This role is well suited for people who are passionate about AI and about reinventing software engineering with AI to deliver faster, higher quality products and platforms. You will work with a team that is, every day, looking at how we can evolve our ways of working to be AI-First and what can be achieved with the constant progresses of the LLMs and AI coding tools.
As a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer, you will lead end-to-end delivery of AI-powered products and solutions for our clients, focusing mainly on enterprises, owning the journey from discovery and technical scoping through to pilot, delivery all the way to production, and adoption.
The work is varied: deploying an agentic AI workflow inside a major health insurer, standing up an AI-powered platform for a bank, or designing intelligent automation for a public sector agency. Our clients are Fortune 1000s across financial services, health, and the public sector, and the problems are real, ambiguous, and production-bound.
While the foundation is broad full-stack and generalist engineering: you are equally proficient across product, architecture, coding, infrastructure, we expect you to be using AI coding tool such as GHCP, Claude Code, Cursor or Codex on a daily basis to generate most of your requirements, code, architecture diagrams… at least on side projects and ideally in your day-to-day work.
You will think and build end to end like a product engineer and not just think about the code. These are not staff augmentation placements: you take a product from journey to pilot to production, own the outcome it delivers, and care as much about whether it gets adopted and creates value as whether the code is elegant.
This is a hands-on engineering role within a consulting environment. You will embed directly with client engineering, product, and domain teams, translating ambiguous business problems into working systems that deliver measurable impact. You will be AI-native by default, applying PALO IT’s Gen-e2 methodology to drive quality, speed, and adoption across every engagement.
This role is based in Sydney. We operate a hybrid model with three days per week in our Sydney office or on client site, with the balance worked flexibly.
This is a client-facing role at its core. You will spend much of your time in front of clients, running discovery sessions, presenting to senior stakeholders, and owning the conversation as much as the code. If you enjoy owning a problem end to end and seeing your work land with the people who use it, you will thrive here. This role suits people who are energised by ambiguity rather than a well-defined backlog.