Lead Engineer (AIPS)

About SEEK

SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses make a positive impact on a truly global scale. Our purpose is to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organisations succeed. We create world-class technology solutions to connect more people to relevant employment, education, small business and volunteer opportunities. We have a culture of high-performance in our workplaces and celebrate the diversity of our employees who contribute to the success of our organisation.

Life at SEEK

SEEK’s purpose is at the centre of everything we do. Our SEEK, which defines the way we work, is all about what makes us unique and a little bit different. Passion, Team, Delivery and Future are our principles that drive innovation and creativity. SEEK strives to support employee wellbeing by providing an amazing experience at work which led us to being named AFR BOSS Top 10 Best Places to Work in Technology (2021-2024). We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.

Our award-winning head office in Cremorne (just a 4 min walk from Richmond station) provides an exceptional space to collaborate with colleagues. The building provides sweeping views of the city, a games area, sit and stand desks at every workstation, modern end-of-trip facilities and Thursday night drinks which gives our people an opportunity to connect in a social setting.

The team

The AI Platform Services (AIPS) teams build platforms and solutions that solve complex information problems and enable AI innovation across the SEEK Group. Our AI Platform Engineering teams provide shared infrastructure, governance, and reusable assets that empower AI and product teams to experiment safely, ship faster, and deliver intelligent experiences at scale.

Teams are cross-functional, multi-disciplinary squads operating within an APAC matrix organisational structure. We work in an Agile environment with regular standups, sprint ceremonies, and collaborative ways of working.

About the role 

As a Lead Engineer at SEEK, you'll be part of a fast-paced and supportive environment where you can make a real difference. You'll work on complex challenges that have a direct impact on people's lives, helping us evolve our business and reach new heights.

This role provides technical and people leadership within our AI Platform Engineering domain — managing, mentoring, and developing the engineers who build the platforms powering AI innovation across SEEK. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will partner closely with the Staff Platform Engineer on technical direction and collaborate with Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and product teams to deliver scalable, resilient AI platform solutions. You will have 3–6 direct reports.

Responsibilities 

• Lead and develop a high-performing team through coaching, mentoring, career development, and a culture of safety, inclusivity, and engagement
• Drive delivery of AI platform systems from development through to production, ensuring high availability, resilience, and performance for production AI workloads
• Contribute to technical strategy for GenAI and ML platforms in close partnership with the Staff Platform Engineer
• Build and operate scalable AI infrastructure on AWS, leveraging Python and Infrastructure-as-Code
• Strengthen engineering practices and DevOps culture for AI platform operations, including incident management, on-call processes, and supporting documentation
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders including Data Scientists, ML Engineers, Architecture, and Security
• Lead recruitment, onboarding, and retention of engineering talent

Skills and experience 

• Direct line management experience of engineers, including coaching, mentoring, and career development
• Strong AWS infrastructure experience across compute, storage, networking, and security, with Infrastructure-as-Code practices
• Python proficiency for platform automation, tooling, and integrations
• Experience building and operating highly available, resilient production systems
• Demonstrated experience writing well-tested, readable software using secure coding practices, current patterns, and tooling
• Hands-on ML Engineering or MLOps experience, including GenAI/LLM platforms such as model inference, vector databases, RAG patterns, and AI Gateways, with multi-cloud experience beyond AWS (e.g. GCP/Vertex AI)
• SRE experience building and operating production platform systems, with a track record of enabling technical teams (Data Scientists, ML Engineers) through platform capabilities and experience recruiting and developing software engineers

Permanent Perks

At SEEK we offer:

• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days and Volunteer Days, as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 2 weeks paid leave for partners
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

For this role, only those candidates with the eligible right to work will be considered.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.