Senior AI Engineering Leader — Client-Facing & Scale

Quantium; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Continuous learning

Remote working

Job summary

Quantium is seeking an experienced engineering leader to scale AI transformation for Australia’s largest enterprises. You will coach engineers and leads, shape delivery approaches, and maintain a high engineering bar across client engagements.

Based in Sydney or Melbourne, you’ll work in a dynamic consulting environment, forming teams around client problems and turning insights into production-ready solutions while building repeatable capabilities for future engagements.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering leadership experience with track record of developing engineers and leads.
• Experience in consulting, professional services or client-facing engineering environments.
• Ability to build credibility with senior technical and business stakeholders.
• Strong technical judgement across modern AI and engineering, able to move between context and detail.
• First-principles mindset; adapt approach as needs evolve.
• Experience building capability beyond individual projects, through people, practices or tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of around 10 engineers and leads, coaching and developing people while building leadership capability.
• Guide complex AI transformation engagements, helping clients move from discovery to executable engineering solutions.
• Represent Quantium’s engineering capability with senior clients, providing technical credibility and clear communication.
• Build repeatable consulting engineering capability, turning lessons into methodologies, playbooks and practices.
• Provide technical and architectural judgement across AI, data, platform and application engineering.
• Balance client delivery with long-term capability building, maintaining a high engineering bar.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Consulting experience

Stakeholder management

AI/engineering judgement

First principles

Patterns & tooling

Job description

Quantium is seeking an experienced engineering leader to scale AI transformation for Australia’s largest enterprises. You will coach engineers and leads, shape delivery approaches, and maintain a high engineering bar across client engagements.

Based in Sydney or Melbourne, you’ll work in a dynamic consulting environment, forming teams around client problems and turning insights into production-ready solutions while building repeatable capabilities for future engagements.