FDE - 160k-220k + Super + Equity
Melbourne

Full description

Company overview

An early-stage Melbourne AI company with a small but powerful team and a customer list most startups would envy, including Google and Canva. Their product is a live conversational agent that guides users through software in real time. It's in production now, and the roadmap is growing quick. Founders are in the room, decisions are quick, and what you see in the field shapes what gets built next.

Role and responsibilities

This is a hands-on, customer-facing engineering role. You'll take a recent customer from kickoff to live, working with their product and growth teams to define what success looks like, then building the agent behaviour and integration to deliver it. After launch, you'll dig into usage data and conversations to show the impact and recommend what to improve. You'll tune live voice and screen behaviour once real users get hold of it, and build internal tooling so each rollout is faster than the last.



Large customers bring security reviews, multiple stakeholders and edge cases, and you'll keep everything moving. Your learnings go straight back into the core product.

Key technical skills
Engineer at heart, comfortable across the stack
Robust customer-facing skills, equally at ease with a client's product leads and a codebase
Hands-on experience building with LLMs and agentic systems
Solutions engineering, implementation, technical consulting or prior FDE background is a big plus
Able to turn an ambiguous problem into a working prototype, then a polished release
Stack includes WebRTC, Kubernetes, TypeScript, Svelte, Python and GCP, but sharp generalists are welcome

Location and package

Melbourne CBD. In office 4 days a week, with occasional customer visits. $160k to $220k plus super plus equity.
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