Senior AI Engineer — Enrich & Agents (Hybrid Sydney)

Nuix; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Nuix in Sydney is growing an AI engineering team and seeks a Senior Software Engineer to own features from design to delivery. You’ll contribute across Java, Spring, React/TypeScript, Python and DevOps practices, with an emphasis on secure, scalable solutions in a distributed team.

You will mentor junior engineers, participate in architecture discussions, and help shape AI agent capabilities in the Nuix Neo platform. This role is based in Sydney with a hybrid work pattern.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• 7+ years' software engineering experience with a track record of end-to-end delivery.
• Strong backend Java with Spring; React/TypeScript experience also valued.
• Python exposure and comfort working with model-backed components.
• Experience with containerised, cloud and on-prem delivery (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS).
• Interest or experience in AI/LLM-backed features, agents or NLP/document-intelligence domains is desirable.
• Recognised as a subject-matter expert and a clear communicator in a distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of significant features and epics — design, build, test and ship.
• Bring greater awareness of non-functional requirements (security, performance, DevOps) and ensure architecture principles are followed.
• Provide thoughtful, pragmatic code review on complex PRs, capturing security concerns and ensuring secure-by-design practices.
• Set and refine code best practices; help maintain and improve QA gates.
• Be active in architecture discussions — asking questions, challenging approaches, contributing to target state.
• Drive collaboration within the team and communicate effectively across teams and geographies.
• Mentor and support mid-level, associate and graduate engineers.
• Contribute to how we design, evaluate and ship AI agents and agentic capability in the platform.

Skills

Java backend

Spring framework

React/TypeScript

Python

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

AI/LLM features

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Nuix in Sydney is growing an AI engineering team and seeks a Senior Software Engineer to own features from design to delivery. You’ll contribute across Java, Spring, React/TypeScript, Python and DevOps practices, with an emphasis on secure, scalable solutions in a distributed team.

You will mentor junior engineers, participate in architecture discussions, and help shape AI agent capabilities in the Nuix Neo platform. This role is based in Sydney with a hybrid work pattern.