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.

Senior Scientific Software Engineer, 3D Geometry and Visualisation
Sydney | Full time | Hybrid

The Mission
A global medical technology team designs complex physical products that must fit real human anatomy across massive population diversity. This role exists to turn large scale 3D scan data into practical digital tools that engineers actually use.

You are not building a generic platform. You are building internal software that directly shapes how physical products are designed, sized, and validated.

This is where scientific software meets real-world hardware outcomes.

What You’ll Work On
• Owning and evolving an internal digital anthropometry platform used by engineering teams
• Building cross platform desktop applications using Qt for Python
• Developing interactive 3D visualisation tooling with VTK for shape and fit analysis
• Working hands on with meshes, point clouds, geometry, and population level variation
• Implementing backend algorithms and data processing pipelines that support design decisions
• Translating messy engineering workflows into usable, repeatable software tools
• Driving adoption of digital first workflows across multidisciplinary product teams
• Improving architecture, testing, CI/CD, and long term maintainability without over-engineering

What Matters Here
• Strong experience building software for scientific, engineering, or R&D environments
• Deep comfort working with 3D data, meshes, geometry, and visualisation
• Solid Python engineering fundamentals
• Hands on experience with Qt for Python and VTK or equivalent frameworks
• Enough mathematical and statistical grounding to reason about shape variation and populations
• Ability to work directly with engineers, gather requirements, and influence how tools get used

The Type of Engineer Who Thrives
A scientific programmer who likes owning real tools, not abstract platforms. Someone who enjoys working with geometry, visual data, and physical constraints. Comfortable operating as the only dedicated software engineer in a domain heavy team, and confident enough to challenge workflows when the software can do better.

Not a web generalist. Not a ticket taker. Someone who wants their code to shape real products.

Why This Role Matters
Physical product development is slow and expensive when driven by trial and error. Better digital tools reduce iterations, improve upfront decisions, and raise the quality bar across every product cycle. This role directly influences how efficiently and accurately products are designed.

The "What's In It For Me" Bit
• Senior individual contributor role with clear technical ownership
• Long-term platform work, not short-lived features
• High autonomy and direct access to a varied class of engineering stakeholders
• Exposure to applied 3D geometry, anthropometrics, and medical R&D

If you want to build software where geometry, data, and real world fit actually matter, reach out.

A high energy and outcomes focused consulting firm is bolstering their data engineering capability with a hands-on technical lead to drive platform delivery on a significant government sector engagement. You'll spend your time between the keyboard and the whiteboard: designing production data pipelines, mentoring 2–3 junior engineers, and leading technical direction for client deliverables across the Azure, Databricks, and Snowflake stack.

Day to day, you'll be designing and owning production data pipelines and platform components across Azure, Databricks and Snowflake, doing hands-on engineering rather than just oversight, while leading the technical direction for client engagements. That means making the calls on architecture, modelling approach and tooling trade-offs, and documenting them clearly enough that clients can run the platform without us. You'll set and enforce our engineering standards around testing, CI/CD, security and maintainability, and mentor a team of two or three engineers by reviewing their designs and code and lifting the bar for what we ship. Alongside the technical work, you'll scope engagements with clients, manage delivery plans, translate business problems into technical solutions, and support business development through discovery, estimation and proposals.

You'll likely have eight to ten years of hands-on data engineering behind you, with a track record of shipping production platforms rather than stalled migrations or prototypes. We're looking for deep expertise across Azure, Databricks and Snowflake.

Just as important is the way you work. You're someone who can lead delivery and people while staying hands-on, communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders, and thrive in a consulting environment with shifting context, multiple clients and direct client contact. Australian citizenship is preferred, but no security clearance is required. Azure Data Engineer or Databricks certifications, streaming and real-time data experience, AI/ML enablement, or a consulting background would all be welcome bonuses.

A hybrid setup, with one or two days a week in the office or on client site and the rest from home, paid professional certifications and a real opportunity to shape the engineering culture from within.

