AI Engineer / Melbourne / Permanent or Contract 

About the Company
Our client is a lean, high-conviction investment publishing and media business covering ASX-listed companies across resources, tech, and emerging sectors. They run a tight team, move quickly, and have meaningfully embedded AI into their workflows.

About the Role
This is a first-of-its-kind hire for the business. Reporting directly to the founding team, you will own the AI agenda end-to-end: identifying the highest-impact opportunities, building production-grade solutions, and being the go-to technical authority that unlocks what the team cannot tackle alone.

Benefits

• Genuine autonomy with direct access to the decision-makers who set the agenda
• No internal politics, no legacy tech constraints, no committee approvals
• Flexible remuneration: salary or day rate considered, with a clear commitment to pay for demonstrated value
• Hybrid working arrangement based in Sydney

Duties / Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy AI agents and automated workflows that solve real business problems across the organisation
• Work across LLM platforms including Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, and Perplexity to select and apply the right tool for each use case
• Own the complexity, edge cases, and failures the team cannot resolve independently
• Act as the internal AI authority and upskill the broader team to embed AI capability across day-to-day operations
• Proactively track developments across the AI landscape and bring new tools and thinking into the business

Skills and Experience

• Background in software engineering or a closely related technical discipline (not data analytics)
• Hands-on experience building with LLMs and AI platforms, including agents, automations, and production-grade workflows
• Strong engineering fundamentals: able to handle complexity, debug failures, and build durable solutions
• Comfortable operating autonomously in a fast-moving, non-technical environment where priorities shift
• Genuine interest in financial markets, investing, or trading
• Effective communicator with the ability to bring a non-technical team along on the journey

About Allura Partners
Allura Partners was founded to support private equity firms by placing C-Suites to lead, transform, and scale portfolio companies. Today, in addition to our proven private equity specialisation, we've become a trusted partner for major ASX-listed and private enterprises in Australia, offering executive search, recruitment, and business transformation. Known for integrity, reliability, and results, our expertise spans Executive Search, Accounting & Finance, Transformation & Change, and Technology & Digital. We connect businesses and top-tier talent, exceeding expectations and driving lasting impact.

AI Engineer / Melbourne / Permanent or Contract