Forward Deployed Engineer - AI ENGINEERING & PLATFORMS

ROLE LOCATION

• Based in one of Kinetic IT's locations — Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra or Darwin. With regular national on-site travel: roughly a week at a time per account, multiple times a quarter, more around go-lives. Between customer visits, there's genuine flexibility in where and how you work.
• ABOUT AI ENGINEERING & PLATFORMS AI Engineering & Platforms is a newly formed division inside the Transformation Office, working in partnership with our strategy, change management, commercial and account teams. The division looks at everything through one lens — customer value: value first, value fast, value at scale — with frontier AI and serious engineering behind it, never in front of it.
• Value first: we start from the customer's problem, not the technology. Every build is judged by the outcome it delivers — cycle time reduced, backlog cleared, cost removed, risk lowered, hours returned to frontline teams — not by the tech it showcases.
• Value fast: zero to one in days. FDEs embed at one customer, find the problem that actually matters, and build a working solution into their environment — narrow, safe, observable and useful first, hardened next.
• Value at scale: what generalises gets built into a shared platform — not one customer's solution copied across, but the more general capability behind it, so it serves the next five customers, not just one. Each deployment makes the next one faster — and the surplus goes into harder problems.
• We measure two things: operational value delivered per account , and product leverage — whether each deployment of the same outcome gets easier.
• WHAT HAPPENS NOW… Apply with two things: 1. Proof you build: GitHub, a product, a demo, an architecture note, a shipped system — or an anonymised artefact if your work is confidential. 2. One outcome story (half a page): what was broken, who it hurt, the resistance you faced, what you shipped, what changed for the people using it, and what number moved. Specifics over polish.
• Talent Acquisition & Mobilisation will review your application and suitability for the role.
• You will be contacted via phone to discuss the opportunity — role, travel, expectations
• If shortlisted, you will proceed to the formal interview stage with the hiring manager (Head of AI Engineering & Platforms) and participate in a live working session.
• The preferred candidate will nominate a manager to provide an internal recommendation.