Principal Software Engineer - AI Team

Role Overview:

Location:

• This position will be based in our Sydney office. The candidate is required to attend the office a minimum of 3 days per week but may voluntarily elect to work either remotely or from the Sydney office for the remaining 2 days of the week

Key Responsibilities

• Take a leading role in application architecture, partnering with the Architecture function to define and converge on target-state technology and patterns.
• Set, refine and uphold engineering standards across code style, code quality, security, and secure-by-design practices.
• Improve reliability and performance across the product, and guide others to do the same; troubleshoot, triage and resolve complex customer problems.
• Contribute production code and provide thoughtful, pragmatic reviews on complex PRs.
• Mentor engineers across levels, growing the technical capability of a distributed team.
• Contribute to innovation, technical planning and ways of working — including how we design, evaluate and ship AI agents and agentic workflows in the platform.
• Champion cross-team initiatives to keep technologies interoperable across Nuix Neo.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Degree, or equivalent, in a relevant field such as computer science/engineering, software engineering, machine learning, mathematics or a related quantitative discipline.
• At least 10 years' software engineering experience (minimum 8), with a track record of providing technical solutions to complex problems at scale.
• Experience developing an AI / ML product is highly desirable — familiarity with the realities of shipping AI features, agents or model-backed products.
• Strong backend Java and experience with Spring framework; ideally full-stack (≈80/20 backend/frontend) with TypeScript and React front end. Backend essential, frontend nice-to-have.
• Python exposure valuable given our model-backed components; comfort working alongside data scientists and ML workflows.
• Experience across on-prem and SaaS/cloud delivery (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, AWS) is desirable.
• Experience building or integrating AI/LLM-backed features, agents or agentic workflows is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with NLP, document intelligence or data-enrichment technologies (or adjacent) is a strong plus.
• Hands-on and strategic, a strong communicator and consensus builder, comfortable operating across multiple teams and tech stacks and driving clarity in ambiguity.
• Self-driven, autonomous and able to demonstrate initiative for technical improvements.
• Nuix is an equal opportunities employer. Don’t let imposter syndrome hold you back! We welcome all applications and are a flexible employer.
• We strive to make any required adjustments where possible to make the process fair and equitable for everyone. If you need any accommodations throughout the interview process, please note this in your job application.
• Nuix is on an incredible journey of transformation, aligning our strengths with our ambitions to pursue greater opportunities. To find out more about who we are and what we are doing, please visit our web page.
• https://www.nuix.com/

As we expand our global team and extend our skills and expertise, we are unified as one Nuix team guided by our shared values. Nuix Vision

• Finding Truth in a Digital World.

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**Nuix is an Equal Opportunity Employer**