Engineering Manager - AI About the role A large, well known Australian brand is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead their AI Engineering function. This is an excellent prospect for someone that has come from a hands-on software engineering background and is ready to step up the leadership whilst maintaining hands-on engineerinng work. Deep AI/software experience is key.

What you'll be doing
Building agentic AI solutions, you need to have a solid hands-on engineering background
Leading a team of AI Engineers
Setting the software engineering standard for the team: code quality, testing, CI/CD, system design and clean architecture
Enforcing engineering rigour through hands on code reviews, architecture decisions and technical design sessions
Owning the technical architecture of AI powered systems and balancing pragmatic delivery with long term maintainability
Owning production stability, monitoring and incident management for systems running across cloud infrastructure
Removing blockers and keeping the team shipping consistently, including improving Agile/Scrum practices
Staying hands on: writing,



reviewing and improving code alongside the team

This role is not a fit for:
Data Scientists or ML researchers focused on model building, experimentation or statistical modelling
Candidates without hands-on software engineering or coding experience

What we're looking for
7 years of commercial software engineering experience with a track record of shipping and operating production systems
Strong Python skills
Experience designing and building backend systems and APIs with solid software architecture fundamentals
Hands on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Experience with containerisation (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and modern delivery practices
Experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling such as Terraform

Nice to haves
Experience building applications with LLMs or agentic AI frameworks
Familiarity with RAG, vector databases or embedding models
Prior experience in a media, publishing or digital content organisation

📌 Engineering Manager Ai + Super Sydney (Australia)
🏢 Pathway Search
📍 Australia