Principal Software Engineer (Brisbane) (Brisbane City)

We are hiring a Principal Software Engineer to become one of the key technical leaders at Bigmate. This is a rare role for someone who wants more than a narrow engineering position. You will be close to the technology, close to customers, close to leadership, and close to the decisions that shape the future. You will help lead the delivery of real‑world industrial AI systems from concept through to deployment. That means architecture, hands‑on software development, technical decision‑making, client conversations, field realities, troubleshooting, and helping other engineers around you. We are looking for someone who can own outcomes, not just tasks. About Bigmate Bigmate builds AI, computer vision, sensing, and safety technology for industrial environments. Our systems help companies understand risk, detect hazards, improve safety, and make better decisions in real time. We work in environments where the work is physical, complex, and high consequence, including mine sites, industrial yards, logistics operations, and other live operating environments. This is not pure SaaS. This is not lab‑only AI. Our software has to work in the real world, around machines, vehicles, people, dust, heat, network constraints, sensors, cameras, and operational pressure. That makes the work challenging. It also makes it exciting! We are a small, flat, high‑ownership team with big goals. The people who join now will help shape the next stage of Bigmate: how we build, how we deploy, how we scale, and how our technology makes industrial work safer and smarter. What You’ll Do
- Lead technical delivery of projects end-to-end
- Take ownership of engineering outcomes, risks, timelines, and execution
- Make practical technical decisions across software, systems, deployment, and support
- Contribute hands‑on to software development, especially in C++
- Help design, build, deploy, validate, and support industrial AI systems
- Work with computer vision, machine learning, sensors, edge devices, and real-world industrial systems
- Lead technical conversations with clients and internal stakeholders
- Translate business and client requirements into practical engineering execution
- Support deployment, commissioning, troubleshooting, and system validation
- Travel occasionally to mine sites or industrial sites, usually for a night or two
- Produce and review transparent technical documentation
- Help shape Bigmate's technical direction and engineering standards What We’re Looking For
- 8+ years’ software engineering experience
- Strong C++ experience
- Experience with Git / GitLab workflows
- Experience with Docker
- Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms
- Experience designing and delivering complex systems end-to-end
- Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non‑technical people We’d Value Experience With
- Computer vision / Machine learning
- Edge computing
- Electrical systems
- Sensor-based systems
- LiDAR, cameras, telematics, or safety systems Why Join Bigmate? Because you want your engineering work to matter. At Bigmate, you will build technology that helps make industrial environments safer and smarter. You will work on difficult problems involving AI, computer vision, sensing, software, hardware, deployment, and real-world operational constraints. You will learn quickly because you will be close to everything: the customer, the product, the code, the deployment, and the outcome. You will have room to grow because the company is growing. The people who join now will help shape the future technical capability, product direction, and engineering culture of Bigmate. This position is interesting, meaningful, quick‑moving, and full of opportunity for people who want to build. #J-18808-Ljbffr Apply on Kit Job: kitjobau.com/job/3rtekr