Applied AI Principal Engineer — Deployments & Mentorship

V2 AI; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary package

Pick your equipment

Gifted Day Off

Generous parental leave

Well-funded startup environment

Annual training budget

Mentorship program

Clear promotion pathways

Flexible working arrangements

Meet-ups & socials

CSR rating 97%

Job summary

V2 AI is seeking a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer - Applied AI in Brisbane to drive the design, development, and deployment of production-ready AI applications. You will lead full-stack projects using React and Node.js, integrating AI/ML solutions and deploying scalable cloud architectures on AWS.

You will mentor team members, influence technical decisions, and help shape engineering standards across V2 AI while collaborating with product, data, and architecture teams to deliver end-to-end

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering production-ready AI applications.
• Strong leadership and mentorship skills across teams.
• Hands-on full-stack development with React/Node.js and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and deployment of full-stack AI apps using React, Node.js, and AWS.
• Integrate AI/ML solutions, including LLMs and embeddings, into production products.
• Collaborate with product, data, AI, and architecture teams to set scope and strategy.
• Ensure scalable, secure cloud architectures with AWS services like Lambda, SageMaker, Bedrock, ECS/EKS.
• Mentor engineers on best practices and architectural decisions.
• Establish LLMOps workflows: prompts, pipelines, versioning, monitoring, and optimization.
• Work with unstructured data (text, image, video, audio) for AI-driven features.
• Contribute to reusable code libraries and engineering standards.
• Keep up-to-date with AI and full-stack tech and share knowledge internally.

Skills

Full stack development

Leadership

Mentoring

Cloud architectures

AI/ML integration

Team collaboration

Tools

React

Node.js

AWS

LLM integration

Embeddings

MLOps

Job description

V2 AI is seeking a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer - Applied AI in Brisbane to drive the design, development, and deployment of production-ready AI applications. You will lead full-stack projects using React and Node.js, integrating AI/ML solutions and deploying scalable cloud architectures on AWS.

You will mentor team members, influence technical decisions, and help shape engineering standards across V2 AI while collaborating with product, data, and architecture teams to deliver end-to-end