Senior Software Engineer (LLMs)

Lookahead; Melbourne; Remote; AUD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Five weeks leave

Remote-first / Hybrid options

Flexible hours

Home office budget

Professional development program

Equity discussion at 12 months

Job summary

Lookahead in Australia is seeking a senior software engineer who has shipped ML-powered features to real users in a commercial product. You will own end-to-end ML components, collaborate with product and design, and help steer the direction of our ML product used by customers in Australia and the UK.

You write production-grade Python, build robust tests, and thrive in a small, senior team reporting to engineering co-founders.

Qualifications

• Senior software engineer with ML features shipped to real users in a commercial product company.
• Strong Python production coding and testing habits.
• Familiarity with collaborating closely with product/design teams.

Responsibilities

• Own features and steer the direction of our ML product.
• Collaborate with product and design to deliver user-loved ML features.

Skills

Python

ML deployment

Product collaboration

Testing & reliability

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Hugging Face

Docker

Job description

The Company

Join a small, senior team of software engineers in a well funded company, reporting directly to the engineering co-founders. Own features and help steer the direct of our ML product used by companies in Australia and the UK. And work on a product that users love.

About you

• You're a senior software engineer who has shipped ML-powered features to real users at a commercial product company, and you can talk concretely about how they worked and what you'd do differently
• You have genuine LLM intuition: when to use RAG vs prompting vs fine-tuning, how to improve output quality, how to build eval pipelines that tell you something meaningful
• Python is your primary language and you write clean, production-grade code with strong testing habits
• You're at home working closely with product and design, not just in the codebase
• You enjoy going deep on hard problems rather than jumping between shiny things
• Familiarity with AWS Bedrock or the Hugging Face ecosystem is a plus

The offer

• Approx. $160k–220k+ base + super (depending on experience)
• Remote first, anywhere in Australia, or hybrid in Melbourne if you're local
• Five weeks annual leave
• Flexible hours, output over face time
• Home office budget and professional development program
• Equity conversation at 12 months

Debbie Teakle
www.lookahead.com.au