Forward Deployed Engineer

Kinetic ITSydneyHybridFull-time11 Sept 2026

Kinetic IT is hiring four founding Forward Deployed Engineers for its new AI Engineering & Platforms division in Sydney. You will embed with clients to discover high-value AI use cases, build and ship production software end-to-end, and drive adoption, working with frontier AI across Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. Requires strong full-stack engineering fundamentals, hands-on modern AI depth, and confidence in customer-facing communication.

What you'll do

Discovering and framing high-value AI use cases from inside the operation — living the customer's day, working with their stakeholders from frontline operators to executives, and choosing what's worth building.
Building AI-enabled systems end-to-end — agentic systems, RAG, automation workflows, APIs and integrations — using frontier models across Azure, AWS and Google Cloud, deployed into whatever stack the customer already runs.
Prototyping, testing and iterating quickly, then hardening what proves value — balancing security, reliability, usability, cost and speed to value throughout.
Productising what you learn — driving adoption (training teams, reshaping workflows around the new capability), then generalising what worked into reusable patterns, accelerators and platform capability.
Owning the outcome at the account end-to-end — from discovery through build, production, and adoption.

What you need

Must-have

TypeScriptReactNode.jsPythonC#Java.NETLLMs

Nice-to-have

MicrosoftServiceNow

Soft skills

AutonomyOwnershipCustomer-facing communicationValue-first judgementProductisation instinctConfidenceTrust-building

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