AD, AI Platform Engineering & Financial Operations (AI)

Location: Melbourne, VIC, Australia; three days in the office and two days remote or from home

Company

hirify.global operates a telecommunications network connecting millions of Australians and is improving the reliability and resilience of its customer experience.

What you will do

• Own the AI platform strategy, roadmap, and capability maturity plan for operational AI, automation, and autonomous network operations.
• Lead the engineering and industrialisation of scalable, secure, and resilient AI runtime platforms and reusable AI services.
• Drive platform integration, model serving, inference performance, and runtime optimisation across operational systems and data platforms.
• Establish AI FinOps, cost management, security, risk, governance, and operational assurance practices.
• Measure and improve platform performance, availability, adoption, capacity utilisation, and operational value.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and strategic technology partnerships while developing the AI platform engineering capability.

Requirements

• Experience engineering and operating enterprise AI/ML platforms, model-serving environments, or high-scale runtime services.
• Strong knowledge of AI infrastructure, cloud, GPU/CPU compute, model routing, inference, vector databases, observability, and platform engineering.
• Strong understanding of AI FinOps, consumption-based cost management, capacity optimisation, and cloud and AI services.
• Experience defining platform strategy, engineering standards, governance, and roadmaps and converting them into measurable operational outcomes.
• Ability to lead cross-domain teams and influence senior stakeholders across Engineering, Operations, Architecture, Security, Finance, and Technology.
• Commercial, financial, and vendor management experience, plus relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent industry experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid working with three office days and two remote or home-working days.
• Competitive remuneration, employee discounts, an $80 monthly credit, and 25% off hirify.global products.
• Competitive leave policies, including additional Connected days and up to 16 weeks of paid carer-neutral parental leave.
• Professional development through hirify.global U micro-credentials developed with La Trobe and Macquarie Universities.
• Employee-led diversity networks and 24/7 counselling and wellbeing support.