Job Description
Location: Full time · Sydney, Australia (or Remote with travel)
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You ship AI in the real world — not the demo
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Most engineers build products and hand them off. You stay until they work. As a Forward Deployed Engineer at THE ****, you'll embed directly with our clients — Fortune 500s, high-growth startups, VC-backed companies — and own the technical delivery of AI products inside their organizations. You're not a consultant who writes decks. You write code, debug integrations, and make judgment calls that move the product forward.
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What you'll do
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You'll work embedded in client teams — typically 4–12 weeks per engagement — building, configuring, and stabilizing AI-powered products. Day to day that means:
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Designing and shipping RAG pipelines, AI agents, and LLM integrations tailored to the client's data and workflows
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Translating vague business requirements into working systems — fast
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Debugging production issues under pressure, on-site, with stakeholders watching
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Training client engineers and teams on how to operate and extend what you've built
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Acting as the technical voice of THE **** in the room — credible, direct, and clear
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What we're looking for
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You've shipped software in production. You know how messy real enterprise data is. You're comfortable being the smartest person in the room and also admitting what you don't know.
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Must have:
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4+ years of software engineering experience
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Hands-on experience building with LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, etc.) — prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, evals
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Strong Python; proficiency in at least one cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure)
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Ability to travel to client sites ******%)
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Excellent communication — you can explain a vector database to a CFO and a token budget to a junior dev
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Nice to have:
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Experience with enterprise data stacks (Snowflake, Databricks, dbt)
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Background in a Big 4, Palantir, or other client-embedded technical role
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Startup experience — you've had to build things before the requirements were clear
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Why THE ****
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We're an AI-native product development company with 75 engineers, 18 AI specialists, and a track record of building real products for companies like UFC, Toyota, Freyr Energy, and Kindly Human. We don't do staff augmentation — we build, and we own outcomes.
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Build with us.
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You'll work on real AI products — not proofs of concept that die in a slide deck. Every engagement ships something that matters.
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Launch with us.
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You'll be in the room when products go live, owning the technical outcome alongside the client. No handoffs. No hiding behind a project manager.
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Grow with us.
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You'll work across industries and problem spaces that most engineers never see. We invest in your learning — with dedicated time, budget, and a team of 18 AI specialists to learn from.
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Offices in Dallas, TX · Perth, AU · Stuttgart, DE
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Competitive salary + performance bonus
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Full benefits
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Dedicated time and budget for your own AI learning and side experiments
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Apply
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We'd love to hear from you. Tell us about a technical problem you solved that required both engineering and communication to get right.

📌 Forward Deployed Engineer (New South Wales)
🏢 THE 8800
📍 New South Wales