While the contract is initially a 6-month fixed term, there's genuine potential to convert to permanent if the engagement extends (the wider pipeline is strong too).

If you've shipped platforms on this stack and want to lead a team without dropping the code, apply or get in touch ronny@theonset.com.au or 0448 808 848.

AI Strategy & Transformation Lead

Sydney | Hybrid | $200K–$250K + Super

Shape the future of AI, transformation, and enterprise capability across a leading Australian business group.

About the Business 

Operating across consumer services, digital platforms, media, fulfilment, payments, and government-connected environments, this Australian business group is investing in the next phase of AI-enabled transformation across the group. This is a rare opportunity to shape how AI is adopted at a group level, across a complex and diverse  array of busienss units  not by inheriting an existing AI function, but by helping define it.

As AI Strategy & Transformation Lead, you will work closely with executive leadership to identify where AI can create genuine business value, establish the frameworks and governance required for responsible adoption, and help shape the roadmap that will guide investment and implementation across the group. This role sits at the intersection of strategy, transformation, technology, and operations. Success will come from your ability to connect business priorities with emerging technologies, influence stakeholders at all levels of the organisation, and drive meaningful change that extends beyond technology alone.

What you'll be responsible for

In this role, you will sit at the intersection of organisational Tehnology development, people change, business transformation, and digital evolution. This role is suited to someone with a strong understanding of organisational design, change management, and technology transformation, rather than deep expertise in a single product, platform, or technical domain.

The successful candidate will be able to influence change across an organisation, align stakeholders around a common vision, and help shape how new technologies are adopted and embedded into day-to-day operations.

This is a strategy and transformation role, not a hands-on builder role.

In this role, you will be responsible for...

• Defining the AI vision, priorities, and transformation roadmap across the group
• Identifying and prioritising AI opportunities based on business impact, feasibility, and ROI
• Establishing governance frameworks and responsible AI practices
• Evaluating platforms, vendors, tooling, and emerging technologies
• Partnering with leaders across operations, customer service, marketing, finance, legal, and technology to identify transformation opportunities
• Leading experimentation, pilot programs, and capability uplift initiatives
• Creating the structure, prioritisation, and accountability required to move from AI experimentation to enterprise adoption
  
  

This role will be a great match for yo if you  have a background in:

• Enterprise AI transformation
• Digital or operational transformation
• Innovation and strategy
• Enterprise technology
• Product or platform strategy
• Consulting or advisory environments
  
  

Most importantly, you'll be someone who has successfully influenced organisation-wide change, worked across complex stakeholder environments, and helped translate emerging technology into measurable business outcomes.

You'll be comfortable operating from the boardroom to frontline teams, balancing strategic thinking with practical execution, and bringing people on the journey as new ways of working are introduced.

Why join?

• Newly created role with broad organisational influence
• Direct exposure to executive leadership
• Opportunity to shape enterprise AI strategy from the ground up
• Work across multiple businesses, operating models, and customer environments
• High-impact transformation mandate with long-term growth potential
• Hybrid Sydney working model
• Circa $200K–$250K + Super

If you're excited by the opportunity to help shape how a well-established Australian business group adopts, governs, and scales AI, we'd love to hear from you.

for more details please contact:  jacquie@theonset.com.au 

Some data scientists want to publish papers. Some want to secure a FAANG logo on their CV.

And then there are the ones who want to be able to explain the work that they do simply at a dinner party. Even if they are building and shipping systems that millions of people use.

The hiring firm is a scale-up processing billions in financial transactions annually. Traditionally data science was seen as a support function - building dashboards, running analyses, supporting other teams’ decisions. But that’s changing.

They’re in the middle of a fundamental shift: data science is moving from analytics to product. These roles will own that shift in one of their highest-impact product areas. You’ll be building systems that help customers understand their decisions, size opportunities, and automate complex workflows. You’ll work on problems like conversion propensity modelling, opportunity sizing, and ML-driven product recommendations.

