Some data scientists want to publish papers. Some want a FAANG logo on their CV. Others just want to explain their work simply at a dinner party.

For years, data science was a business support function running analyses for "the business". Supporting decisions made elsewhere.

Data science now drives product decisions. People are building systems customers depend on daily, embedding them into core workflows, and investing heavily in measurement and governance. They need a leader to own it.

You'll report to the VP, who is based in the US, but you'll own the strategy and impact of a portfolio of data science work across multiple teams.

And establish governance for AI, data quality, privacy, and model risk. Lead and develop strong managers and senior ICs.

We need someone with 12+ years in data science and proven experience leading managers and operating at enterprise scale.

You've led multiple teams through large strategic programs. You've built platforms or standards that materially improved organisational leverage.

You have strong strategic judgment, excellent executive communication, and the ability to build alignment across senior leaders.

Experience in product, B2B SaaS, or leading responsible AI adoption is highly desirable.

Melbourne or Sydney. Hybrid (1-2 days/week onsite).

Sound like you? I'd love to hear from you - ronny@theonset.com.au or 0448 808 848.

Senior Software Engineer – Security Platform & Detection Engineering

Location: US or Canada (Remote)

6 Month Daily Rate Contract

We're looking for a software engineer with strong platform and SRE experience to help build and operate the systems that power our Detection Engineering and Purple Team functions.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on security telemetry, data pipelines, automation, and platform reliability. You'll work across software development, infrastructure, and security engineering to ensure critical services remain scalable, resilient, and available.

What You'll Do

• Build and maintain automation workflows supporting AI and Detection Engineering initiatives.
• Evaluate, onboard, and operationalise SaaS, Product, Affiliate, and Endpoint log sources.
• Design and maintain log ingestion, transformation, and normalisation pipelines.
• Extend and enhance custom integrations and ingestion capabilities where vendor support doesn't exist.
• Develop log health monitoring, observability, and alerting solutions.
• Monitor and improve the availability, reliability, and performance of security platforms and services.
• Build and maintain tooling that supports Detection Engineering and Security Operations.

What We're Looking For

• Strong software engineering background with experience building production systems.
• Experience with platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure-focused development.
• Strong Python skills (most of our environment is Python-based).
• Experience working with AWS.
• Experience building APIs, services, automation, and data pipelines.
• Understanding of monitoring, observability, and high-availability systems.
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies and work across multiple languages.

Nice to Have

• Cybersecurity, Detection Engineering, or Security Operations experience.
• Experience with Airbyte or similar ingestion platforms.
• Experience with endpoint telemetry, EDR integrations, or security data pipelines.
• Familiarity with React, Node.js, and modern web development.

Why This Role?

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building software, solving infrastructure challenges, and operating critical systems at scale. You'll help shape the platforms and pipelines that underpin security detection, monitoring, and operational resilience across the organisation.

Head of Digital
B2B SaaS | Tech | Compliance | Workforce Management
Sydney | $180K–$200K plus super and bonus

This is a senior leadership role at the centre of a PE-backed B2B tech business undergoing significant transformation across its product portfolio, platform architecture and go-to-market model.

Operating across complimentary yet distinct product lines, the business is entering a critical growth phase with new platform launches, brand evolution and a clear mandate to scale pipeline and revenue performance over the next 12–24 months.

As Head of Digital, you will own and build a predictable, scalable digital growth engine across multiple product lines, driving qualified pipeline, improving conversion and supporting client retention across all digital touchpoints.

You’ll sit at the intersection of marketing, sales and product, reporting to an inspirational, hands-off CMO while operating within a matrix structure with accountability to individual product P&Ls.

What You’ll Own

Digital Acquisition and Growth

• End-to-end strategy across paid, owned and organic channels
• Performance across paid search, paid social, SEO, content, display and partner channels
• Channel mix optimisation based on CAC, LTV and ROAS

Full Funnel Performance

• Conversion optimisation from first touch through to MQL/SQL
• Website, landing page and UX performance (CRO, testing, experimentation)
• Alignment with Sales on lead quality, pipeline velocity and conversion benchmarks

Data, Martech and Attribution

• Ownership of performance metrics: CAC, CPL, ROAS, conversion rates and pipeline contribution
• Evolution of the martech stack (CRM, automation, attribution, analytics)
• Executive-level reporting and commercial insights

