Senior Electrical / Electronics Engineer

Sydney | Full-time | Onsite / Hybrid

The Mission

Own the hard electronics gap between prototype and product across 13 to 15 custom boards, high-speed compute, Jetson architecture, sensing, power and compliance.

The Challenge

• Designing and reviewing complex embedded PCBs across compute, sensing, power and robotics electronics
• Working with PCIe, Ethernet, Nvidia Jetson and other high-speed board-level constraints
• Taking prototype electronics toward manufacturable, testable and compliant product hardware
• Building EMC / EMI, intrinsic safety, protection and reliability thinking into design decisions early
• Reviewing schematics, layouts, BOMs and component choices before issues become field or production problems
• Creating practical verification, pre-compliance and production test plans that support real release decisions
• Working tightly with mechanical, firmware and manufacturing teams where board design, packaging and build reality collide
• This is senior IC work for someone who wants real ownership of complex hardware, not one small slice of a slower machine

The Bar

• Strong schematic and PCB design experience, ideally in Altium
• High-speed digital or compute-board experience, especially PCIe, Ethernet or similar
• Experience taking embedded electronics beyond R&D and into real products
• Practical EMC / EMI design judgement across layout, grounding, shielding, filtering and cabling
• Strong understanding of power distribution, switching regulators, mixed-signal design and protection
• Comfort reviewing others’ work and giving clear technical direction without turning it into theatre
• Manufacturing, test, compliance or certification exposure in hardware that had to survive real use
• Jetson's highly regarded. Intrinsic safety's highly regarded. Motor control's useful. Complex board ownership matters most

The Hire

Someone who has seen boards behave on the bench and misbehave everywhere else.

• You understand that the hard part is not just making the circuit work. It is making it work inside a compact robot with motors, batteries, sensors, cables, compliance expectations and manufacturing variance
• You are hands-on, senior enough to challenge assumptions, and still practical enough to move at startup pace

The "Why me?"

• The team has built impressive prototypes. The next stage needs senior electrical depth across complexity, review, scale-up and productisation
• This role exists to help the hardware become repeatable, compliant and reliable before the same problems scale

The "Why this?"

• Work across 13 to 15 custom boards, not one narrow subsystem
• Help shape the electrical function before it becomes rigid
• Influence how hardware moves from prototype into manufacture
• Stay close to real engineering trade-offs across compute, sensing, power, safety and mechanics
• Join a growing lab environment with proper electrical setup planned as the company scales

If you like complex embedded hardware and the uncomfortable bit between prototype and product, reach out

R&D Machinist / CNC Operator

Sydney | Full-time | Onsite

The Mission

Bring 5-axis CNC in-house and become the person who turns small, awkward, high-tolerance robot parts into fast R&D iteration. 

The Challenge

Programming, setting and operating a 5-axis CNC for small, complex metal prototype parts.

Solving workholding, jigging, soft-jaw and fixture problems for parts that are difficult by nature:

• Making *tiny* gears, compact components, assembly aids and test fixtures that speed up hardware development
• Working with aluminium, stainless steel, brass and other prototype metals where fidelity matters
• Feeding practical DFM advice back to engineers before awkward geometry becomes a recurring problem
• Supporting module builds, gearbox work and hands-on integration where machining meets mechatronics
• Helping build the internal rapid-manufacturing capability around modern equipment and fast iteration

This isn't production machining, job-shop repetition or parts-per-day output. It's R&D machining for someone who likes solving the part before cutting it.

The Bar

• Proven ability to program, set and operate 5-axis CNC machines
• Experience making small, complex, high-tolerance components
• Strong fixture, jig, soft-jaw and workholding problem-solving ability
• Enough experience to look at a difficult part and know where the real manufacturing risk sits
• Comfort working from a clear backlog without needing step-by-step supervision
• Expert communicator: work with the engineering team to drive optimal, commercial design behaviours

Gears are highly regarded. Swiss-type CNC's a serious bonus. 