You’ll report to their Head of Data Science - someone who understands that great data science is about shipping things that matter, not perfect models that sit in notebooks. You’ll own projects end-to-end: from scoping through to customers using your work. And you’ll grow into a technical leader on a team that’s scaling.

This isn’t an analytics role. It’s a product role with deep technical foundation.

At traditional banks and large corporates, data science is often downstream - analytics that supports decisions made elsewhere. You build models that sit in notebooks. Impact is measured quarterly, if at all. Change takes months.

Here, data science is upstream. Your work shapes product direction. Your insights directly influence what millions of users see. An idea you propose on Tuesday can be tested with real users by Thursday. You care about measurement and rigour - not because someone’s forcing you to, but because good systems at scale are expensive and you want to be proud of what ships.

You’re working alongside engineers who care about code quality and deployment. Product managers who understand that measurement matters. A leader who’s been in the technical trenches and knows the difference between elegant theory and pragmatic shipping.

And you’re not alone. You’re part of a growing data science team. Learning from more senior practitioners. Building skills that compound. You’ll be:

• Owning product analytics projects end-to-end (scoping, analysis, experimentation, storytelling)
• Building ML models that inform product decisions and drive feature adoption
• Working hands-on with SQL and Python to explore data and validate hypotheses

Ideal experience:

• 3-5 years of hands-on data science or analytics experience
• Strong SQL and Python skills
• Experience with product analytics
• Statistical thinking - you design experiments, test hypotheses, know when to be sceptical
• Software engineering mindset - clean code, testing, and reproducibility matter to you

Melbourne or Sydney. Hybrid work (1-2 days/week onsite). You’re not commuting daily. You have focused time to code, but you’re in the room when decisions matter.

You’ll also get autonomy to own problems, fast iteration cycles, mentorship from experienced data scientists, and the rare opportunity to help shape how a company thinks about data science at scale.

Interested?

Contact ronny@theonset.com.au / 0448 808 848

Senior Ecosystem Governance Analyst

This is a unique opportunity to join one of the world's leading SaaS platforms and play a critical role in protecting, scaling, and governing a thriving ecosystem of third-party applications.

This role sits at the centre of a large-scale partner ecosystem, ensuring third-party applications meet the highest standards of security, compliance, and platform integrity.

Acting as the bridge between external App Partners and internal API, Developer, Security, Risk & Compliance, and Legal teams, you'll play a critical role in protecting customer trust while enabling partners to build innovative solutions on top of a world-class technology platform.

What You'll Be Doing

You'll work closely with external software partners to ensure integrations meet platform standards, proactively identify and mitigate risks, improve governance frameworks, and help shape the future of a thriving developer ecosystem. Perfect for someone who enjoys operating at the intersection of technology, partnerships, risk, and strategy, and who thrives in environments where influence, problem-solving, and stakeholder engagement are critical to success.

• Lead the onboarding, certification, and governance of strategic app partners integrating with Xero's platform

• Act as a trusted advisor for complex API, security, compliance, and ecosystem-related challenges

• Monitor ecosystem activity to identify risks, undesirable behaviours, and emerging trends

• Drive remediation activities with partners and ensure adherence to platform standards

• Lead strategic governance projects from concept through to delivery

• Collaborate with Product, Security, Risk, Legal, and Engineering teams to continuously improve governance frameworks

• Mentor and support other analysts across the team

• Influence senior internal and external stakeholders to drive positive ecosystem outcomes

What We're Looking For

We're open to a variety of backgrounds, but you'll likely bring experience from one or more of the following areas:

• API Platforms & Developer Ecosystems

• Technical Partner Management

• Platform Governance

• Security, Risk or Compliance

• Technical Customer Success

• SaaS Ecosystem Management

You'll also bring:

• Experience working with APIs, SDKs, developer platforms, or technical integrations

• Strong understanding of security, compliance, and risk management principles

• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills

• Ability to navigate ambiguity and solve complex technical challenges

• Experience leading cross-functional projects and driving outcomes through influence

• Strong analytical capabilities, with SQL or data analysis experience highly regarded

Why This Role?