Leadership and Scale

• Lead and grow a high-performing digital team
• Build a performance-first, test-and-learn culture
• Scale capability and budget in line with aggressive growth targets

Cross-Functional Influence

• Partner with Sales, Product, Brand and Customer teams
• Influence budget allocation and demonstrate ROI
• Operate effectively within a matrixed, multi-product environment

Retention and Lifecycle Engagement

• Extend digital thinking beyond acquisition into retention and client engagement
• Optimise digital touchpoints across the customer lifecycle
• Support product adoption and reduce churn through digital experience

The Context

• PE-backed business 
• Multi-product environment with distinct P&Ls and growth targets
• Major platform and brand transformation underway
• High expectations for accelerated (“hockey stick”) growth over the next 12–24 months
• Success requires balancing performance across all product lines, not just isolated wins

What You Bring

• Deep expertise in B2B digital marketing, coupled with a passion for and experience leading teams
• Proven experience scaling digital acquisition in multi-product or SaaS environments
• Strong commercial acumen - you think in revenue, not just metrics
• Deep understanding of full-funnel performance and conversion optimisation
• Experience managing budgets ($2M+) and building high-performing teams
• Familiarity with PE-backed environments and operating rhythms - this is essential
• Martech fluency (CRM, attribution, analytics, paid platforms)

What Sets You Apart

• You can clearly demonstrate impact on CAC, ROAS and funnel efficiency
• You’ve built and developed teams, not just inherited them
• You understand ICP, segmentation and how to build acquisition around it
• You think about who you’re acquiring, not just how many
• You bring a strong point of view on where B2B digital is heading (AI search, intent data, dark social)
• You drive performance and accountability without ego

Why This Role

• This is a rare opportunity to step into a true commercial leadership role where digital is a core growth lever, not a support function.
• You’ll shape the strategy, build the capability and directly influence revenue outcomes during a critical transformation phase.

If you feel you meet the requirements and are curious to learn more, please apply online or call Michelle Rubinstein at The Onset on 0413 463 043. 

Growth Marketing Manager - B2B SaaS

High-growth SaaS / ecosystem platform business

• Work for one of the world’s most dynamic digital partner ecosystems
• Own full-funnel acquisition, adoption and partner marketing initiatives at scale
• Drive real commercial impact

We’re partnering with a globally recognised high-growth technology business that’s redefining how businesses connect with software, financial services and digital solutions.

Their partnership ecosystem is a critical growth engine, connecting customers to hundreds of technology and integration partners across a rapidly evolving platform environment.

As the business continues to scale, they’re looking for a commercially minded Growth Marketing Manager to deliver to growth initiatives focused on ecosystem adoption, channel partnerships and customer acquisition.

This is a rare opportunity for a B2B SaaS marketer who thrives at the intersection of:

• Growth strategy
• Digital performance
• Partnerships
• Product marketing
• Data

You’ll play a key role in shaping go-to-market strategy, driving adoption across a large partner network and influencing senior stakeholders across product, GTM, partnerships and marketing functions.

What you’ll be doing

• Develop and execute ecosystem growth marketing strategies aligned to commercial objectives
• Drive awareness, acquisition and adoption initiatives across SMB and advisor/customer audiences
• Lead integrated, full-funnel campaigns across digital, content, partnerships, events and owned channels
• Build and optimise growth programs focused on customer acquisition, cross-sell and partner engagement
• Analyse customer, behavioural and performance data to identify opportunities and optimise activity
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, partnerships, digital, regional GTM and leadership teams
• Manage and optimise multichannel marketing budgets and campaign ROI
• Influence stakeholders at all levels through insight-led recommendations and strategic thinking
• Champion a test-and-learn growth mindset across marketing initiatives

What we’re looking for

• Experience across growth marketing, digital marketing or ecosystem/platform marketing
• Proven experience building and executing integrated growth strategies in fast-paced environments; exposure to large global or matrix-style businesses will be a huge plus
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to connect marketing activity to business outcomes
• Deep understanding of digital acquisition, funnel optimisation and customer growth strategies
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing capability
• Strong analytical capability with confidence interpreting data, insights and performance metrics
• Experience working across complex cross-functional environments
• SaaS, platform, marketplace or high-growth technology experience highly regarded
• Experience across partnership/channel marketing advantageous

Why this opportunity?