Trade qualifications are useful, but aptitude and adaptability matter more.

The Hire

• Someone who gets interested when the part's tiny, annoying to hold or awkward to fixture
• You care about clean setups, smart process, good feedback and making the next version easier than the last one
• You'll need enough experience to add capability immediately, but the right attitude isn't “I make what I’m given”. It's “I can make this, but here’s how to make it smarter next time”

The "Why me?"

• External suppliers can make parts. They can't sit inside the engineering loop
• This role exists to shorten the distance between design, machined part, physical test and next revision

The "Why this?"

• • Own early internal 5-axis CNC capability
  • Work with modern equipment in a growing R&D lab
  • Make difficult, high-value parts for a real robotics product
  • Influence how engineers design for manufacture
  • Avoid repetitive production work and unit-cost obsession
  • Be part of the design loop, not treated like an external supplier

If you're the person people ask when a part looks impossible, we should talk.

Principal Product Manager | AI Experiences

East Coast Australia | Hybrid

Shape the customer experience for one of Australia's most ambitious AI product programs, defining how millions of people interact with intelligent agents in the future of software.

• Principal-level AI Product role focused on customer experience, not backend platform.
• Own conversational, agentic, multimodal and adaptive UI experiences across web and mobile.
• Ideal for a product leader with strong UX craft, AI product thinking and senior stakeholder influence.
  
  

We're partnering with one of Australia's leading technology companies to find a Principal Product Manager who will help define what the future of AI-native software feels like for millions of customers.This is an opportunity to shape how people interact with an intelligent AI agent, reimagining software beyond menus, forms and dashboards into experiences that feel intuitive, trusted and genuinely useful.

You'll own the customer experience for a next-generation AI product, designing how customers interact with conversational interfaces, generative and adaptive UI, multimodal experiences, workflow delegation and intelligent automation. The goal isn't to build another chatbot. It's to create an AI experience that acts more like a trusted coworker, helping customers complete meaningful work while keeping them confidently in control.

This is one of the highest-profile Product roles within the organisation's AI strategy, offering the opportunity to influence the future of AI-powered experiences used by millions of customers globally.

What you'll be doing

• Define the long-term product vision for a customer-facing AI experience across web and mobile.
• Reimagine end-to-end workflows using conversational, agentic and multimodal interaction patterns.
• Design experiences that enable customers to confidently delegate work to AI while maintaining transparency, trust and control.
• Partner closely with Product Design, Engineering and AI teams to transform emerging capabilities into intuitive customer experiences.
• Shape how AI surfaces recommendations, actions, notifications and contextual information throughout the customer journey.
• Define product success through customer adoption, engagement, trust, retention and behavioural insights.
• Influence senior stakeholders and align multiple product organisations around a shared AI vision.

We're looking for someone who has

• Extensive Product Management experience leading large-scale customer-facing digital products.
• Experience building AI-powered, conversational, agentic or intelligent product experiences that customers actively use.
• Outstanding product craft and customer empathy, with a proven ability to simplify complex technology into elegant user experiences.
• Deep partnership experience with Product Design, particularly across interaction design, UX and modern interface patterns.
• Strong knowledge of generative AI, multimodal experiences, AI agents or intelligent workflow automation.
• Experience defining product strategy in highly ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• A proven ability to influence senior leaders and align cross-functional teams around a shared vision.

You'll stand out if you've worked on

• AI assistants or copilots
• Agentic products
• Conversational interfaces
• Generative or adaptive UI
• Consumer-scale web or mobile products
• Intelligent workflow automation
• Human-in-the-loop AI experiences

This role probably isn't for you if...

• Your experience has primarily focused on platform, infrastructure or backend products.
• Your AI experience has been limited to integrating LLMs or adding AI features into existing products.
• Your background is primarily delivery-focused rather than defining long-term product strategy and customer experience.
• You haven't owned sophisticated customer-facing digital experiences.

