Founding AI Engineer - Build & Deploy Live Agents

LK Group (Melbourne); City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy and ownership

Exposure to diverse business units

Founding Group AI team

Full-time, Monday to Friday

Competitive salary

Job summary

LK Group (Melbourne) is building a dedicated AI team to design, deploy, and operate AI agents and automation pipelines at scale. You’ll own end-to-end delivery from concept to live production across diverse portfolio businesses.

The role emphasizes real-world impact, production-grade systems, and a founding team mentality. Candidates should bring 3+ years of software development and hands-on AI deployment know-how.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in software development.
• Proven hands-on experience building and deploying AI systems.
• Experience integrating large language models into real applications.
• Prominent tooling for automation and data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy AI agents and automation pipelines that grow revenue and save real time.
• Create and maintain AI workflows across LK Group’s portfolio.
• Test agents in real business scenarios and fix edge cases before go-live.
• Monitor performance, latency, and reliability of AI systems.
• Document architecture, APIs, and workflows clearly.

Skills

Software development

AI systems engineering

Prompt engineering

Engineering judgement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Claude Code

Gemma 4

Perplexity

LangChain

OpenClaw

PowerAutomate

n8n

Zapier

REST APIs

Job description

LK Group (Melbourne) is building a dedicated AI team to design, deploy, and operate AI agents and automation pipelines at scale. You’ll own end-to-end delivery from concept to live production across diverse portfolio businesses.

The role emphasizes real-world impact, production-grade systems, and a founding team mentality. Candidates should bring 3+ years of software development and hands-on AI deployment know-how.