Senior Data & AI Engineer

Sharon AI, Inc; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Birthday leave

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Learning & development

Novated leasing

Employee referral rewards

Employee of the month

Global expansion exposure

Impactful work

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Sharon AI is seeking a senior Data & AI Engineer to design and ship data pipelines, models and agents end-to-end on our governed platform. You will set high code quality standards and mentor other engineers while tackling complex, open-ended challenges and turning them into reliable, reusable components.

You will lead ingestion and transformation workflows, build AI workflows, ensure observability, and collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable data solutions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in data or software engineering, with recent production work on AI or LLM systems.
• Strong Python and SQL, and hands-on experience with modern data tooling (Databricks, dbt, Spark, Kafka, Airflow or Fivetran) on a major cloud.
• Experience building with LLM APIs and agent frameworks, including tool use, retrieval and evaluation.
• Solid engineering practice: version control, CI/CD, testing and infrastructure as code.
• The judgment to choose the simplest thing that works, and to explain trade-offs to non-engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design and build ingestion, transformation and serving pipelines from internal systems and delivery partners into our lakehouse.
• Build agents and AI workflows on our governed platform: tool use, retrieval over structured and unstructured data, and orchestration.
• Build evaluation and observability into everything you ship so you can trace and audit every agent’s actions.
• Contribute to the core data model and the agent tool layer, building components once so many teams can reuse them.
• Lead technical design on initiatives, review code, and raise the team’s engineering standards.
• Work directly with business stakeholders to understand the process before you build.
• Mentor Data & AI Engineers.

Skills

Python

SQL

LLM APIs

Agent frameworks

Code quality

Tools

Databricks

dbt

Spark

Kafka

Airflow

Fivetran

Job description

Sharon AI is a Nasdaq-listed, sovereign AI infrastructure platform serving Australia, New Zealand and the wider APAC region. We design, build and operate AI Factories at scale, with hundreds of megawatts of capacity and tens of thousands of GPUs coming online for some of the world’s leading AI companies. We move at startup speed, with the responsibilities of a listed company.

About the Data & AI team

We are building a small, hands-on team that makes Sharon AI faster and right the first time. Our job is to turn data and AI into outcomes the business can feel: bringing world-class AI capacity to customers faster, running the business with precision at scale, and getting things right early, when it counts most.

We do this by building:

• One data foundation that our teams and delivery partners feed into.
• AI agents behind every role, so people make better decisions faster and spend their time on the work that matters most.
• Automation of repetitive work as the business moves from build to run.
• Governed end-to-end processes, owned by accountable business leaders and run by agents and people together.

How we work

Our guiding principle is better, faster, cheaper, in that order. We look for people who are:

• Humble and down to earth. Generous with credit, and easy to work with across every function.
• Driven by urgency. In our business, every day saved converts directly into revenue.
• Willing to go above and beyond when it matters, with a positive, can-do attitude.
• Comfortable running several initiatives at once in an environment that is still taking shape.

The Role

You are a senior builder across data and AI. You design and ship data pipelines, models and agents end-to-end, set the bar for code quality, and mentor other engineers. You take on complex, open-ended challenges and turn them into reliable, reusable components.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design and build ingestion, transformation and serving pipelines from internal systems and delivery partners into our lakehouse.
• Build agents and AI workflows on our governed platform: tool use, retrieval over structured and unstructured data, and orchestration.
• Build evaluation and observability into everything you ship so you can trace and audit every agent’s actions.
• Contribute to the core data model and the agent tool layer, building components once so many teams can reuse them.
• Lead technical design on initiatives, review code, and raise the team’s engineering standards.
• Work directly with business stakeholders to understand the process before you build.
• Mentor Data & AI Engineers.

What We’re Looking For

• 6+ years in data or software engineering, with recent production work on AI or LLM systems.
• Strong Python and SQL, and hands‑on experience with modern data tooling (e.g. Databricks, dbt, Spark, Kafka, Airflow or Fivetran) on a major cloud.
• Experience building with LLM APIs and agent frameworks, including tool use, retrieval and evaluation.
• Solid engineering practice: version control, CI/CD, testing and infrastructure as code.
• The judgment to choose the simplest thing that works, and to explain trade‑offs to non‑engineers.

Why Join Sharon AI?

• Hybrid working – flexibility between our office and working from home
• Birthday leave – take some extra time to celebrate your day
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) – confidential support when you need it
• Exposure to AI and next‑generation technology – work in one of the fastest‑moving areas of technology
• Learning & development – we support your career growth with approved conferences, professional memberships & courses
• Novated leasing – a tax‑effective way to finance and run your car
• Bounty referral program – generous rewards for successfully referring new talent to Sharon AI
• Employee of the month – recognition plus a $500 gift card
• Growing global business – be part of an Australian technology company with an expanding international footprint
• Make an impact – join at a stage where your work can have a visible influence on how we build and grow
• Collaborative culture – work alongside talented people across technical, commercial and corporate teams

Our Values

Integrity | Innovation | Collaboration | Wellbeing | Inclusion

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we’re unfortunately not always able to provide individual feedback to unsuccessful candidates. We appreciate your understanding and want to assure you that every application will be reviewed with care.