Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

V2 AI; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary package

Pick your equipment

Gifted Day Off (VersionUp Day)

Generous parental leave

Well-funded startup environment

Clear promotion pathways

Flexible working arrangements

Meet-ups & socials

Job summary

V2 AI is a leading AI-Native consultancy delivering AI and software outcomes for enterprise customers in a Melbourne-based environment. You will own delivery, shape architectures, and guide customer teams from discovery through production, ensuring measurable business impact.

The role emphasizes strong pre-sales insight, cross-functional leadership, and mentoring engineers to uplift AI capabilities within projects. Enjoy a collaborative startup-like culture with flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering AI & software solutions in enterprise environments.
• Deep expertise with foundation models and modern AI system architectures (RAG, agent workflows, model context protocols).
• Strong software engineering background in distributed or cloud-native systems.
• Experience deploying solutions from concept to production.
• Experience in technical pre-sales or solution qualification.
• Strong solution design and architectural capability.
• Experience working with Product Owners or business-led delivery models.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of AI and software outcomes within customer engagements.
• Translate business goals into technical solutions with customer Product Owners and stakeholders.
• Embed within customer teams to accelerate delivery, adoption, and value realization.
• Ensure solutions deliver measurable operational and business impact.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor guiding customers through AI adoption.
• Qualify opportunities during discovery and pre-sales engagements.
• Shape solution approaches aligned to objectives and constraints.
• Define architecture direction, delivery approach, and scope.

Skills

AI delivery

Cloud-native systems

Architectural design

DevOps practices

Stakeholder communication

Delivery leadership

Job description

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 Enablement
• Applied AI
• Data & AI Security

Key Responsibilities

• Own delivery of AI and software outcomes within customer engagements.
• Partner closely with customer Product Owners and stakeholders to translate business goals into technical solutions.
• Embed within customer teams to accelerate delivery, adoption, and value realisation.
• Ensure solutions deliver measurable operational and business impact.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor guiding customers through AI adoption.
• Technically qualify opportunities during discovery and pre-sales engagements.
• Shape solution approaches aligned to customer objectives and constraints.
• Define architecture direction, delivery approach, and implementation scope.
• Contribute to proposals, technical solution narratives, and Statements of Work.
• Design and build distributed, cloud-native AI and software systems.
• Deliver production-grade solutions integrating enterprise data, platforms, and AI models.
• Apply modern software engineering, DevOps, and platform engineering practices.

Solution & Product Thinking

• Apply product and industry thinking to ensure solutions solve meaningful business problems.
• Balance rapid experimentation with production robustness.
• Continuously iterate solutions based on usage and feedback.

Delivery Leadership

• Lead technical execution within cross-functional delivery teams in customer teams.
• Roll up your sleeves and get the job done on your own when constrained to move the customer from where they are today to the next level.
• Support planning, estimation, and prioritisation alongside customer product leadership.
• Identify risks early and drive pragmatic resolution.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to V2 AI’s AI engineering capability uplift.

Role Requirement

• Proven experience delivering AI & Software solutions within enterprise environments.
• Deep expertise working with foundation models and modern AI system architectures, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agent-to-agent workflows, model context protocols, and enterprise AI integration patterns.
• Strong software engineering background, particularly in distributed or cloud-native systems.
• Experience deploying solutions from concept through to production.
• Demonstrated experience in technical pre-sales or solution qualification.
• Strong solution design and architectural capability.
• Experience working closely with Product Owners or business-led delivery models.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous and evolving problem spaces.
• Experience with modern cloud and platform engineering practices.
• Strong stakeholder communication skills across technical and business audiences.
• Ownership mindset focused on delivery outcomes and customer success.

What You Will Get:

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