About Coco Republic

Coco Republic is a premier design destination, known for curating interiors that exude timeless elegance, sophistication, and effortless style. With showrooms across Australia and Recent Zealand, our brand is synonymous with timeless design, impeccable service, and beautifully crafted furniture. While we are deeply proud of our products, it is our people who bring the Coco Republic experience to life - a collective of passionate, creative, and driven individuals who inspire our clients every day.

Our Technology & Digital team is small and people own outcomes end to end and work directly with the teams they build for.

About the role

This is a forward deployed engineering role. Half your time is spent with our showroom, distribution centre and support office teams, working out what is worth building. The other half is building it properly and running it in production.

You embed with a business team for a few weeks at a time. You learn how the work is really done, find where AI or automation would save time or money, and deliver a working solution. Then you measure what it saved and move to the next team.

You do your own discovery. Nobody hands you a finished specification, and nobody else builds your recommendations for you.

What you build has to last. That means solutions that are designed, tested, documented and secure, and that someone else can support after you move on. AI coding tools are welcome here, provided you can explain and stand behind every line they write for you.

What you'll do

- Sit with teams across merchandising, ecommerce, logistics, showrooms, customer care and finance to map how work is done and where it can be improved.
- Keep a ranked list of opportunities, each sized by effort and expected return, and agree priorities with leadership.
- Design and build AI-assisted workflows, automations and integrations on our Microsoft, integration and business platforms.
- Put solutions into production with monitoring, error handling, documentation and a clear support handover.
- Follow sound engineering practice:



source control, testing, separate environments, peer review and secure handling of customer and business data.
- Measure every solution against a baseline and report the hours and cost it recovered.
- Help the business adopt AI safely, in line with our AI usage policies.
- Work with our Business Analyst, Head of Enterprise Applications & Integration and external delivery partners.

What this role is not

- Not remote. The work happens beside the people who use what you build.
- Not a research or machine learning role. You apply existing AI platforms to business problems. You do not train models.
- Not a prototyping role. Demos and proofs of concept do not count. Solutions in production do.
- Not a strategy or analyst role. You build what you recommend.
- Not IT support. Helpdesk, incidents and platform administration sit with other teams.

Who you are

Essential

- You have built automation or AI solutions that are in production today and that people rely on which you can demonstrate to us.
- You are good with people. You can sit with a warehouse team or a showroom manager, earn their trust and turn what they tell you into something to build. We weight this as heavily as technical skill.
- You have run discovery yourself, through workshops, shadowing and process mapping, in a business analyst, consulting, solutions engineering or similar role.
- You have strong software engineering fundamentals. You can read, debug and critically assess code, including AI-generated code, and you know what separates a prototype from a production system.
- You document your work so that others can support it.




- You have hands-on experience with Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot Studio, an integration platform (Boomi preferred), REST APIs, and Python or JavaScript.
- You have built with large language model APIs, including tool use and agent patterns, on real business data.

Highly regarded

- Retail, ecommerce or supply chain experience, particularly with ERP, point of sale, product information or warehouse systems.
- Experience in an embedded, forward deployed or consulting delivery model.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Fabric or similar data platforms.

Why join Coco Republic

- A newly created role with a clear mandate and direct access to the executive team
- Your work is used by the people sitting next to you, and its value is reported to the board
- Competitive remuneration package
- Leave on your birthday – because your special day matters.
- Ongoing learning and career development, including access to the Coco Republic Academy
- Work with cutting-edge AI technologies in a role with genuine autonomy and influence
- Hybrid working environment with exposure across our support office, showrooms and distribution centre
- Generous product discounts for you and your loved ones
- A warm, collaborative culture where innovation, creativity and excellence thrive
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program, anytime you need it
- Paid parental leave and a genuine commitment to work-life balance

What to expect As part of the selection process, you'll have the opportunity to demonstrate your approach to solving real business challenges, including how you identify opportunities, engage with stakeholders and translate ideas into practical, measurable solutions. This will include conversations with our Technology & Digital team and senior business leaders.

Coco Republic provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

📌 AI & Automation Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 Coco Republic
📍 Sydney