• Strategic, high-impact role with significant visibility
• High-performing, collaborative and ambitious culture
• Opportunity to shape growth strategy at scale
• Fast-moving environment with strong executive engagement
• Excellent career trajectory within a globally recognised technology business
• Melbourne or Sydney location with super flex ways of working

If you feel you meet the brief, apply online or call Michelle Rubinstein at The Onset on 0413 463 043.

Junior Production Manager

About the role

We are looking for a Production Manager to take ownership of the systems, processes and day-to-day coordination behind the manufacture of our rail-focused IoT technology.

This is a great opportunity for someone early in their management career who is ready to step up, show initiative and make a visible impact. You will work closely with our engineering team, operations team and production technician to keep production running smoothly, improve how we build and test products, and help ensure high-quality components and assemblies are available when needed.

You will have the opportunity to shape and improve core production processes, from stock control and supplier coordination through to assembly documentation, quality checks, production readiness and factory acceptance testing. As Telemattica continues to grow, this role offers a clear pathway to develop your skills across operations, quality, supplier management and production leadership.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys solving practical problems, taking responsibility for outcomes, and building reliable processes that help turn engineering innovation into products deployed on rail networks around the world.

Key responsibilities

• Coordinate day-to-day production activities with the production technician and engineering team.
• Help plan production builds, ensuring required components, assemblies and documentation are available.
• Manage stock control, component availability and production readiness using MRP, ERP or stock management systems.
• Coordinate with suppliers to support component availability, quality and delivery requirements.
• Develop, maintain and improve production documentation, including assembly instructions, inspection procedures and factory acceptance test processes.
• Support goods inward inspection, in-process checks and final acceptance testing.
• Work with engineering to introduce design changes into production in a controlled and traceable way.
• Identify and implement practical improvements to production efficiency, quality and repeatability.
• Support quality management processes, including those required for ISO 9001 or similar standards.

About you

You are early in your management career and looking for a role you can make your own. You enjoy taking responsibility for a process, working with others to solve problems, and turning engineering work into reliable production outcomes.

You have experience in manufacturing, quality systems or production processes, and you are comfortable making practical decisions independently. You have strong attention to detail, communicate clearly, and are happy working across hands-on production, planning, documentation and supplier coordination.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience in manufacturing, production, quality, operations or a related technical role.
• Tertiary education in engineering, science or a related technical field.
• Experience with MRP, ERP or stock management systems.
• Experience working with manufacturing technicians, production staff or external manufacturers.
• Experience managing suppliers or coordinating component procurement, delivery and quality.
• Experience working with quality processes such as goods inward inspection, in-process checks or factory acceptance testing.
• Ability to create and maintain clear production documentation, such as work instructions, inspection records or test procedures.
• Strong attention to detail and a pragmatic approach to solving production issues.

Nice to have

• Experience working within an ISO 9001 quality management system.
• Experience developing or improving goods inward inspection processes, factory acceptance tests or production quality checks.
• Experience developing assembly instructions, work instructions or production travellers.
• Experience with BOM management, engineering change control or production release processes.
• Previous experience supervising or mentoring a small team.
• Experience with electronics, electromechanical assemblies, IoT devices or industrial products.

Senior Engineer – Practice Lead | Global Financial Services | Sydney

If you're a Principal or Lead Engineer in platform or DevOps, and you're tired of being the person holding everything together while everyone else goes home. This is worth reading.

A globally recognised financial services organisation is looking for someone to own its Telemetry and Analytics practice. That means platform and product ownership of enterprise-scale SIEM and threat intelligence platforms, a live and varied project pipeline, and a small, high-trust team that actually has its act together.

The person who held this role for the past two years told us it's the first job they've had in years where they weren't online every weekend dealing with something platform-related. The support infrastructure here is real. You're not carrying it alone.

What you'll be working on

There's a solid pipeline of technical work ahead. A credential management overhaul spanning source code, pipelines, and release infrastructure; a vendor platform migration; new platform delivery; and active POCs in flight. It's genuinely varied, and it's hands-on. You'll be designing, integrating, and developing platforms rather than babysitting them.

