# Forward Deployed Engineer: Agentic AI & Python | Perth | Fully Remote | A$200K-A$275K

This a Full Remote job, the offer is available from: Oceania, APAC, Australia Be the first Forward Deployed Engineer in Australia for a well-funded, VC-backed AI startup building an AI engineer for the physical world. Our client is a fast-growing AI startup building an AI engineer agent that works on real physical engineering problems: mechanical, electrical, aerospace, mining and process. Founded in 2024 and backed by top-tier US venture investors, they have a team of around 26 and a long-term goal of engineering AGI. Their Forward Deployed Engineers sit in the US. Their Australian customer base is growing, and they need someone here who can own it. That’s you. The role You’ll be the technical lead on customer deployments. This is a fully remote role based in Perth, with time alongside the customer’s engineers when the work needs it. You’ll: Run technical discovery with customer engineering teams and find the pain points that matter Design and ship end-to-end agentic AI solutions fast, from 0 to 1, and make the key calls on architecture, data integrations and UX Integrate the product into complex industrial and engineering workflows Lead whiteboarding sessions and lunch-and-learns

- **Id**: 3953058
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/big-wave-digital-forward-deployed-engineer-agentic-ai-python-perth-fully-remote-a200k-a275k>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Perth, Australia
- **Countries**: AU
- **Hiring countries**: AU
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T01:31:07Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T01:31:07Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2993
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4527650
- **Name**: Big Wave Digital
- **Domain**: bigwavedigital.com.au
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/big-wave-digital>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Salary

- **Min**: 200000
- **Max**: 275000
- **Currency**: AUD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 188887

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Australia** — Iso: AU; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T05:39:39Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: seen:0, agency, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 188887
- **Is top pay**: yes

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