AI Automation Engineer

Our consultancy partner is placing an AI automation engineer into a product company for 6 months, based in Melbourne. This engineer will be building production AI automation, not demos. Think Claude plus N8N (or UiPath), wired into real business processes like invoice processing. It's hands-on and a bit forward-deployed. You'd map the process with the client, decide what the AI handles versus what stays deterministic, then build it, test it and hand it over.

What you'll do

• Map manual processes and decide what gets automated, what stays deterministic code, and where Claude does the reasoning
• Build workflows in N8N (Workato or UiPath experience is a bonus) with Claude as the reasoning layer
• Design guardrails, retries, fallbacks, and audit trails so one bad AI output never cascades
• Explain the architecture to non-technical stakeholders

What you bring

• Production experience with Claude or other LLMs
• Hands-on N8N or similar workflow tooling
• A disciplined AI-assisted engineering workflow
• A cost-aware mindset on tokens, model choice, and judge or evaluator layers
• Consulting-style communication, ideally some client-facing experience
• Ideally you can code and you're comfortable with fullstack software development processes

The details

• 6 month contract, Melbourne based
• $750 + GST
• Start: Immediate