Applied AI Forward-Deployed Engineer: Build Production AI

V2 Digital; Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Equipment provided

VersionUp Day

Parental leave

Startup culture

Training budget

Mentorship

Promotion pathway

Flexible work

Meetups

CSR rating

Job summary

V2 AI is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer of Applied AI to design and build agentic AI system components embedded in customer environments.

You will work closely with Product Owners, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to turn ambiguous objectives into deployed, production-ready AI solutions, owning quality and observability in production. You will review colleagues' work, contribute to IaC/CI/CD, and help shape architecture and technical standards.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and building agentic AI systems.
• Ownership of production quality and observability.
• Ability to review and mentor other engineers on technical standards.
• Clear communication to technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery of AI and software components you design and build within customer engagements.
• Partner with customer Product Owners and stakeholders to turn loosely specified problems into deliverable solutions.
• Understand how your technical solutions impact the business and spot new opportunities within accounts.
• Contribute to the design and build of agentic AI systems, including multi-agent orchestration, tools, and memory management.
• Choose the right pattern for each problem, rather than defaulting to a standard approach.
• Own evaluation for what you build, with eval suites covering expected, edge, and adversarial cases run continuously.
• Instrument components to monitor agent behaviour, cost, and latency in production, and use observability to diagnose and fix failures.
• Contribute to infrastructure as code and CI/CD practices that get work into production.
• Support pre-sales activity and actively contribute to architectural conversations, following V2 AI’s Technical Consulting Tenets.
• Estimate technical effort for familiar work, contribute to project meetings, and clearly communicate status, risks, and blockers.
• Guide and upskill engineers on technical standards, and review their work with constructive feedback.
• Contribute to V2 AI accelerators, share your work through lightning talks and demos, and represent V2 AI in the community.

Skills

AI engineering

Software development

CI/CD

IaC

Observability

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Job description

V2 AI is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer of Applied AI to design and build agentic AI system components embedded in customer environments.

You will work closely with Product Owners, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to turn ambiguous objectives into deployed, production-ready AI solutions, owning quality and observability in production. You will review colleagues' work, contribute to IaC/CI/CD, and help shape architecture and technical standards.