AI Talent Network: the team behind AI agents in production
Six talent pools, from agent engineers to AI governance and adoption leads. Each pool lists the production evidence we screen for and the Galileo salary figure for the seat, or says priced per brief. Register once in confidence with a LinkedIn link or a CV.
AI agents have begun to shop and pay on people's behalf, and Australia is an early market. In June, Google named Australia the first Asia-Pacific market for its Universal Commerce Protocol, with single-item checkout inside Search, AI Mode and the Gemini app set to roll out (retailbiz, 17 June 2026). Agentic browser requests seen by the bot-protection firm DataDome rose from about 12.5 million in August to 58.2 million in September 2026 (DataDome AI Traffic Report Q3 2026, vendor data with no country breakdown).
Few shoppers want an agent at the checkout yet: 4% of 1,000 Australian online shoppers wanted AI help at the point of payment (Commerce and PayPal Australia, June 2026). So we expect the first hires to be for the agents businesses run themselves, and for two dated obligations. Privacy policies must disclose automated decisions from 10 December 2026 (OAIC guidance, 30 September 2026). Scams Prevention Framework codes for banks, telcos and digital platforms are due by 31 March 2027 (HSF Kramer, June 2026).
In a January trial, AI agents made Australia's first authenticated agentic card payments, buying cinema tickets and booking accommodation with Australian bank cards.
From 10 December 2026, a privacy policy must say when a computer program uses personal information to make, or do a thing that is substantially and directly related to making, a decision that could reasonably be expected to significantly affect an individual's rights or interests.
Standing benches, not vacancies. Each one names the seats it feeds and what we look for, with market figures from the Galileo AI Salary Guide where we have them.
EngineeringSydney and Melbourne · Permanent; some contract build sprints in Sydney
Talent pool. There is no live vacancy today.
AI Engineers: Agents in Production
Senior, lead and principal engineers who have put LLM agents in front of real users and can show the evaluations, traces and costs behind them.
Seats it feeds
Senior AI Engineer
Lead AI Engineer
Principal AI Engineer, Agentic Systems
Applied AI Engineer
AI Evaluation Engineer
We want to meet you if
You have shipped an agent to real users and can name a production failure, how you caught it and what you changed.
Your evaluation set runs as a regression test in CI, and you can name a regression it caught or a metric it moved.
You have built tool calls with structured outputs, idempotent retries, scoped permissions and escalation to a person.
You have traced agents in production and know the cost and latency of one completed task.
Market reference, not an offer. Lead, staff and founding seats: $200k to $270k base in disclosed postings. Lead / Senior AI Engineer (LLM/GenAI): $155k to $200k base excl super; top of market $220k to $280k; contract day rate $1,200 to $1,600 (senior LLM/MLOps). Principal seats are priced per brief. (Galileo AI Salary Guide, July 2026)
Register in confidence; a CV is optional. We call when an employer engages us on a seat that fits, and you hear the employer, the package and the brief before your CV goes anywhere.
Galileo Search collects your details to match you to current and future AI roles. They go to an employer only for a specific role and only with your agreement. See our privacy policy.
ArchitectureSydney · Permanent, and contract builds of 12 weeks or more
Talent pool. There is no live vacancy today.
Forward Deployed Engineers and AI Solutions Architects
Forward deployed engineers and architects who take AI agents from pilot into an employer's core systems, with a working fallback to a second model provider.
Seats it feeds
Forward Deployed AI Engineer
AI Solutions Architect
Lead AI Architect
Agentic AI Architect
AI Integration Architect
We want to meet you if
You have written production code inside a customer's systems as a forward deployed engineer and measured the value after go-live.
You have made a platform decision (model gateway, tool registry, agent identity, build or buy) and then run it in production.
You have connected agents to CRM, ERP or other core systems, and can say who granted data access and how the security review went.
You have a cost model for what you built, and you have tested switching it to a second model provider.
You have given outside agents an authenticated way in, through APIs or MCP servers, for the tasks a customer's agent needs to complete.