If you're excited by the opportunity to redefine how millions of people interact with AI every day, we'd love to hear from you.

For a confidential discussion, please contact:

Jacquie Nolan | jacquie@theonset.com.au

Shape the future of early careers in a leading technology organisation

Competitive Salary + Employee Share Plan (ESP) | Flexible Hybrid | Additional Leave Benefits + more

This is an opportunity to take ownership of a well-established Junior Talent Programme and shape what it becomes next.

Working closely with Engineering, Product and People leaders, you'll design and evolve how junior talent is on-boarded, developed and supported across the business.

This isn't a graduate recruitment role. The attraction and hiring of talent already exists. Your focus is what happens next - creating exceptional experiences, development pathways and long-term growth opportunities for junior talent.

You'll have the opportunity to influence programme strategy, future capability planning and the overall experience of junior talent from day one.

What you'll be doing

• Design and continuously improve the overall programme experience
• Develop on-boarding, team placement and development pathways
• Build scalable frameworks that support junior talent from day one
• Create a consistent and engaging experience across the programme
• Understand future capability requirements across engineering and product teams
• Help ensure junior talent development aligns with future workforce needs
• Build trusted relationships with leaders across Product & Technology
• Support leaders to successfully integrate and develop junior talent
• Track programme performance and outcomes
• Measure retention, engagement and conversion success
• Identify opportunities for improvement and innovation
• Ensure the programme remains aligned to broader business priorities

What we're looking for

Experience in Early Careers, Graduate Programs, Talent Development, L&D or People Experience within a technology or SaaS environment, partnering closely with Engineering and Product leaders. You understand how software engineering and product teams operate and can confidently partner with technical leaders on capability development, learning pathways and future talent needs. You'll also understand how the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) influences learning pathways, performance expectations and career growth for junior technical talent.

You'll bring:

• Experience owning or managing graduate, early careers or junior talent programmes
• Strong programme management and stakeholder engagement skills
• Experience working with technical stakeholders and Product & Technology teams
• An understanding of how technology organisations operate
• Curiosity about future capability needs, AI and workforce development
• The ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on delivery

What's on offer?

• Competitive salary package + Employee Share Plan (ESP)
• Flexible hybrid working
• Additional leave benefits
• Strong wellbeing and health benefits
• Inclusive employee communities and resource groups
• High visibility across Product, Engineering and People leadership
• Opportunity to influence a strategically important programme with executive sponsorship
• Work alongside experienced Product & Technology leaders in a highly regarded technology organisation

This is a role where you'll have the autonomy to make meaningful change while being supported by one of the most respected technology brands in the market.

If you're passionate about helping early career talent thrive and want to shape the future workforce of a leading technology organisation apply now or contact Geri Condon at The Onset on geri@theonset.com.au

A global enterprise is growing its Cyber Threat Detection & Response team.

This isn't a traditional SOC where you'll spend your day clearing queues or chasing false positives. The fundamentals are already well covered, allowing the team to focus on higher-value work.

You'll investigate sophisticated threats, improve detection capabilities, hunt for adversary activity, and work closely with engineering teams to strengthen security controls. Depending on your experience, you'll either focus on deep technical investigations or lead the coordination of cyber security incidents, with opportunities to develop across both areas over time.

Tier 1 monitoring has largely been removed from the model, with technology owners responsible for first-line monitoring. That allows this team to concentrate on complex investigations, incident response, threat hunting and continuously improving the organisation's defensive capability.

This is a team that wants to understand how attackers operate, improve detection logic, and build stronger relationships across engineering, infrastructure and security teams—not simply work through an endless stream of routine alerts.

What they're looking for

• Experience investigating security incidents within a SOC, Cyber Defence or Incident Response environment.
• Strong SIEM experience (Splunk or similar), including alert investigation, detection tuning or rule creation.
• Hands-on EDR experience, with the ability to investigate endpoint activity and understand attacker behaviour.
• Strong understanding of phishing investigations, including analysing email headers, links, attachments and indicators of compromise.
• Knowledge of attacker tactics, techniques and procedures (MITRE ATT&CK).
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work with both technical teams and business stakeholders.

