Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

SEEK; City of Yarra; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Bonus

Flexible work

Paid leave benefits

Parental leave

Job summary

SEEK is seeking a senior individual contributor to shape AI-enabled platforms across teams, delivering end-to-end solutions embedded in SEEK's workflows. You will design and deploy intelligence platforms, copilots, and automation, working with Product, Data, Architecture, AI and Engineering, and you will drive adoption and measurable business impact.

Reporting to the Head of Operational Excellence, this is a senior IC role with no direct reports, partnering across groups to deliver scalable,

Qualifications

• Experience designing and building AI-enabled products, workflows, agents or decision-support systems.
• Strong understanding of modern AI technologies including LLMs, retrieval systems, agent architectures, evaluation approaches and guardrails.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into practical, scalable and maintainable technical solutions.
• Strong business judgement, with the ability to connect organisational objectives to effective systems, workflows and decision-support tools.
• Experience embedding new tools through stakeholder engagement, training and coaching.
• Experience in areas such as forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, product management, consulting, transformation or startup environments.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of AI-enabled solutions for embedded teams from ideation to adoption.
• Build intelligence platforms, copilots, and agents that automate core processes.
• Collaborate across Product, Data, Architecture, AI and Engineering to align with SEEK’s patterns.
• Build capability and drive adoption via training, playbooks and communities of practice.
• Monitor adoption, quality, productivity and impact to continuously improve workflows.

Skills

AI-enabled products

LLMs

Decision-support systems

Translate business problems into tech

Stakeholder coaching/training

Solutions engineering

Job description

SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businessesmake a positive impacton a truly global scale. Our purpose is to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organisations succeed. We create world-class technology solutions toconnect more people to relevantemployment, education, small businessandvolunteer opportunities. Wehavea cultureofhigh-performancein our workplaces andcelebrate the diversity ofour employeeswhocontribute to thesuccess of our organisation.

Life at SEEK

SEEK’s purpose is at the centre of everything we do. Our SEEK, which defines the way we work, is all about what makes us unique and a little bit different. Passion, Team, Delivery and Future are our principles that drive innovation and creativity. SEEK strives to support employee wellbeing by providing an amazing experience at work which led us to being named AFR BOSS Top 10 Best Places to Work in Technology (2021-2024). We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.

Job Description

Why this opportunity

This is an opportunity to shape how SEEK operates by developing practical AI-enabled tools and platforms that can be adopted, scaled and continuously improved. The role offers end-to-end ownership—from identifying high-value opportunities through to implementation, adoption and measurable business impact. You’ll join a fast-paced and supportive environment where people are passionate about SEEK’s purpose, collaborate closely and take a long-term view.

You will work day-to-day embedded in one or more of SEEK’s teams, partnering with people across the organisation to understand their needs and improve how work gets done. In this role, you will design and deploy AI-enabled intelligence platforms, workflows and tools that strengthen decision-making and improve productivity across SEEK.

Reporting to the Head of Operational Excellence, this is a senior individual contributor role with no direct reports. You’ll partner with teams across the organisation, including Product, Data, Architecture, AI and Engineering, to solve business problems by building scalable systems, workflows and decision-support tools that improve the speed, quality and consistency of work.

What you’ll be doing

Own the end-to-end delivery of solutions for embedded teams, from opportunity identification and approach development through to implementation, adoption and realised benefits.

Build—and partner with others to build—solutions such as intelligence platforms, copilots embedded into ways of working, and agents that orchestrate and automate core processes.

Collaborate across Product, Data, Architecture, AI and Engineering to deliver solutions aligned with SEEK’s technology patterns and share learnings across the organisation.

Build capability and encourage adoption through training, coaching, playbooks, templates, communities of practice and effective operating rhythms.

Monitor adoption, quality, productivity and business impact, using these insights to continuously improve AI-enabled workflows and tools.

Qualifications

What we’re looking for

• Experience designing and building AI-enabled products, workflows, agents or decision-support systems.
• Strong understanding of modern AI technologies including LLMs, retrieval systems, agent architectures, evaluation approaches and guardrails.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into practical, scalable and maintainable technical solutions.
• Strong business judgement, with the ability to connect organisational objectives to effective systems, workflows and decision-support tools.
• Experience embedding new tools, technologies or operating models through stakeholder engagement, training and coaching.
• Experience in areas such as forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, product management, consulting, transformation or startup environments will be valuable, as will experience building internal AI products, knowledge systems or intelligence platforms.

Additional Information

Permanent Perks
At SEEK we offer:

• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days and Volunteer Days, as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 2 weeks paid leave for partners

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific supportor adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

For this role, only those candidates with the eligible right to work will be considered.

At SEEK, we may use AI tools to support parts of the hiring process, including reviewing applications or assessing responses. These tools are designed to assist our hiring teams, not replace human judgment. All hiring decisions are made by people. If you’d like more information about how your information is managed during recruitment, please contact the Talent Acquisition Team.