11th September, ****
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 opportunity 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 important.
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 - $190K + Super - Sydney
🏢 Pathway Search
📍 Sydney