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Scale. Sustain.\nWe are a global technology consultancy with a trademarked, AI-first engineering approach for accelerating the delivery of digital products, and revolutionizing platform modernization.We do the right thing, and we do it right. We're proud to be a World Economic Forum New Champion, and a B Corp-certified company.\nWe are small enough to care locally, big enough to deliver globally: 5 continents, 10 countries, +500 experts from +50 nationalities across the Americas, Europe and APAC\n\nWe are robust and resilient: 100% independent and 0 debt\n\nWe are entrepreneurs and passionate experts: We invest in what we believe genuinely and work as a collective intelligence\n\nWe are positive, courageous, caring, doers and committed to excellence\n\nAbout Gen-e2TM \nWhile the market is still largely AI-augmenting delivery, we have reinvented the SDLC to be AI First. Leveraging our 16 years expertise in digital transformation, our approach is a game-changer in productivity and quality, with a strong collaboration between AI generative and our best Talents:\nWe now generate 95% of the entire product - code, documentation, infrastructure as code, and even design - powered by AI coding agents and our own tooling.\n\nThe quality consistently exceeds the output of our best traditional engineering teams.\n\nA product repository houses all product artefacts, giving AI full project context for higher-quality generation.\n\nA library of rules and prompts defines coding standards, design principles, and security guidelines, ensuring enterprise-grade quality and scalability. With Gen-e2TM, we deliver end-to-end products 2-3× faster than traditional approaches, while raising the bar for engineering excellence.\n\nAI generates; engineers own. Your judgement, design thinking, and standards are what make the output production-grade.\nYour Role\nThis role suits people passionate about AI and about reinventing software engineering to deliver faster, higher-quality products. You will join a team exploring every day how to evolve our ways of working to be AI-First and what's possible with rapidly advancing LLMs and AI coding tools.\nAs a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you will deliver AI-powered products and solutions for our clients, focusing mainly on enterprises, owning the journey from discovery and scoping through pilot and production to adoption.\nThe work is varied: deploying an agentic AI workflow inside a major health insurer, standing up an AI-powered platform for a bank, or designing intelligent automation for a public sector agency. Our clients are Fortune 1000s across financial services, health, and the public sector, and the problems are real, ambiguous, and production-bound.\nThe foundation is broad full-stack, generalist engineering: you are equally proficient across product, architecture, coding, and infrastructure. We expect daily use of AI coding tools such as GHCP, Claude Code, Cursor or Codex to generate most of your requirements, code, and architecture diagrams, at least on side projects and ideally day-to-day.\nYou will think and build end to end like a product engineer, not just think about the code. These are not staff augmentation placements: you take a product from journey to pilot to production, own the outcome it delivers, and care as much about whether it gets adopted and creates value as whether the code is elegant.\nThis is a hands-on engineering role within a consulting environment. You will embed directly with client engineering, product, and domain teams, translating ambiguous business problems into working systems that deliver measurable impact. You will be AI-native by default, applying PALO IT’s Gen-e2 methodology to drive quality, speed, and adoption across every engagement.\nThis role is based in Sydney. We operate a hybrid model with three days per week in our Sydney office or on client site, with the balance worked flexibly.\nThis is a client-facing role at its core: you'll spend much of your time with clients, running discovery sessions, presenting to senior stakeholders, and owning the conversation as much as the code. If you enjoy owning a problem end to end and seeing your work land with the people who use it, and you're energised by ambiguity rather than a well-defined backlog, you'll thrive here.\nClient Delivery\nIndependently deliver defined workstreams within your engagement, from prototype through to production.\n\nContribute to discovery and scoping sessions: ask strong clarifying questions and help frame the problem.\n\nBuild full-stack, AI-powered systems that deliver measurable client value.\n\nIdentify risks and dependencies early and raise them before they become blockers.\n\nProactively pick up unassigned work and drive it forward.\n\nConsulting & Client Engagement\nWork directly with client teams and build trust with technical and non-technical stakeholders.\n\nContribute ideas on how AI can improve the client’s product, not just deliver what was asked.\n\nCommunicate your thinking clearly: in the room, in writing, and in the code.\n\nBring field feedback to the team to sharpen how we deliver.\n\nAI-Native & Gen-e2 Practice (Core Expectation)\nChampion AI-native ways of working, including AI-first development, testing, and documentation.\n\nApply prompt and context engineering, output validation, and critical review of AI-generated code.\n\nStay current with emerging GenAI tools and bring practical ideas back to the team.\n\nWho You Are\nClient-facing aptitude and a consulting posture are essential. You are comfortable engaging directly with client stakeholders, presenting your thinking, and working in the open. This is a non-negotiable requirement.\n\n5+ years of hands-on software development experience, ideally including cross-functional or client-facing work.\n\nProven ability to independently deliver a defined workstream in a fast-moving or ambiguous environment.\n\nSolid full-stack, generalist foundations. Preferred technologies include ReactJS for frontend and NodeJS/Java/Python for backend development.\n\nYou are open to learning new stacks. We work across different client environments, languages, frameworks, and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP), and with AI as a learning tool, picking up something new is easier than ever. You don’t need to tick every technology box; curiosity goes a long way.\n\nExperience building with LLMs or generative models, professionally or through substantial personal projects.\n\nSolid system design capability and a strong understanding of programming patterns and principles.\n\nClear communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.\n\nDemonstrated initiative and ownership: you drive outcomes rather than wait for instructions.\n\nAI-Native & Gen-e2 Skills (Required)\nHands-on, daily use of AI tools across your engineering workflow.\n\nWorking grasp of prompt and context engineering for engineering workflows.\n\nDemonstrated use of AI tools in day-to-day engineering work, not just theoretical exposure. You should be able to show how AI is part of your working method.\n\nCritical thinking to validate and verify AI-generated code and solutions.\n\nGood to Have\nPrior consulting or client-facing delivery experience.\n\nEnterprise environment exposure.\n\nExperience with AI/ML services and frameworks.\n\nExperience with cloud computing platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).\n\nMore About PALO IT\nOur mission is to become the most advanced consulting company in AI-First product and software engineering. 100% of our projects deploy our Gen-e2 methodology to help clients accelerate delivery and scale these practices.\nWhat We Offer\nGen-e2 and AI upskilling\n\nStimulating working environments\n\nUnique career path\n\nInternal R&D projects\n\nKnowledge sharing\n\nPersonalized training\n\nFor more on our team culture and benefits, check out our careers page.\nWe will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Australia, and do not require sponsorship of a visa.\nPALO IT Australia is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions will be based on merit, qualifications and abilities. PALO IT AU does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices based on race, colour, religion, sex, sexuality, national origin, age, disability, marital status or any other characteristics protected by law. \nProtecting your privacy and the security of your data are longstanding top priorities for PALO IT. Your data will be processed to manage PALO IT’s recruitment-related activities. 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