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Rather than shipping something once and moving on, you'll own it end to end from early experimentation through to production, including the run books, monitoring and rollback thinking that keep it reliable once real engineers depend on it day to day.\nThis is a role with real influence. You'll help shape the technical direction of an internal skills marketplace and AI distribution platform used across the wider engineering organisation, work directly with vendors like AWS, Microsoft and GitHub on technology that isn't public yet, and help guide and challenge a team that's still early in its AI journey.\nThe team & how they connect\nThe AI Enablement team sits within Engineering Experience and focuses on helping product engineering teams work faster and better with AI through platforms, tooling and practical guidance rather than just standard tooling. It's a close-knit team, spread across Melbourne, Sydney and the Sunshine Coast, with a product manager based in Wellington, who stay connected through regular syncs and a genuinely collaborative way of working despite the distance.\nInitially, you will focus on\nOur current stack is C#, .NET and AWS, with Python and TypeScript picked up along the way for AI tooling\n\nBuilding an internal skills marketplace and a distribution platform for AI tools used across Xero's engineering org\n\nDeveloping guidance and best practice for authoring agent skills, including agents for remediation tasks\n\nCollaborating directly with AWS, Microsoft and GitHub on early-access technology not yet available in market\n\nWhere and how you can work\nYou can be based anywhere in Australia, and we're also open to candidates based in New Zealand. 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