Day to day you'll be working across IaC, CI/CD pipelines, containerisation, and scripting. Building and maintaining the infrastructure that underpins security operations at enterprise scale. You'll work closely with a small, experienced team across Australia and the US, and interface with detection engineers, analysts, and senior stakeholders globally.

What this does for your career

The brand carries weight. Two years here, owning platforms at this scale, delivering complex projects, and operating within a world-class financial services environment is a credible and visible step toward a Director or Principal Architect role. The person before you used it exactly that way.

What you'll bring

A strong DevOps, platform, or release engineering background. Solid hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, Puppet, or Ansible), CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and Linux. Proficiency in Python or Shell. You've worked in an enterprise environment, financial services, insurance, banking, or similar scale and complexity. And you're fluent in governance and compliance without being slowed down by it.

You don't need a security specialism. If you've operated SIEM, log pipelines, or observability platforms from a platform engineering angle, that experience is relevant. You will grow your domain knowledge with this role.

Hit apply or send me a message and I'll get you the full brief.

Julien@theonset.com.au - 0406 158 832

Senior Embedded System Engineer

Sydney | Full-time | Hybrid | $130k-160k + super

The Scroll-stopper

Most senior embedded roles ask you to own firmware.

This one asks you to own the bit where hardware, software and product collide.

A rare opportunity for hands-on exposure to emerging technology; including edge AI accelerators and high-end sensor hardware.

The Org

A small, elite team in Sydney is building a modular wireless sensing platform that spans embedded devices, edge compute, cloud infrastructure and customer-facing applications. The hard part is not writing firmware in isolation. It is figuring out how new capabilities get added, how new sensors get integrated, and how the whole thing stays coherent as the product scales.

You’ll be an early member of a growing engineering team, at one of the Aussie ecosystem's most promising startups. A startup with fresh funding, international clients, and a unique product. A unique product built for a problem space vital to modern life.

You'll work closely to the CTO, and take ownership of the embedded layer across a platform that is already live, already useful, and ready to become much more capable.

The Mission

This is not a narrow firmware seat buried in a backlog.

You’ll sit in the layer between low-level device behaviour and real product capability.

One week you’re bringing up a new sensor.
The next you’re building the Linux-side application that makes its data usable.
Then you’re tracing why something broke three layers upstream.

Whatever your week looks like, your work will contribute to human safety and shield society from immense pressure.

What You’ll Work On

• Build embedded capabilities across a modular wireless sensing platform
• Write Python and C/C++ across Linux and bare-metal environments
• Integrate new sensors from hardware interface through to system output
• Build low-level Linux applications that move data through the stack
• Support firmware, system integration and device-to-cloud data flow
• Work across hardware, software and product to ship new capability fast

What Matters Here

• Strong Python
• Strong C/C++ in Linux
• Working competence with bare-metal C
• Comfortable in low-level Linux environments
• Able to work across hardware, firmware and software layers
• Comfortable reading schematics, bringing up boards and debugging real systems
• Curious, self-directed and happy solving problems that do not arrive neatly labelled

Bonus points for

• ESP-IDF
• Wireless sensor systems
• Debian (ideally Bookworm)
• Raspberry Pi ecosystm (particularly Compute Modules)
• AWS IoT Core or Greengrass
• GStreamer, OpenCV or imaging pipelines

Why It’s Worth Your Time

This is not one of those embedded jobs where you inherit a driver stack and spend three years shaving milliseconds off the same problem.

It's broader.
It's higher impact.
It's more interesting the deeper you go.

Oh look, you're still reading.

Still want to hear more? Apply direct.

Write code that makes the heart of this trading machine beat.

Software Engineer (C++)

Hands-on development role focused on exchange connectivity and rapid execution

The mission

This global High-Frequency Trading ("HFT") firm provides liquidity to global markets, keeping trading action alive globally, open to close. Their two opportunities to win are:

1. Relentlessly developing trading strategies that capitalise on opportunities while they exist
2. Executing on them while they exist, before their competitors*

*Here's where you fit in.