Whether your background is more technical investigation or incident response coordination, you'll join a mature cyber security function focused on solving complex security problems rather than simply responding to alerts.

russell@theonset.com.au / 0438984265

Principal Engineer – Java | Payments

Sydney | Permanent

Shape the Future of Payments Engineering

A leading financial services provider is investing in the next generation of its real-time payments platform and is looking for a Principal Engineer to help define what's next.

This is an opportunity to work at the forefront of modern software engineering, building highly scalable, cloud-native payment systems that process mission-critical financial transactions. You'll have the autonomy to shape technical strategy, influence architecture across multiple engineering teams and drive the adoption of emerging technologies—all while remaining hands-on and close to the code.

We're looking for an engineer who is passionate about solving complex technical challenges, enjoys driving innovation and is excited by how AI is transforming the software development lifecycle.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design and build highly scalable Java services powering modern payment platforms.

• Drive architecture across distributed, event-driven microservices handling high-volume, low-latency transaction processing.

• Develop resilient payment orchestration capabilities supporting multiple payment rails and transaction flows.

• Shape technical roadmaps and influence engineering strategy across multiple teams.

• Lead complex engineering initiatives from concept through to production.

• Remain hands-on, contributing code while mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards.

• Champion AI-assisted software development, leveraging modern tooling to improve developer productivity and software quality.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to improve platform capability, scalability and customer outcomes.

• Ensure systems are secure, resilient and designed to meet the demands of large-scale financial services.

About You

You'll likely be operating as a Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, Technical Architect or Senior Technical Lead with a passion for building large-scale distributed systems.

You'll bring:

• Expert Java and Spring Boot experience.

• Strong cloud engineering capability across AWS and/or GCP.

• Deep expertise in microservices, distributed systems, event-driven architecture and modern integration patterns.

• Experience building payment platforms, payment orchestration services or other high-throughput financial systems.

• A strong understanding of payment ecosystems, including card payments, issuer/acquirer integrations, Open Banking or real-time payment processing.

• Knowledge of secure software engineering practices for financial systems and mission-critical transaction processing.

• Proven experience driving architecture, influencing technical strategy and mentoring engineering teams while remaining hands-on.

• Practical experience embedding AI into the SDLC using modern engineering tools such as Claude Code, Roo Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, GitHub Copilot or similar.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.

Why Join?

This is more than a Principal Engineer role—it's an opportunity to shape the future of engineering within one of Australia's leading financial services organisations.

You'll work alongside high-calibre engineers solving complex distributed systems challenges, influence the technical roadmap of a business-critical payments platform and help define how emerging technologies and AI are embedded into modern software development.

If you're looking for a role where you can combine architectural leadership, hands-on engineering and genuine innovation, we'd love to hear from you.

Product Manager | Checkout Experiences

Every online purchase is a series of moments that can delight customers, remove friction and drive meaningful commercial impact. This is your opportunity to own one of the most critical customer journeys within a leading Australian retailer, shaping how millions of customers purchase online every year.

Why you'll love this opportunity

• 12 month day rate contract | $1100 per day Inc Super 
• Own one of the highest-impact product portfolios, directly influencing customer experience, conversion and online revenue.
• Shape the future of a large-scale ecommerce platform through experimentation, data and customer-led product strategy.
• Join a business making significant investment across digital, AI and next-generation commerce capabilities.W

We're partnering with one of Australia's leading retail and ecommerce businesses as they continue investing in the evolution of their digital product organisation. As the business expands beyond traditional retail into Marketplace, AI-powered shopping and new omnichannel experiences, they're reimagining how customers discover, purchase and receive products.

