Engineering Manager - AI Team

Nuix; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Nuix is building a new AI engineering team in Sydney, leading Enrich and a broader AI mandate across the platform for on‑prem and SaaS deployments. You’ll guide a distributed team across Australia, Ukraine and the US, partnering with a Product Manager and Architecture to shape the roadmap and deliver high‑quality software.

You’ll lead end‑to‑end delivery, ensure team health and implement ways of working that balance Sydney and remote members, while staying technically engaged without being on

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with a track record of moving into leadership roles.
• Proven experience leading geographically distributed, cross‑timezone teams.
• Experience shipping AI features or model‑backed products is a plus.
• Experience delivering products across on‑prem and SaaS/cloud environments (Kubernetes is a bonus).
• Strong delivery management, stakeholder communication and healthy team culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and grow a cross-timezone team (Australia, Ukraine, US).
• Own delivery: plan, prioritise, manage risk, and ship quality software across on‑prem and SaaS.
• Translate strategy into a viable, sequenced AI roadmap with feasibility and trade-offs.
• Establish effective ways of working for a globally distributed team.
• Ensure engineering quality and security outcomes with secure-by-design practices.
• Stay close to technology to review designs and shape technical direction.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed teams

AI/ML product development

Delivery management

Technical design reviews

Education

Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Java

Python

React/TypeScript

Job description

We're on a mission to be a Force For Good, through our People, Products and Purpose at Nuix. Nuix is one of the greatest comeback Technology success stories in Australia, and we're making massive waves each day. Nuix is, and will be, a pioneer in the Australian Technology space, and we're carrying the torch on what "good" looks like.

This extends to our People. We're fiercely passionate, love working at pace, thrive in ambiguity, live, and breathe outside of the box, and above all are good humans. Our impact extends outside of our 9-5, and our place in society isn't always defined by corporate metrics. We're determined to make a positive difference in the world, whether through our solutions which help the top companies, governments and agencies find the truth and combat illegal activities, or through our people who care about contributing and giving back both within, and outside, of Nuix. We are a Force For Good.

We're selective about who comes on board, and you should be too. But if the above sounds like a match, get in touch today and get ready for the possibility of starting a once-in-a-career journey.

Role Overview

We're building a new AI engineering team in Sydney with broad scope across Nuix Neo. This role carries dual responsibility. You’ll own Enrich, our established data-enrichment capability that finds, identifies and codifies information in unstructured documents (named-entity recognition, PII extraction, document-type identification, compound lexeme and skills analysis, and more), combining our own models with off-the-shelf tooling and shipping across on-prem and SaaS. You’ll also lead the team's new and expanding AI mandate in the platform: taking on our broader AI strategy, building out agentic capabilities that will change how our customers work.

You lead this team end-to-end: Sydney engineers alongside experienced engineers and data scientists in Ukraine and the US. You are accountable for delivery across both the existing product and the new AI scope, for team health, and for the ways of working that let a distributed team ship high-quality software across on-prem and SaaS deployments. You'll partner closely with a dedicated Product Manager to shape and sequence the roadmap, and with our Architecture function to keep us moving toward target state. This is a people-leadership role for someone who is technical enough to earn the team's trust and unblock them — without sitting on the delivery critical path themselves.

Location

This position will be based in our Sydney office. The candidate is required to attend the office a minimum of 3 days per week but may voluntarily elect to work either remotely or from the Sydney office for the remaining 2 days of the week.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and grow a cross-timezone team (Australia, Ukraine, US) — hiring, onboarding, career development, performance and day-to-day support.
• Own delivery: Partner with product managers to plan, prioritise, manage risk and dependencies, and provide predictable shipping of quality software across on-prem and SaaS.
• Partner with the Product Manager to translate strategy into a viable, sequenced roadmap; give engineering input on feasibility, effort and trade-offs for AI and agentic initiatives.
• Establish the ways of working that make a globally distributed team effective, protecting a healthy overlap between Sydney and remote members.
• Be accountable for engineering quality and security outcomes — code and vulnerability scan reports addressed continuously, secure-by-design practices upheld.
• Stay close enough to the technology to review designs, contribute to technical direction and support development — without being on the delivery critical path.

Skills, Knowledge And Expertise

• At least 10 years' experience in software engineering, with a strong hands‑on foundation before moving into leadership.
• Proven engineering management experience is essential, including leading geographically distributed, cross‑timezone teams.
• Any experience managing an AI / ML product development team is favourable— familiarity with the realities of shipping AI features, agents or model-backed products.
• Experience delivering products across both on‑prem and SaaS/cloud (ideally Kubernetes‑based) is desirable.
• Technically credible across a modern stack (Java, Python, React/TypeScript) — enough to guide design and quality conversations and give useful code‑review feedback, without needing to be the strongest coder in the room.
• Strong track record in delivery management, stakeholder communication and building high‑performing, healthy team cultures.
• Familiarity with document‑intelligence, NLP or data‑enrichment domains is a plus.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Nuix is an equal opportunities employer. Don’t let imposter syndrome hold you back! We welcome all applications and are a flexible employer.

We strive to make any required adjustments where possible to make the process fair and equitable for everyone. If you need any accommodations throughout the interview process, please note this in your job application.

Nuix is on an incredible journey of transformation, aligning our strengths with our ambitions to pursue greater opportunities. To find out more about who we are and what we are doing, please visit our web page.

https://www.nuix.com/

As we expand our global team and extend our skills and expertise, we are unified as one Nuix team guided by our shared values.

Nuix Vision

Finding Truth in a Digital World.

Nuix Mission Statement

Nuix creates innovative software that empowers organizations to simply and quickly find the truth from any data in a digital world. We are a passionate and talented team, delighting our customers with software that transforms data into actionable intelligence.

Nuix Values

• TAKE OWNERSHIP
• RESILIENT
• UNAFRAID
• TEAM NUIX
• HERO OUR CUSTOMERS

We believe in these principles and seek to weave them into the fabric of our daily work at Nuix. In doing so, we co-create a dynamic and purposeful company culture that we can be proud of and want to belong to.

• Nuix is an Equal Opportunity Employer**