The team

A collection of the world's sharpest mathematical, logical and technical minds across trading, engineering, IT and operations. You'll find your place in a group of engineers responsible for driving excellence in:

• Hardware: FPGAs keep things fast and customisable
• Software: Java, C++, CUDA, Python*
• ML: Actually, this is a secret

*These folks, your new colleagues are divided between core teams, and teams attached to particular trading activities

The control room

State-of-the-art office and lab environment fit for the market's most sought-after talent, complete with the following benefits:

• Generous paid parental leave
• Catered meals, barista coffees, well-stocked kitchen
• Volunteering opportunities, charitable donation matching
• A stacked social calendar
• Family days

The problem

• Insane socio-economic climate + headlines that could be Black Mirror episode titles = market volatility
• Volatility = growth for HFT firms equipped to capitalise (like this one)
• Growth = more brainpower needed to stay ahead

The solution

An engineer with a winning mindset, and likely experience and knowledge of:

• Modern C++ (on Linux) in ultra-low latency CI/CD environments
• Genuine ground-up "build" projects
• Thriving in high-pressure, often ambiguous circumstances
• Outstanding academics in Computer Science, Maths, Physics

Still reading?

Let's explore.

The world’s biggest breakthroughs rarely fail in theory, they fail in execution.

A process works beautifully in the lab, then collapses under real-world constraints.
A technology clears every technical hurdle, then stalls at pilot because no one owns delivery.
A promising system exists, but never quite makes the leap to something you can actually build, install, and run.

This team exists to close that gap.

They operate where science meets engineering reality — taking first-of-a-kind technologies out of the lab and into pilot plants, demonstration facilities, and ultimately commercial scale.

Right now, they’re looking for a Senior Process Engineer who can own that complexity end-to-end

What you'll be doing 
This is not a “sit behind the model” role.
You’ll take ownership of pilot plant delivery — translating experimental results into something that can be designed, built, installed, commissioned, and operated safely.
You’ll work alongside scientists, simulation specialists, fabricators, vendors, and commissioning crews — and you’ll be accountable for making the system work in the real world.

In this role, you will:

• Own the delivery of pilot-scale systems, from early design through to installation and commissioning.
• Translate lab and experimental outcomes into practical, buildable process designs.
• Lead first-of-a-kind process design, embedding scale-up, operability, and safety considerations from day one.
• Prepare and review engineering deliverables including BFDs, PFDs, P&IDs, equipment lists, and preliminary layouts.
• Develop and iterate mass and energy balances, equipment sizing, and process assumptions as data evolves.
• Perform techno-economic assessments to inform design choices and commercial decisions.
• Lead procurement of process and mechanical equipment, working directly with local and international vendors.
• Act as the on-site technical owner during fabrication, installation, commissioning, and troubleshooting.
• Identify technical, commercial, and safety risks early — and actively manage them through delivery.
• Communicate clearly with internal leaders and external stakeholders when trade-offs are required.

What we’re looking for

This role suits someone who has been through pilot delivery before, and understands where theory breaks down.

You’ll be a strong fit if you have:

• A degree in Chemical Engineering
• Hands-on experience delivering pilot plants or demonstration-scale systems — not just contributing to them.
• The ability to move comfortably between modelling, design, site work, and commissioning.
• Experience working with hazardous or corrosive systems, with a strong safety-by-design mindset.
• Sound judgement when data is incomplete and timelines are non-negotiable.
• A track record of owning outcomes, not just producing analyses.
• Clear communication skills — especially when explaining uncertainty, risk, and trade-offs.
  

The Ideal Background

• There’s no single “perfect” background for this role. Strong candidates typically have experience working outside the lab, delivering pilot or demonstration-scale systems in real operating environments.
• You’re likely to have worked with corrosive or hazardous processes, early-stage or first-of-a-kind technologies, and systems where data was incomplete and design assumptions were tested in the field.
• Your experience may come from chemical manufacturing, hydrometallurgy, mineral or metals processing, energy-adjacent technologies, or pilot plant operations. Specific commodity experience is less important than the ability to own delivery, balance safety and operability, and make sound engineering decisions under pressure.
• If you’ve been responsible for getting a pilot plant built, commissioned, and running — not just designed — you’re probably a strong fit.

Why this role is different

You won’t be handed a perfectly defined problem.
You won’t have the luxury of infinite data.
And you won’t be shielded from accountability.

But you will see your work move from concept to something physical, operating, and real — and you’ll know you played a critical role in getting it there.

If you’re motivated by ownership, execution, and seeing complex systems come to life outside the lab, this role will stretch you in the right ways.

Interested?
Reach out to Thaís Amorim at thais@theonset.com.au for a confidential conversation.