As Product Manager for Checkout experiences , you'll own the end-to-end purchasing journey from Add to Cart through to Order Confirmation, ensuring customers can complete purchases quickly, seamlessly and with as little friction as possible. Working across web, app and emerging commerce experiences, you'll help shape the next evolution of the purchasing journey while delivering measurable improvements in customer experience, conversion and commercial performance. This remit spans far beyond payments, sitting at the intersection of customer experience, platform capability and business growth.

The role

You'll be responsible for:

• Defining the product strategy and roadmap across Cart, Checkout, Payments and the broader purchasing journey.

• Simplifying increasingly complex customer journeys created through Marketplace, multiple fulfilment options, promotions and evolving commerce experiences.

• Identifying customer pain points and using experimentation, analytics and customer insights to improve conversion and reduce checkout abandonment.

• Delivering new checkout capabilities including payment enhancements, one-click purchasing, partial checkout and future commerce experiences.

• Partnering closely with Engineering, Design, Architecture and Commercial teams to deliver scalable customer-facing products.

• Supporting major business transformation initiatives, including fulfilment modernisation and future omnichannel shopping experiences.

• Working alongside BIG W's emerging AI and Agentic Commerce initiatives, ensuring next-generation shopping experiences seamlessly transition into purchase and payment.

What we're looking for

You'll bring experience with:

• Product Management within ecommerce, retail, marketplaces or consumer digital products.

• Owning customer-facing commerce experiences such as Checkout, Cart, Payments, Purchase Journey or Conversion Optimisation.

• Building products across web and mobile customer experiences rather than back-office or in-store operational systems.

• Using product analytics, customer research, experimentation and A/B testing to inform product decisions.

• Working closely with Engineering, Design and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver complex digital products.

• Balancing customer experience, technical constraints and commercial outcomes to make confident product decisions.

• Thriving in fast-moving environments where multiple teams, dependencies and priorities come together to deliver exceptional customer experiences.

Product Manager | AI Commerce & Agentic Experiences

Help shape how millions of Australians shop in an AI-first world.

• Lead one of Australia's first enterprise-scale Agentic AI and Conversational Commerce product portfolios.
• Define the future of AI-powered shopping experiences beyond traditional websites and mobile apps.
• Join a market-leading retailer making significant long-term investment in AI, digital innovation and the future of customer experience.
• 12 month day rate contract  |$1100 per day inc Super 

The Company

We're partnering confidentially with one of Australia's largest and most recognised retail and ecommerce organisations as they embark on the next phase of their AI transformation.

Backed by significant new strategic investment, the business is building a new generation of AI-powered shopping experiences that will redefine how customers discover products, shop and engage with the brand. Rather than simply embedding AI into existing products, they're creating entirely new customer experiences through conversational commerce, autonomous agents and emerging AI ecosystems.

This is a rare opportunity to join a business investing heavily in the future of retail and help shape one of Australia's most ambitious AI commerce programs.

The Role

Reporting to the Grouo Product Manager, you'll own the vision, strategy and roadmap for a newly established Off-Canvas AI & Agentic product portfolio.

You'll be responsible for:

• Defining the long-term strategy for AI-powered commerce and conversational shopping experiences.
• Building Agentic AI capabilities that enable customers to discover products, compare options, purchase and receive support through AI assistants.
• Driving product strategy across Generative AI, LLMs, conversational interfaces and emerging AI technologies.
• Partnering closely with Engineering, Data, Design, Merchandising and Marketing to bring AI capabilities into production.
• Balancing customer outcomes, technical capability and commercial priorities to deliver measurable business impact.
• Identifying new opportunities to drive customer acquisition, revenue growth and service efficiency through AI.

The Candidate

You'll be an experienced Product Manager who enjoys working at the intersection of emerging technology, customer experience and commercial outcomes.

You'll bring experience across several of the following:

• Generative AI, LLMs or Agentic AI products.
• Platform or API product management.
• Conversational AI or AI-powered customer experiences.
• Ecommerce, retail or digital commerce platforms.
• Product strategy, discovery and commercial prioritisation.
• Working alongside Engineering teams to deliver complex technical products and platforms.

