Opportunities in South Melbourne, Australia

Full Job Description

The Bigger Picture

At Andromeda, we're building the social intelligence layer for humanoid robots - technology that allows robots to understand people, build relationships and become a meaningful part of everyday life.

Our first robot, Abi, is already doing this in aged care and healthcare, where she brings conversation, companionship and engagement to people every day.

Now we're scaling from early deployments into a platform that can operate across thousands of real-world environments. We're looking for individuals who want to tackle hard problems across robotics and AI, and help define what it means for robots to live and interact alongside people.

Our Values

• Empathy – Kindness and compassion are at the heart of everything we do.
• Play – Play sharpens focus. It keeps us curious, fast and obsessed with the craft.
• Never Settle – A relentless ambition, bias toward action, and uncomfortable levels of curiosity.
• Tenacity – Tenacious under pressure, we assume chaos and stay in motion to adapt and progress.
• Unity – Different minds. Shared mission. No passengers.

How You'll Make an Impact

We are looking for a software engineer to join our AI Engineering team, which owns Abi’s conversational harness. Our conversational harness is the principal integration point of the stack, and the most customer-facing engineering surface at Andromeda. We tie several systems together into a cohesive persona, interfacing with firmware, robotics software, onboard machine learning systems and cloud services to turn user input into intelligent, context-aware responses. We maintain Abi’s memories, personality, and activities to build an engaging companion for our customers.

We're hiring a Software Engineer to own meaningful parts of this stack: voice pipeline orchestration, conversational state management, memory and recall systems, and the evaluation and telemetry infrastructure that tells us whether Abi is getting better or worse in the field.

This is a hands-on, production-focused role. You'll build systems that run on edge hardware in aged care homes. These are environments with ambient noise, unreliable networks, and real people who depend on Abi working reliably at 3am, not just in a demo. You'll own the instrumentation that measures how well those systems are performing, and use that data to drive what gets built next.

You'll work across the full lifecycle: design, implement, instrument, deploy, observe, improve. Your work will directly shape how customers experience Abi and play a central role in the quality, trust, and capability of the company's core product.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, debug, and maintain production AI software systems across voice, conversational state, and memory/recall workflows.
• Own and improve critical parts of the intelligence stack, including turn-taking, conversational state orchestration, memory retrieval, prompt and context window management, and the output behaviours that define Abi's personality in customer interactions.
• Build and maintain telemetry, instrumentation, and quality metrics across the stack. Use data to identify regressions, measure improvements, and inform prioritisation, not just ship features and hope.
• Evaluate and integrate voice and language foundation models, making informed tradeoffs between accuracy, latency, cost, and resource consumption on constrained hardware.
• Improve software quality across reliability, performance, maintainability, and observability, with a bias toward stability in production over velocity in development.
• Build resilient systems that handle the real world gracefully: ambient noise, partial utterances, network drops, hardware variance, and unexpected power cycles.
• Communicate clearly, document decisions well, and take ownership of outcomes end-to-end.

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent building and operating production application software
• A strong mental model of state handling. You can think naturally in terms of state machines, behaviour trees, or equivalent patterns, and can reason clearly about complex system lifecycle and transitions under real-world conditions.
• Experience with systems design and systems engineering, whether in a cloud or embedded context.
• Strong experience with hard concurrency problems and asynchronous programming and infrastructure paradigms.
• Experience with evaluating and selecting third-party software solutions, such as but not limited to development tools and model candidates.
• Comfort working on resource-constrained or edge hardware, understanding latency budgets, CPU/memory profiling, and deployment to non-cloud targets.
• Experience with ownership of a sub-system end to end, from creation to delivery. With evidence of learning and working through the challenges of taking ideas from the drawing board to the customer.

Bonus Points

• Experience with Python and its asyncio lib (nice-to-have, but you will use/learn it on the job!)

• Exposure to robotics or embedded Linux (ROS 2, Jetson/ARM, NixOS).

• Track record of improving production reliability such as monitoring, alerting, incident response, SLOs.

• Experience building evaluation harnesses, quality dashboards, or automated regression detection for AI systems.

• Experience with RAG pipelines, vector databases or conversational long-term memory systems.

• Direct experience with LiveKit, Pipecat, or similar real-time voice agent frameworks.

• Lower-level language exposure (C++, Rust) for performance-critical paths.

• Publications, interesting side projects, unconventional experience, or other strong signals of initiative and great capability.

• An engineer who can grow with Andromeda, we are seeking candidates that can develop skills, ownership and knowledge fast as part of the

Benefits

The salary for this position may vary depending on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package may also include additional benefits or components based on the specific role. Details will be provided if an employment offer is made.

If you're excited about this role but don't meet every requirement, that's okay — we encourage you to apply. At Andromeda Robotics, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Let's build the future together. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Please note: At this time, we are generally not offering visa sponsorship for this role.

Qualifications And Requirements

Mid-Senior level

Mid-Senior level