Technical Founder, AI-Enabled Product & Data Engineering

The role

You will be the technical co-founder of a venture, building a working product from a validated idea. You will own the data layer, AI implementation, and engineering foundation while leading the first engineering hires.

What you will do

• Ship a working product surface fast enough to get real market feedback
• Build the data layer including ingesting, cleaning and joining third-party data
• Make AI work in production
• Make build, buy or AI-assist calls on significant technical decisions
• Stand up the engineering foundation from the repo to CI/CD
• Turn validated demand into shipped, tested product
• Hire and lead the first engineers

Required qualifications

• Full-stack ability proven by products you have shipped and people use
• Data engineering in production including pipelines, integrations or ingestion
• Practical experience using coding and agent tools
• Experience making a significant technical or product decision on incomplete information

Nice to have

• Real-time or low-latency systems
• LLM features shipped to real users including evaluation and guardrails
• Running what you've built including reliability and on-call
• Experience in a regulated or data-sensitive domain
• Geospatial or computer vision

Benefits

• A$3m of committed capital per venture
• 30% equity for the founding team
• Control over the budget
• Access to an AI-native operating system, playbooks and tooling
• Access to a talent system for first hires
• Access to a growth analytics engine

Before you apply

• You'll need your own full-time Australian work rights
• We're not able to sponsor visas
• We don't yet know which of the 40 prototypes will be funded

About the company

Repeat Builders is a Sydney venture builder launching its first five ventures, each on a fixed, funded runway.