Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

V2 Digital; Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Equipment provided

VersionUp Day

Parental leave

Startup culture

Training budget

Mentorship

Promotion pathway

Flexible work

Meetups

CSR rating

Job summary

V2 AI is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer of Applied AI to design and build agentic AI system components embedded in customer environments.

You will work closely with Product Owners, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to turn ambiguous objectives into deployed, production-ready AI solutions, owning quality and observability in production. You will review colleagues' work, contribute to IaC/CI/CD, and help shape architecture and technical standards.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and building agentic AI systems.
• Ownership of production quality and observability.
• Ability to review and mentor other engineers on technical standards.
• Clear communication to technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery of AI and software components you design and build within customer engagements.
• Partner with customer Product Owners and stakeholders to turn loosely specified problems into deliverable solutions.
• Understand how your technical solutions impact the business and spot new opportunities within accounts.
• Contribute to the design and build of agentic AI systems, including multi-agent orchestration, tools, and memory management.
• Choose the right pattern for each problem, rather than defaulting to a standard approach.
• Own evaluation for what you build, with eval suites covering expected, edge, and adversarial cases run continuously.
• Instrument components to monitor agent behaviour, cost, and latency in production, and use observability to diagnose and fix failures.
• Contribute to infrastructure as code and CI/CD practices that get work into production.
• Support pre-sales activity and actively contribute to architectural conversations, following V2 AI’s Technical Consulting Tenets.
• Estimate technical effort for familiar work, contribute to project meetings, and clearly communicate status, risks, and blockers.
• Guide and upskill engineers on technical standards, and review their work with constructive feedback.
• Contribute to V2 AI accelerators, share your work through lightning talks and demos, and represent V2 AI in the community.

Skills

AI engineering

Software development

CI/CD

IaC

Observability

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Job description

About V2 AI

V2 AI is a leading AI-Native consultancy backed by $30m in VC funding, allowing us to meet our customers' needs. We harness the power of AI to accelerate business outcomes for some of the world's largest brands. We bring decades of experience and a unique delivery model to partner with our customers on the most complex problems for immense, measurable impact.

Our Services

• AI Strategy & Governance
• AI Enablement
• Applied AI
• Data & AI Security

About the Role

As a Forward Deployed Engineerof Applied AI, you design and build the agentic AI system components that turn customer objectives into deployed, production-ready AI solutions.

You embed directly within customer environments, working closely with Product Owners, business stakeholders, and engineering teams. Problems often arrive without a full specification, and you help break that ambiguity down, choosing patterns that suit the problem rather than reaching for a default.

Forward Deployed Engineering combines strong software and AI engineering with ownership of quality in production. You own the evaluation and observability of what you build, contribute to the IaC and CI/CD practices that get work into production, and are an active contributor to architectural conversations and designs.

You are trusted to review other engineers’ technical work, guide and upskill them on technical standards and approaches, and communicate technical messages clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery of AI and software components you design and build within customer engagements
• Partner with customer Product Owners and stakeholders to turn loosely specified problems into deliverable solutions
• Understand how your technical solutions impact the business and the benefits they deliver, and spot new opportunities within accounts
• Contribute to the design and build of agentic AI systems, including multi-agent orchestration, tools, and prompt and memory management
• Choose the right pattern for each problem, rather than defaulting to a standard approach
• Own evaluation for what you build, with eval suites covering expected, edge, and adversarial cases run continuously
• Instrument components to monitor agent behaviour, cost, and latency in production, and use observability to diagnose and fix failures
• Contribute to infrastructure as code and CI/CD practices that get work into production
• Support pre-sales activity and actively contribute to architectural conversations, following V2 AI’s Technical Consulting Tenets
• Estimate technical effort for familiar work, contribute to project meetings, and clearly communicate status, risks, and blockers
• Guide and upskill engineers on technical standards, and review their work with constructive feedback
• Contribute to V2 AI accelerators, share your work through lightning talks and demos, and represent V2 AI in the community

What You Will Get:

• Competitive salary package
• Pick your equipment
• Gifted Day Off ("VersionUp Day")
• Generous parental leave
• Well-funded startup environment
• Annual training budget
• Mentorship program
• Clear promotion pathways
• Flexible working arrangements
• Meet-ups & socials
• 97% rating on corporate social responsibility