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You'll own product outcomes end-to-end while actively building, prototyping, and evolving intelligent systems that solve real business problems.</span></p>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">You'll work closely with engineers, designers, stakeholders, and clients to translate ambiguous, messy, real-world problems into clear product direction and production-ready AI solutions. You won't wait for a well-scoped ticket. You'll walk into ambiguity and create structure through clear thinking and action.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt\">What You'll Do</span><br></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #434343; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt\">Hands-on AI Engineering</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Design, build, and maintain agentic AI systems (multi-step reasoning, tool use, orchestration, memory, autonomy)</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Orchestrate purpose-built agent teams — design how agents coordinate, what information flows where, and how parallel workstreams converge into coherent output</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Design reusable solution patterns — recipes and mapping functions that apply repeatedly within and across problem spaces</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Write clean, production-quality code to implement AI-driven features</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Build prototypes and proof-of-concepts quickly, then harden them for production</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Integrate LLMs, APIs, vector databases, tools, and external systems</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Implement evaluation, monitoring, and iteration strategies for AI systems</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Stay current with emerging AI patterns, frameworks, and best practices — our methods evolve fast, and you'll help shape them</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #434343; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt\">Technical Collaboration</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Work closely with engineers to shape architecture and implementation decisions</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Review code and technical designs with a product-focused mindset</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Balance innovation with maintainability, scalability, and security</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Advocate for responsible, ethical, and user-centred AI usage</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Iterate on plans and ideas in the abstract before dropping into execution — challenge your own framing, stress-test approaches, ask better questions</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt\">What We're Looking For</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #434343; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt\">Core Experience</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Proven experience in AI development </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">3-6 years experience in Engineering or Technical delivery/Software Development </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Engineering degree from any discipline is a major plus — mechanical, civil, electrical, industrial, chemical. Engineering teaches you how to think: systems, first principles, constraints, trade-offs, decomposition. </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Experience in industries where things get built physically: construction, mining, manufacturing, energy, infrastructure. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Strong hands-on software development experience <em>-</em><em> </em>you've built systems that solve real problems, not tutorial projects</span><br></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Exposure to data engineering and ML pipelines, DL environments, including model development workflows and basic MLOps practices (e.g. training, evaluation, and deployment)</span><br></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #434343; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt\">Technical Skills</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Strong programming fundamentals (Python or similar preferred, but demonstrated problem-solving in any modern language)</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Experience building with LLMs and agentic frameworks </span>(e.g. LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, custom agent architectures)</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Experience designing workflows involving: Tool calling and orchestration</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Memory and context management</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Multi-agent or multi-step reasoning</span></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Comfortable with APIs, cloud services, and modern application architectures</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Understanding of software quality, testing, and production readiness</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">AI tooling, agentic workflows, and orchestration patterns are a strong plus — but developable if your foundation and drive are right. 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