You'll be naturally curious, commercially minded and excited by the opportunity to build products that redefine how customers interact with a leading Australian retailer.

What's on Offer

• Highly attractive 12-month day rate contract.
• Strong likelihood of extension, backed by a significant multi-year AI investment program.
• Opportunity to help build one of Australia's first enterprise-scale Agentic AI commerce platforms.
• Join a high-performing Product team delivering genuinely greenfield AI initiatives.
• Sydney-based hybrid working with strong executive sponsorship and visibility.

Principal Design Technologist

Our client is hiring a Principal Design Technologist to build and scale an AI native design practice across their product suite.

Here's what we're actually looking for:

You've shipped AI augmented work. Not just used Claude Code or Cursor - actually built with them. Custom Figma plugins, design system tooling, interactive prototypes, component migration helpers. Work that's made it to production and changed how your team works.

You've scaled design at org level. Maybe it was a design system across 30+ products. Maybe you took a design function from zero to a mature team. Either way, you have evidence: adoption metrics, org-wide influence, a track record of making the people around you better.

You think in systems. Conceptual modelling, reusable primitives, reasoning about what's underneath the surface. You turn messy, technical domains into something intuitive without losing the rigor underneath.

You have opinions about AI in design. Not just excitement - critical thinking. You've evaluated tools and walked away from some. You know when to automate and when to insist on the human.

You can reason from code. Front end, data visualisation, ML/OCR experience - something that means you design for what's actually buildable and talk fluently with engineers about trade-offs.

Portfolio bar is high. We're looking at Figma libraries, design systems, speaking gigs, public work that reflects your thinking. Craft matters. Detail matters. Foundation matters.

The role: Hands on and leadership at once. You'll design and ship production work. You'll build the tooling and workflows that let your team design better than they could alone. You'll have a seat at the table shaping what design-technology becomes across the org.

This is for: Staff/Principal level ICs who've also led teams. 

If this resonates, we'd love to talk about scaled AI native design practice, how you'd build it, and what you've shipped.

Apply with your portfolio link and resume. Applications without a portfolio will not be considered.

Product Manager - Marketplace

Permanent | Melbourne CBD | Hybrid | $160k + super  + Bonus 

We're partnering with one of Australia's largest digital commerce businesses that's investing heavily in the future of online marketplaces. Their product team is building the platform powering thousands of third-party sellers across multiple retail brands, combining enterprise scale with the pace and autonomy of a modern product organisation.

About the role

This is an opportunity to own high-impact marketplace features from discovery through to launch, improving the experience for customers, sellers and internal teams.

What you'll be doing

• Own the product roadmap and backlog for key marketplace platform capabilities.
• Lead product discovery, define user stories and translate complex business problems into simple product solutions.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Design and Operations to deliver high-quality product outcomes.
• Prioritise initiatives based on customer value, commercial impact and technical feasibility.
• Use customer research, experimentation and analytics to continuously improve product performance.
• Define success metrics, monitor KPIs and communicate product vision and roadmap across the business.

What we're looking for

• 4+ years' experience as a Product Manager delivering digital products, platforms or SaaS solutions.
• Strong experience working in Agile environments with ownership of backlogs, roadmaps and product delivery.
• Ability to turn complex stakeholder requirements into clear product requirements and user stories.
• A data-driven approach with experience using analytics, customer insights and experimentation to guide decisions.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to influence across technical and business teams.

Why this opportunity?

• Join a business making significant investment in digital products and marketplace technology.
• Own meaningful platform features used by millions of customers and thousands of sellers.
• Work alongside experienced Product, Design and Engineering leaders in a highly collaborative environment.
• Enterprise stability with the pace, autonomy and impact of a growing product team.

If you’re excited by the opportunity, please apply online or call Ana Macedo at The Onset on 0403 748 727