemic fix
Running RCAs and FMEAs to find the weak points before they find you, and teaching that methodology to the wider team
Building our client's support systems from reactive to proactive — current tooling, current processes, real data instrumentation to prove it's working




Integrating AI into support workflows — genuinely open, high-leverage territory, not a checkbox
Owning technical decisions under pressure, across a broad stack (C++/C#, moving toward Python and Kubernetes) — depth where it counts, breadth to pick up the rest

Why it's worth your time: This isn't a six-month fix. It's a multi-year, systemic hardening effort on infrastructure running mine sites globally — the kind of problem that rewards someone who actually wants to sit with complexity rather than patch around it. Autonomous trucks are in production now . The stakes are real, and so is the latitude to solve it properly — hands-on, not from the sidelines.

Brisbane-based, hybrid (2 days in-office), 9-day fortnight, on-call uplift when you're on the roster.

If this sounds like your kind of challenge, send your CV - let's talk.
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📌 Technical Lead Brisbane
🏢 Smart Technology Recruitment
📍 Brisbane