AI Engineer (Hands-On)

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Build the AI function at an Australian engineering company. Based in Hanoi, hands-on, and yours to own.
This is our first artificial intelligence hire. You would report to a company director in Perth, you would be the only person doing this work, and you would build it yourself. We care more about what you have shipped and how you work with people than about how many years you have been doing it.
About Western Environmental
• An environmental remediation and technology company of about forty people, head office based in Perth, Australia.
• We clean up contaminated land, decommission industrial plant and develop our own treatment technology, including a smouldering combustion process we invented and hold the patents on.
• We work across Australia and Southeast Asia, including dioxin and contaminated land projects in Vietnam with our partner there.
• We are not a software company, which is exactly why this role exists.
Where you would sit
• You would work from the Hanoi office of our Vietnamese partner, an environmental consultancy we work with on projects here, with a desk alongside their team. You would not be working alone from home.
• That partner would be your legal employer in Vietnam and would handle your pay, tax and social security. Western Environmental would direct your work.
• Perth runs on Australian Western Standard Time, one hour ahead of Hanoi, so there is no awkward overlap and no night work.
• Expect one or two trips to Perth in the first year, including time in the field, so you understand what the business actually does. We pay for those.
What you would be doing
First, fix our own systems:
• Laboratory data and field records that take a week of manual handling before anyone can analyse them.
• Several thousand technical documents, standards and past reports that nobody can search properly, so the same question gets answered from scratch every time.
• Regulatory reporting where the format is rigid, the content is not, and the drafting eats senior people's weeks.
Then, get forty people using what you build:
• Most are technical but not software people, and some are sceptical with reason. The tools have to be good enough that people choose to use them.
• You would put sensible guard rails around client and project data so people can use the tools safely.
Then, build the capability into the business:
Two of our engineers want to move into this work, and developing them is part of the role. You would stay the person who designs and builds. This is not a step towards managing a team.
Internal First, Then External:
• We expect some of what you build to become commercial in its own right. That intention is real but the detail is undefined, and we would rather say so plainly than dress it up.