Senior AI & Automation Engineer - UpGuard

Job Title: Senior AI & Automation Engineer
Job Location: Sydney
Job Listing URL: https://jobs.lever.co/upguard/0fe482f3-2deb-49df-91bd-e0ddc0e6335e
Job Description: Who are we?
UpGuard’s mission is to protect the world’s data. We obsessively seek out elegant, robust ways to enable our customers to find, acknowledge, and remediate cyber risk. With UpGuard, organizations leverage our security expertise and software to automate what was once laborious, spreadsheet-driven processes–whether it's monitoring the attack surface of hundreds of vendors or assessing the security of their own infrastructure. UpGuard is used by some of the world’s largest, fastest-growing, and most innovative companies.

Our Analytics team at UpGuard supports all of our teams to extract key insights from the data that we collect. We extract data from multiple sources and build insightful dashboards to display key metrics and support leaders to make decisions. We also build integrations between systems to seamlessly collect required data.

Where does this role fit in?

As our founding AI & Automation Engineer, you will democratise AI and automation across UpGuard. Your mission is to build critical n8n workflows and develop domain-specific LLMs that make every UpGuarder more productive.
What will you do?
Develop production-grade integration and automation solutions - Design and implement production-ready automation workflows that integrate cloud services, internal data sources, and LLM endpoints.
Lead the development and deployment of domain-specific LLMs- Fine-tune lightweight models on internal data from Gong, Notion, BigQuery, and other sources, then make them accessible to teams across the organisation through intuitive interfaces.
Establish best practices and patterns for AI and automation across the company - Create templates, documentation, and training materials that enable non-technical teams to build and deploy their own automation workflows confidently.
Embed security & governance - Bake privacy, compliance, and cost controls into every workflow and model deployment, ensuring enterprise-grade reliability and data protection.
Enable widespread adoption - Run hands-on workshops, provide ongoing support, and mentor teammates so anyone at UpGuard can leverage AI and automation tools effectively.
What you’ll bring
Python & SQL: delivered production systems that handle real data and users.
Workflow orchestration: hands-on with n8n, Airflow, Zapier, or similar automation platforms.
AI/LLM experience: Demonstrated experience leading AI/ML projects from conception to production.
Clear communicator: translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and gather business requirements.
Vector/RAG expertise: experience with embeddings, vector databases, or retrieval patterns
Cloud platform experience: deployed and managed systems on GCP, AWS, or Azure
Training mindset: created documentation, tutorials, or enabled others to use technical tools
What’s in it for you
Monthly Lifestyle subsidy: use this for financial, physical and mental wellbeing (all regions)
WFH set-up allowance: to ensure you have the right environment to work in, we will help you get set-up within your first 3 months at UpGuard (all regions)
$1500 USD annual Learning & Development allowance: to support your career development all team members will be able to expense development opportunities against this allowance (all regions)
Generous Annual Leave/PTO allowances: time to recharge your batteries (all regions)
18 weeks paid Parental Leave: irrespective of parenting role (all regions)
Personal Leave allowance: this includes sick & carer’s leave (all regions)
Fully remote working environment: whilst we have physical offices in Sydney & Hobart, we do not mandate compulsory attendance (all regions)
Top spec hardware: all team members will be provided with top-spec laptops for their role (all regions)
Generative AI & Automation tooling: UpGuard provides industry leading generative AI and automation tools to support all team members with their work (all regions)