Market reference, not an offer. AI Solutions Architect: $165k to $200k base excl super; top of market $205k to $235k. Contract day rates and forward deployed engineer seats are priced per brief. (Galileo AI Salary Guide, July 2026)
Register in confidence; a CV is optional. We call when an employer engages us on a seat that fits, and you hear the employer, the package and the brief before your CV goes anywhere.
Galileo Search collects your details to match you to current and future AI roles. They go to an employer only for a specific role and only with your agreement. See our privacy policy.
EngineeringSydney and Melbourne · Permanent; some contract data builds in Sydney
Talent pool. There is no live vacancy today.
AI Platform, LLMOps and Data Engineers
Engineers who keep AI agents correct, observable and affordable after launch, and the data engineers who prepare what those agents answer from.
Seats it feeds
AI Platform Engineer
LLMOps / MLOps Engineer
AI Reliability and Observability Lead
AI Data Engineer
Agent Operations Lead
We want to meet you if
You have run LLM serving or a model gateway with routing, online evaluation and quality monitoring.
You have been on call for an AI feature and can walk through one incident from alert to fix.
You have tracked the cost of each completed task and brought it down.
You have made content retrievable (parsing, chunking, metadata, freshness) and carried access controls through, so an agent never reads what its user cannot.
You have rolled back or retired an agent and closed off its permissions.
Market reference, not an offer. Data / MLOps / Platform Engineer, base excl super: Platform $145k to $175k; MLOps $135k to $165k; Data $125k to $150k; top of market $185k to $210k; contract day rate $950 to $1,600. Principal platform and agent operations seats are priced per brief. (Galileo AI Salary Guide, July 2026)
Register in confidence; a CV is optional. We call when an employer engages us on a seat that fits, and you hear the employer, the package and the brief before your CV goes anywhere.
Galileo Search collects your details to match you to current and future AI roles. They go to an employer only for a specific role and only with your agreement. See our privacy policy.
SecuritySydney · Permanent, some contract assessments
Talent pool. There is no live vacancy today.
AI Security Engineers and Architects
Security engineers and architects who have threat-modelled and red-teamed LLM agents, given them scoped identities and set the rules for outside agents.
Seats it feeds
AI Security Engineer
AI Security Architect
AI Red Team Engineer
Identity Architect, Non-Human Identity
Secure AI Consultant
We want to meet you if
You have threat-modelled an agent for direct and indirect prompt injection, tool abuse, data exfiltration and excessive agency.
You have red-teamed an LLM application and seen the findings fixed.
You have built tool permissions, sandboxing and egress controls for agents.
You have issued scoped identities to agents and can explain how they are reviewed and revoked.
You have set the policy for outside agents at a login, form or checkout: which to block, which to allow and how to verify them.
You came through application security, identity and access management, cloud security or penetration testing. Your current title does not need to mention AI.
Register in confidence; a CV is optional. We call when an employer engages us on a seat that fits, and you hear the employer, the package and the brief before your CV goes anywhere.
Galileo Search collects your details to match you to current and future AI roles. They go to an employer only for a specific role and only with your agreement. See our privacy policy.
GovernanceSydney and Melbourne · Permanent; contract sprints in Sydney
Talent pool. There is no live vacancy today.
AI Governance, Risk and Assurance
People who turn AI policy into controls engineers build to and auditors can test, including automated decision disclosure. Risk, audit and privacy backgrounds welcome.
Seats it feeds
AI Governance Lead
AI Risk Manager (second line)
AI Assurance Manager, Internal Audit
Responsible AI Lead
Privacy and Automated Decision Lead
We want to meet you if
You have built or run an AI inventory with risk tiers, and changed or stopped a use case on the evidence.
You have mapped controls to NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001 or APRA's CPS 230 and CPS 234.
You have agreed evaluation thresholds and logging with engineers, then shown an auditor the evidence.
You have worked out what agents add to a control framework: delegated authority, autonomy limits and third-party models.
You have a background in technology risk, model risk, operational risk, privacy or data governance. AI does not need to be in your title.
