Head of Engineering

Enterprise AI Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 220,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary A$220–260k

Equity 1%+ vesting

Partner-level role

AI-native team

Direct influence over product

Job summary

Enterprise AI Group, based in Sydney, is seeking an experienced hands-on leader to build and ship products with AI agents. You’ll stay in the code, review work, and run a hybrid team of engineers and AI agents focused on delivering fabulous product, quickly.

You’ll own technical direction, mentor the team across Sydney, Manila, and New York, and partner with the founder on product strategy and key client engagements. Equity opportunities accompany this role.

Qualifications

• 8–15 years in software engineering with startup experience.
• Still coding and reviewing PRs.
• Experience with AI agents such as Claude Code or Cursor.
• Led a team from inside the codebase.
• Strong product instinct.
• Comfortable working across time zones from Sydney.

Responsibilities

• Stay hands-on and code with AI agents weekly.
• Know the architecture cold and review others' work.
• Lead a hybrid team of engineers and AI agents.
• Set technical direction and ship four times a week.
• Collaborate with the founder on product strategy and client engagements.

Skills

Hands-on coding

AI agents experience

Architecture understanding

Startup experience

Leadership from code

Product instinct

Cross-time-zone collaboration

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Custom agent pipelines

Job description

A hands-on player-coach role: lead a human + AI-agent engineering team, stay in the code, ship fabulous product. Sydney-based, global team, real equity.

WHO WE ARE

Enterprise AI is a Sydney startup helping organisations put AI to work — properly. We're a small, sharp team across Sydney, Manila and New York, and we build the way we tell our clients to: AI agents do a large share of the engineering work, and humans direct, review and ship.

THE ROLE

The role You'll own how we build — as a player-coach, not a people-manager-only. You'll code with AI every week, know our architecture cold, and stay close enough to the codebase to review anyone's work. And you'll run a hybrid team of engineers and AI agents, judged on one thing: fabulous product, out the door, fast.

YOU WILL

• Stay hands-on — build with AI coding agents yourself, know the architecture and the code, and never lose touch with how the product actually works
• Talk with your team daily — across Sydney, Manila and New York — to understand what everyone is building, unblock them, and connect the pieces
• Continuously improve our engineering processes — code quality, deployments, product functionality, agent orchestration, code review, evals, CI/CD, and quality gates that let a small team ship like a big one
• Lead, motivate and grow the team — coaching, celebrating, and raising the bar
• Set technical direction and architecture for our enterprise AI products
• Ship four times a week — and make shipping feel great for the team
• Work directly with the founder on product strategy and key client engagements

YOU

• 8–15 years in software engineering, with real startup experience — you have shipped under constraints and worn many hats
• Still coding, and proud of it — you review PRs, dive into the architecture, and would never lead from a slide deck
• Already working with AI agents doing substantial engineering work, such as Claude Code, Cursor or custom agent pipelines — and you have opinions about their failure modes
• You have led a team and loved the leading part — but you lead from inside the codebase, not above it
• Strong product instinct — you argue about what to build, not just how to build it
• Comfortable leading across time zones; based in Sydney and happy working mostly in-person with the Sydney team

WHAT WE OFFER

• A$220–260k base + superannuation
• Meaningful equity: 1%+, 4-year vesting — this is a partner-level role, and the package reflects it
• A team that's already AI-native — no legacy culture to fight
• Direct influence over product, company direction and how the team grows