Senior Telematics AI Engineer

Who we are

Directed is a creative technology led business with over 20 years' experience in delivering customer success. Operating in two main divisions: Retail and Technologies, our Retail division develops and distributes innovative products within consumer and mobile electronics that create excitement, bring convenience, and add to the quality of life for all Australians. Our Technologies division challenges the boundaries to engineer connected vehicle telematics programs, multimedia audio visual navigation systems, approved accessories and cutting-edge AI and analytics platforms that promotes safety, quality, proactive insights and ultimately, can save lives.

If you're seeking to join a company that is a market leader, offering opportunities for growth and a focus on your development and success, now is the time to join Directed

About the role

The primary objective of the
Senior Telematics AI Engineer
to devise, architect and implement AI/neural network/machine learning initiatives primarily in the Directed Technologies business unit, driving integration into product lines as broad as Digital Video Recorder (DVR) video and audio processing, telematics and vehicle data, consumer and medical electronics, and IoT while advancing AI applications for internal process optimisation including testing and production automation. This newly created role will see you lead and deliver efforts to improve product capability and differentiation, operational efficiency, product quality, enhance production efficiency, refine product road mapping, and optimise customer experiences.

Meet your new team

The AI team at Directed is central to driving innovation, developing AI models, applications and analytics that enhance product functionality, optimise internal operations and create new business opportunities. By collaborating with key business units, the team implements AI driven solutions that improve efficiency, support decision-making and deliver a competitive edge for Directed in the marketplace. The team thrives on a culture of collaboration and continuous learning, working closely with departments like Engineering, Product, Marketing, Operations and Finance. With a focus on creativity, out-of-the-box thinking, hyper-productivity and impact, the team plays a crucial role in delivering AI solutions that align with business goals driving the growth and success of directed group.

How you will make an impact

The
Senior Telematics AI Engineer
role delivers strategic value across operational, customer facing and corporate functions emphasising cross functional collaboration and innovation. This role will see you:

• Support the architectural vision and design for AI-enabled telematics solutions to priority business challenges.
• Provide high-level, hands-on expertise and leadership in full stack software development, including embedded systems such as embedded data and vision processing applications, and sophisticated user of generative software and AI engineering tools.
• Exemplify modern development methods, approaches and practices for software development for secure, reliable enterprise systems.
• Develop custom embedded firmware and back-end systems unlocking value from Directed's data to give powerful new capabilities to customers and staff.
• Enable Directed's products and core systems by developing innovative AI capabilities, leveraging video, audio, telematics data and diagnostic information to provide real operational solutions to vehicle fleet operators and international OEM companies.
• Develop and test AI-driven tools to optimise end-of-line SMT testing, TAKT time analysis, and predictive inventory management, EDM creation, product lifecycle analysis, product trends, reducing downtime and improving throughput at Directed's Melbourne facility, on customer systems and across all divisions.
• Work closely with teams from hardware & software engineering, product development, sales and marketing, support, architects and the executive teams to bring multi-disciplinary technologies to market; leveraging hyper-agile AI methodologies to rapidly develop and deploy products and features.

The successful candidate

Our ideal candidate for the
Senior Telematics AI Engineer
role will confidently demonstrate:

• A proven track record in senior telematics-related engineering roles (e.g. Senior Engineer, Embedded AI Solutions Lead) with hands-on experience in addressing complex engineering challenges in embedded and telematics fields.
• Experience in an AI, machine learning, or data science role (e.g. AI Architect, Lead Data Scientist, AI Solutions Lead) delivering production-grade solutions.
• Hands-on experience with deep learning, neural networks, and generative AI, ideally in both cloud and edge deployment scenarios, and familiar with available embedded AI models
• Successful delivery of end-to-end embedded AI projects from the requirements gathering, scoping and feasibility through to production deployment and post-launch optimisation.
• Exposure to vendor and partner management, especially with cloud providers (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP) and silicon and AI tooling vendors.
• Designing scalable, maintainable AI system architectures; integrating models with IoT, telematics, and real-time platforms.

Perks & Benefits

Why Directed? You'll be part of a company that puts your personal and professional growth, wellbeing, and success first. We are a diverse and inclusive team dedicated to helping one another achieve our goals and driving customer success. We love to connect and interact socially with regular company-wide events, and we focus on giving back to our communities through charities.

This full-time role offers a competitive salary, being able to work from modern offices based in Tullamarine and in Richmond, have significant product discounts, salary packaging perks and more. There's a lot to look forward to, when you join our team

Next steps

Like what you've read so far? Keen to progress your career in an exciting new role and lead our AI telematics engineering to deliver customer success?
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