AI Product Engineer

Sydney, Remote. Posted 4 days ago

The role

You will design, prototype, and ship AI-powered features including LLM and agentic systems. You will build agentic and retrieval-based systems grounded in the Neara digital twin and simulation outputs.

What you will do

Design, prototype and ship AI-powered features end to end
Build agentic and retrieval-based systems grounded in the Neara digital twin
Design guardrails, refusals, confidence signals and human-in-the-loop checkpoints
Build evaluation discipline including eval sets, regression testing and observability
Work alongside power systems and GIS specialists
Work with Product, Design and customer-facing teams to iterate on features
Set the standard for how Neara engineers build with AI

Required qualifications

5+ years building and shipping production software
Real depth in backend or full-stack product engineering
Shipped AI features to paying customers in a commercial product
Hands-on experience with retrieval, context engineering, tool use, agent orchestration, structured output, and prompt design
Ability to describe an eval approach you built
Sound judgement about where AI should and should not be used
Strong product sense and comfort working directly with users and product teams

Nice to have

Experience shipping into regulated or enterprise environments
Geospatial, 3D, CAD, simulation or other engineering software backgrounds
Experience with TypeScript/React, Python, Java, Dart/Rust
Utilities, energy or critical infrastructure domain knowledge

Benefits

Competitive salary
Meaningful ESOP
Fully flexible working arrangements
Well-stocked office in Redfern
Regular office events

Before you apply

You will require current and unrestricted working rights
Visa sponsorship is not offered

About the company

Neara uses advanced machine learning to create engineering-grade, physics enabled digital twins of electricity grids across four continents. They empower utilities to pinpoint risks and build a more resilient global energy future.