• Influence the future direction of a global technology ecosystem

• Work with some of the most innovative software companies and developers in the market

• Operate at the intersection of Product, Security, Risk, and Partnerships

• Drive meaningful impact by protecting customer trust and platform integrity

• Join a collaborative, high-performing team that values autonomy, innovation, and continuous improvement

What's on Offer

• Opportunity to work for one of the world's most respected SaaS businesses

• High-impact role with visibility across multiple leadership teams

• Exposure to API platforms, ecosystem strategy, security, and governance at scale

• Flexible and supportive working environment

• Strong career growth opportunities within a world-class technology organisation

If you're passionate about developer ecosystems, platform governance, and helping build secure, scalable technology partnerships, we'd love to hear from you.

for more information please contact Jacquie@theonset.com.au 

 Principal Product Manager - Leading B2B SaaS

Help define the future of a newly launched platform that could reshape how thousands of  B2B  Saas practices run their businesses

Why this role?

• Shape the long-term strategy, commercial model, and future direction of a newly launched global product ecosystem.
• Own complex portfolio-level decisions spanning product strategy, monetisation, go-to-market, and customer growth.
• Partner directly with senior product leadership to solve some of the biggest strategic questions facing the business over the next 3-5 years.
• Market leading Salary +  LTI | work from anywhere in Australia

About the Client

This global SaaS business has spent the last several years building products that support B2B Saas firms firms around the world.

More recently, they've brought multiple products, tools, and workflows together into a single platform experience designed to help practices manage their clients, teams, subscriptions, workflows, insights, compliance activities, and day-to-day operations from one place.

The foundations have been built…The platform has launched…Now comes the harder question….What does this product become next?

About the Role

This newly created Principal Product Manager role has been established to help answer exactly that question.

Reporting into the VP of Product  you'll take ownership of defining the future strategy, vision, and commercial direction of a newly launched platform.

The product already exists. The challenge now is determining how it evolves.

You'll be responsible for helping define:

• What capabilities belong within the platform.
• How deeply the business invests across different customer problems.
• What should be built internally versus solved through partnerships.
• How the product is positioned, packaged, and monetised.
• How the platform supports growth across ANZ, the UK, and North America.
• How multiple products and teams come together to create a cohesive customer experience.

This is not a traditional squad-based product management role.

You won't be spending your time writing user stories or managing sprint ceremonies.

Instead, you'll operate at a portfolio level, bringing together customer insight, commercial thinking, market understanding, and product strategy to help shape one of the company's most important product ecosystems.

About the Candidate

We're looking for someone who thrives in ambiguity and enjoys solving large, complex product challenges.

You'll likely bring:

• Experience defining product strategy for platform, ecosystem, marketplace, or SaaS products.
• Strong commercial acumen with exposure to pricing, packaging, monetisation, or growth strategy.
• The ability to connect customer problems, business objectives, and product investment decisions.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and aligning multiple teams around a common vision.
• A track record of taking complex, ambiguous opportunities and turning them into executable product strategies.
• Strong product discovery, customer research, and market validation capabilities.
• Experience within accounting, fintech, workflow software, professional services technology, or B2B SaaS environments will be highly regarded but is not essential.

What's on Offer

• Opportunity to define the future direction of a newly launched global platform.
• High-impact strategic role with direct influence on product investment and growth decisions.
• Complex portfolio-level product challenges rarely seen in the Australian market.
• Significant exposure to executive product leadership.
• Flexible Australian location.
• Strong product culture with a genuine focus on customer outcomes and long-term thinking.
• The opportunity to shape a platform used by thousands of businesses globally.

for more details please contact jacquie@theonset.com