Senior Applied AI Engineer at Podium IT

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

07 Jul, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

08 Apr, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Applied AI, API development, REST, GraphQL, Webhooks, Event-driven systems, Git, CI/CD, System design, Prompt design, Agentic workflow design, LLM integration, Software development lifecycle, Technical documentation, Problem solving, Stakeholder collaboration

Industry

Software Development

Description

At Podium, we bring AI Employees to local businesses that turn every conversation into revenue. Trusted by 60,000+ businesses across Auto, Home Services, and Aesthetics, Podium captures and converts leads 24/7, driving both new business and repeat customers. In under 24 months, we crossed $100M in AI Agent ARR, scaling 300% year-over-year. During this time, we’ve deployed 10,000 AI employees to empower real business outcomes for our customers. Podium is building what we believe will be the most impactful AI employee ecosystem for local business. Podium has been recognized as the Best AI Implementation by Inc. Magazine, highlighted by OpenAI for building revenue-driving AI Agents, and awarded the #1 AI Agent for Business Operations by G2. Our growth is fueled by hiring exceptional people, holding them to high standards, and creating opportunities for them to grow and make an impact. Our operating principles guide daily behavior and ensure we hire people who will thrive at Podium. If you're hungry for growth, aligned to our operating principles, and ready to get to work, you won't find a better place to learn and accelerate your career. Senior Applied AI Engineer About the Role At Podium, our mission is to arm every local business with a complete platform and outcome-driven AI employees that convert leads into real, paying customers. Every day, millions of workers use our AI lead conversion and communication platform to help them get more leads and make more money. Our focus on helping local businesses thrive has earned us recognition across the industry — including Forbes’ Next Billion Dollar Startups, Forbes’ Cloud 100, the Inc. 5000, Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies, and G2 Grid Leader (#1 in Agentic AI). As Podium continues to grow in Australia, we are building stronger local engineering capability to deliver AI-powered products tailored to the AU market—while staying aligned with global Product and Engineering teams. This role is critical to increasing local delivery velocity, improving technical quality, and reducing reliance on global engineering bottlenecks. You will play a key role in shaping how solutions are designed and delivered locally, while maintaining alignment with global standards. We believe in fostering a culture that thrives on hiring and developing exceptional talent. Our operating principles serve as a compass, guiding daily behaviour and decision-making, and ensure we hire people who will thrive at Podium. If you resonate with our principles and are energised by our mission, Podium will be a great place for you. The Opportunity You will design and deliver AI-powered products and workflows using Podium’s tech stack with integrations being a critical component. This is a hands-on, engineering-focused role where you’ll operate across the full development lifecycle—from problem definition and solution design through to implementation, testing, and deployment—leveraging AI-assisted development workflows. You will take ownership of ambiguous problems, define effective approaches, and deliver high-quality solutions end-to-end. You will be expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy and make sound technical decisions without constant oversight. You’ll contribute to improving how work is delivered locally by: raising the quality and consistency of technical outputs reducing iteration cycles with global engineering teams establishing repeatable patterns and best practices What You’ll Do Design and build AI-powered products and integrations across multiple systems and partners Work within Git-based workflows (branching, pull requests, code reviews, deployments), including CI/CD pipelines Translate business and partner requirements into scalable, well-structured technical solutions Anticipate edge cases, failure modes, and data considerations early in the design process Produce clear, well-documented implementations that support efficient review and approval Leverage AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor) and LLMs to accelerate development and improve output quality Build and iterate on AI-powered workflows, including prompt design and evaluating agent outputs Collaborate with stakeholders across AU and global teams in an async environment Contribute to defining solution patterns, standards, and ways of working for the AU team What You’ll Bring Strong experience designing and building systems using APIs (REST, GraphQL, webhooks, event-driven systems) Proven ability to take problems from concept through to production with minimal oversight Strong engineering fundamentals and experience working within a full software development lifecycle (Git, pull requests, CI/CD, deployments) Ability to produce high-quality, well-structured, review-ready work that minimises iteration cycles Strong system thinking, with the ability to identify risks, dependencies, and long-term implications Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) in a real delivery context Familiarity with LLM-powered and agentic workflow design and what it takes to take them to production Ability to understand business context and translate it into effective technical solutions Strong written communication and ability to operate effectively in a distributed, async environment What We Offer Real career growth opportunities within a young and rapidly expanding team in Australia. A unique product that creates meaningful impact for the local businesses you love and support. A generous $650 monthly Benefits & Well-being allowance, to use as you please. Equity/stock options - 'Be a Founder' and be rewarded as one at Podium. Access to free snacks and drinks, plus top-tier end-of-trip facilities including bike storage, lockers, and showers at our modern Podium Australia HQ in the Queen & Collins building.

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Responsibilities

Design and build AI-powered products and integrations across the full development lifecycle. Collaborate with global and local teams to establish technical standards and improve delivery velocity.