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You'll own product outcomes end-to-end while actively building, prototyping, and evolving intelligent systems that solve real business problems.\nYou'll work closely with engineers, designers, stakeholders, and clients to translate ambiguous, messy, real-world problems into clear product direction and production-ready AI solutions. You won't wait for a well-scoped ticket. You'll walk into ambiguity and create structure through clear thinking and action.\nWhat You'll Do\nHands-on AI Engineering\nDesign, build, and maintain agentic AI systems (multi-step reasoning, tool use, orchestration, memory, autonomy)\nOrchestrate purpose-built agent teams - design how agents coordinate, what information flows where, and how parallel workstreams converge into coherent output\nDesign reusable solution patterns - recipes and mapping functions that apply repeatedly within and across problem spaces\nWrite clean, production-quality code to implement AI-driven features\nBuild prototypes and proof-of-concepts quickly, then harden them for production\nIntegrate LLMs, APIs, vector databases, tools, and external systems\nImplement evaluation, monitoring, and iteration strategies for AI systems\nStay current with emerging AI patterns, frameworks, and best practices - our methods evolve fast, and you'll help shape them\nTechnical Collaboration\nWork closely with engineers to shape architecture and implementation decisions\nReview code and technical designs with a product-focused mindset\nBalance innovation with maintainability, scalability, and security\nAdvocate for responsible, ethical, and user-centred AI usage\nIterate on plans and ideas in the abstract before dropping into execution - challenge your own framing, stress-test approaches, ask better questions\nWhat We're Looking For\nCore Experience\nProven experience in AI development \n3-6 years experience in Engineering or Technical delivery/Software Development \nEngineering degree from any discipline is a major plus - mechanical, civil, electrical, industrial, chemical. Engineering teaches you how to think: systems, first principles, constraints, trade-offs, decomposition. Experience in industries where things get built physically: construction, mining, manufacturing, energy, infrastructure. \nStrong hands-on software development experience - you've built systems that solve real problems, not tutorial projects\nExposure to data engineering and ML pipelines, DL environments, including model development workflows and basic MLOps practices (e.g. training, evaluation, and deployment)\nTechnical Skills\nStrong programming fundamentals (Python or similar preferred, but demonstrated problem-solving in any modern language)\nExperience building with LLMs and agentic frameworks (e.g. LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, custom agent architectures)\nExperience designing workflows involving: Tool calling and orchestration\nMemory and context management\nMulti-agent or multi-step reasoning\nComfortable with APIs, cloud services, and modern application architectures\nUnderstanding of software quality, testing, and production readiness\nAI tooling, agentic workflows, and orchestration patterns are a strong plus - but developable if your foundation and drive are right. We coach the specifics.\nProduct & Thinking Skills\nFirst-principles problem-solving - you define the real problem, not the surface symptom\nComfortable working in ambiguity and evolving requirements - that's where the value is, not a reason to wait\nAbility to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders - in business terms, not jargon\nOutcome-driven mindset - focused on value and impact, not tools and frameworks\nThinks in reusable patterns - not just solving this problem, but the class of problems it belongs to\nQuestions the question before answering it\nNice to Have\nConsulting or client-facing delivery experience\nHas worked across multiple industries or domains - the scenic route is a feature\nExperience with UX research or discovery practices\nFamiliarity with compliance, privacy, or responsible AI principles\nHow You Work\nYou define the real problem before jumping to solutions - and you question the question before answering it\nYou are biased toward action, experimentation, and learning - fast. You treat decisions as experiments, not commitments\nYou're comfortable wearing multiple hats and switching contexts\nYou push back on bad ideas - including ours. You challenge assumptions and don't fold when someone says no\nYou collaborate deeply but can drive independently when needed\nYou care about building useful, well-crafted products that create real value - not impressive-sounding work that goes nowhere\nYou're curious, pragmatic, and hungry to learn. You figured things out by doing, not by completing courses\nWhy Join Us\nWork on meaningful, real-world AI products - not demos\nA high-trust environment with autonomy and ownership\nExposure to cutting-edge AI work while solving practical business problems\nCollaborative, people-first culture\nOpportunity to shape how we build and deliver AI-powered products\nWe're a software engineering firm becoming an AI company in real time. 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