Senior AI Engineer
Heidi
Melbourne
16 Mar 2026
Senior AI Engineer
Senior AI Engineer role at Heidi, a healthtech startup building an AI Care Partner. Requires expertise in Python, databases, cloud platforms, and scalable system design. Hybrid work model with 3 days in office.
Hybrid
Full-time
Senior
Python
Databases
Salary
Not specified
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
PythondatabasesrelationalNoSQLcloudGCPAWScontainersCI/CDinfrastructure-as-code
Soft Skills
rigorous testingcode-reviewdocumentationhonest feedbacksteady supportshared growth
Preferred Qualifications
Technical (Nice-to-have)
AI/LLM servicesreal-time audio/streaming pipelines
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and build backend services that power LLM-based agents and clinical automations
- Design robust APIs & data models that are secure, observable and easy for other teams to extend
- Optimise performance and cost—profile hot paths, tune databases and right-size cloud resources
- Automate quality: write unit / integration tests, craft alerts and own on-call runbooks so clinicians can trust every interaction
- Partner with product, design and other engineers to ship new capabilities from concept to production in weeks, not quarters
Senior AI EngineerSoftware DevelopmentEngineering and Information TechnologyHealthtechPythonCloudAILLMHybridAustralia