AI Product Engineer

Neara uses advanced machine learning to create engineering-grade, physics-enabled digital twins of electricity grids across four continents, helping asset owners understand challenges and bring viable solutions to life. The AI Product Engineer will ship LLM and agentic features into a product utilities use to make decisions about critical infrastructure, and help set how Neara builds with AI across engineering. This is a new team; the role focuses on the product layer (LLMs, agents, retrieval and tool use) and does not include computer vision or core ML platform work. No agencies or third-party service providers, please.

Responsibilities

Design, prototype and ship AI-powered features end to end; Build agentic and retrieval-based systems grounded in the Neara digital twin, simulation outputs and internal expression language; Make AI output trustworthy by designing guardrails, refusals, confidence signals and human-in-the-loop checkpoints; Build the evaluation discipline (eval sets, regression testing, offline and online quality signals, observability, prompt and context versioning, cost and latency budgets); Work alongside power systems and GIS specialists to ensure engineering-grade output; Spend time with customers and work with Product, Design and customer-facing teams to decide what to build; Set the standard for how Neara engineers build with AI, including use of coding agents

Requirements

5+ years building and shipping production software, with real depth in backend or full-stack product engineering; Shipped AI features to paying customers in a commercial product and owned them after launch; Hands-on experience with retrieval, context engineering, tool use, agent orchestration, structured output, and prompt design; Takes evaluation seriously and can describe an eval approach built, what it caught, and what it missed; Sound judgement about where AI should and should not be used, with the instinct to design for failure modes; Strong product sense and comfort working directly with users and product teams, including expert users; Current and unrestricted working rights (no visa sponsorship offered); Nice to have: experience shipping into regulated or enterprise environments (data residency, auditability, private deployments, security review); Geospatial, 3D, CAD, simulation or other engineering software backgrounds; Experience with TypeScript/React, Python, Java, Dart/Rust; Utilities, energy or critical infrastructure domain knowledge

Nice to have

Experience shipping into regulated or enterprise environments (data residency, auditability, private deployments, security review); 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; Working on a complex, innovative, industry-leading product