Senior AI Applied EngineerRemote — Permanent Full TimeAustralia & New Zealand
Starling Surgical
Software Engineering, Data Science
Australia · New Zealand
Posted on Oct 21, 2025
About Envato
At Envato, everything we do is about empowering creatives to thrive.
We're here to help creatives bring their ideas to life, supercharge their workflows, and equip them with an unparalleled toolkit they can use anywhere. With unlimited access to world-class assets, innovative AI tools, and hands-on tutorials, we deliver what creatives need today - and are continually evolving our offering. As AI transforms the creative landscape, we’re committed to building what’s next for the future.
We’re a purpose-driven company and we’ve long embraced flexible, inclusive ways of working. We’re proud of the connected culture we’ve built across our global team. Our values: Community Spirit, Build Our Future, Embrace Diversity, Make It Happen, and Make Envato Proud, guide everything we do, shaping how we work, grow, and succeed.
You can read more about us on our blog, including news of our acquisition by Shutterstock Inc in 2024.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Senior Applied AI Engineer who’s a builder at heart. You’ll use your skills to design and deliver new AI-powered experiences for our customers, while reimagining how we build and ship our own products. If you love AI, solving complex challenges, experimenting and turning ideas into real impact — we’d love to hear from you.
What you'll be doing
- Build and ship AI-powered features that enhance our customer workflows
- Use AI to improve how we work — from smarter dev tools to smoother deployments
- Work across the stack, from hands-on coding to system design
- Collaborate with engineers, PMs, designers, and content specialists to bring ideas to life
- Share knowledge on emerging AI tech, helping the team stay ahead of the curve
- Bring curiosity, creativity, and a bias for action to everything you do
About you
- Strong background in applied AI/ML, with hands-on experience in LLMs, multimodal models, embeddings, and generative tools.
- Proven experience shipping real AI features to real customers
- Skilled in context engineering — designing prompts, retrieval pipelines, metadata integration, and memory/state management to ground AI systems in real product contexts.
- Familiar with orchestration tools like LangChain and skilled at building reliable, maintainable AI systems
- A creative problem-solver who thrives in ambiguity
- A collaborator who can work across product, design, and data to get results
- Energised by fast-moving environments where you can experiment, iterate and make an impact
Life at Envato
• Flexible Working: remote-first with flexibility for you to manage work and life as you need.
• Work from Anywhere: apply to work in another location for up to 3 months per calendar year.
• Connection Budget: an annual budget to connect with the team IRL where and when possible.
• Learning Budget: study leave and an annual budget for you to put towards your learning and development.
• Home Office Allowance: a contribution towards your set-up and a monthly allowance to support work from home costs.
• Wellbeing: access to a holistic assistance program that provides support in many areas of life and health.
• Volunteer Leave: 2 days per calendar year to volunteer and give back to the community.
• Parental Leave:20 weeks paid primary carer leave, and 6 weeks paid secondary carers leave.
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