Lead AI Engineer — AI‑First, Hybrid (Perth)

Horizon Digital; Perth; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Horizon Digital in Perth, WA, seeks a Lead AI Engineer to take technical ownership of one or more engineering teams, delivering AI and software for a range of clients. You will set technical direction, coach teams, and champion AI-assisted development. The role suits someone who shapes how a team works, not just their output.

You will report to the Technology Manager and work with engineers delivering production systems for flagship clients. Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 from home, flexible hours.

Qualifications

• Proven people leadership with performance reviews
• Hands-on experience Python, TypeScript, React, and AWS with Terraform
• Experience with React Native, Flutter or PHP
• CI/CD, automated testing, linting and monitoring as standard practice
• AI-first practice with embedding AI across teams
• Defined and rolled out AI coding standards and rule files
• Owned agentic systems in production and ensured reliability
• Credible, calm in front of Tier One clients with agile delivery knowledge
• Experience running a hiring loop
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP or others) and native mobile (Swift/Kotlin)

Responsibilities

• Lead one or more engineering teams, owning technical direction and final accountability for estimates
• Coach and grow your team through review, pairing and direct guidance, and run their objectives and performance reviews
• Settle architecture, security, tooling and deployment early in the engagement, and make the final technical call
• Contribute production code and hold your teams to our standards on code review, testing, CI/CD and monitoring
• Drive adoption of AI assisted development and agentic systems, and act as the quality gate on shared skills and libraries
• Act as the senior technical voice with clients, from requirements through delivery, and protect the relationship when things go wrong

Skills

People leadership

Python

TypeScript

React

AWS

CI/CD

AI governance

Agile delivery

Client management

Tools

Terraform

React Native

Flutter

PHP

AWS Cloud

GCP

Job description

Horizon Digital in Perth, WA, seeks a Lead AI Engineer to take technical ownership of one or more engineering teams, delivering AI and software for a range of clients. You will set technical direction, coach teams, and champion AI-assisted development. The role suits someone who shapes how a team works, not just their output.

You will report to the Technology Manager and work with engineers delivering production systems for flagship clients. Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 from home, flexible hours.