Why now. From 10 December 2026, a privacy policy must say when a computer program uses personal information to make, or do a thing that is substantially and directly related to making, a decision that could reasonably be expected to significantly affect an individual's rights or interests (APP 1.7 to 1.9). (Privacy Act 1988, APP 1.7 to 1.9; OAIC guidance, 30 September 2026, via Allens, 2 October 2026)
Market reference, not an offer. AI Governance Lead: $140k to $180k base excl super; top of market $180k to $220k; contract day rate $900 to $1,100 (framework sprint). Galileo dataset benchmark: $200k base / $1,000 per day median at principal level (Sydney, large company). Director seats are priced per brief. (Galileo AI Salary Guide, July 2026)
Register in confidence; a CV is optional. We call when an employer engages us on a seat that fits, and you hear the employer, the package and the brief before your CV goes anywhere.
Galileo Search collects your details to match you to current and future AI roles. They go to an employer only for a specific role and only with your agreement. See our privacy policy.
TransformationSydney and Melbourne · Permanent or fixed term; contract in Sydney
Talent pool. There is no live vacancy today.
AI Transformation and Adoption Leads
Leaders who have redesigned work around AI, for staff or in customer service, and can show the number that changed six months later.
Seats it feeds
AI Transformation Lead
AI Adoption and Enablement Lead
Customer Operations AI Transformation Lead
AI Product Manager, Customer Service Agents
AI Change and Capability Lead
We want to meet you if
You have redesigned a job or workflow around AI and measured it six months later: weekly active use, verified time saved or cost to serve.
You have worked through consultation on an AI change with HR and employee relations, under an enterprise agreement or award.
You have built a champions network that kept going after launch.
You have owned resolution rate, complaints and CSAT in a service operation through an AI change, and written the rules for what stays with people.
Market reference, not an offer. AI Transformation / Adoption Lead: Galileo dataset benchmark $130k to $170k base excl super at mid to lead level, $200k at principal (Sydney, large company); advertised $120k to $180k (directional). AI Product Manager: $150k to $185k; top of market $200k to $250k (+10 to 20% bonus in top band). Head-titled seats are priced per brief. (Galileo AI Salary Guide, July 2026)
Register in confidence; a CV is optional. We call when an employer engages us on a seat that fits, and you hear the employer, the package and the brief before your CV goes anywhere.
Galileo Search collects your details to match you to current and future AI roles. They go to an employer only for a specific role and only with your agreement. See our privacy policy.
Galileo view, October 2026
Which seat comes first
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Automated decisions that affect customers.
A governance or privacy lead before disclosure starts on 10 December 2026.
A transformation lead before headcount decisions. Gartner predicts that half of the companies that cut customer service headcount because of AI will rehire staff by 2027 to do similar work (Gartner, February 2026, via CX Dive).
Send a LinkedIn link or a CV, one agent, control or workflow you put into production with the number it changed, and what would make you move. There is no closing date.
02
We call when an employer engages us on a seat that fits
You hear the employer, the package and the brief before your CV goes anywhere. You decide whether to go further.
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Your CV goes only with your yes
Your CV goes to an employer only for that specific role, and only after you agree. We keep your details for up to 24 months after our last contact, unless you ask us to delete them sooner.
Galileo Search collects your details to match you to current and future AI roles. They go to an employer only for a specific role and only with your agreement. See our privacy policy.
Hiring for one of these seats? Brief a role
Tell us the seat, the team it joins and the date driving it. The first 30-minute brief is free and benchmarks the seat against our salary data. Permanent placements carry a 90-day replacement guarantee.
No. A talent pool is a standing bench for searches we expect to run. When an employer engages us on a real seat and agrees to advertise it, the role goes on our live roles page, usually within 48 hours. Confidential searches are not advertised, so we call the people in the matching pool.
Galileo Search holds them. Our hosting and email providers process them, some outside Australia, including in the United States, as our privacy policy sets out. They go to an employer only for a specific role, and only after you agree to be put forward for it.
Up to 24 months after our last contact with you, unless you ask us to delete them sooner.
No. A LinkedIn link and a few lines on one thing you put into production are enough to start.
Our salary guide has no figure for those seats yet, and we publish only figures we can source. Each brief sets its own package, and you hear it before anything goes further.
Candidates
Register once. We call when a search fits.
Your details go to an employer only for a specific role and only with your agreement.