Engineering Team Lead, Risk & Value Optimisation (RVO)
Neara
| Company | Neara |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Sydney |
| Remote | Hybrid |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Manager |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 16 Jul 2026 |
| Last verified | 3 Aug 2026 |
| Source | Employer ATS (ashby) |
Description
Imagine having the power to stress-test an entire power grid against a hurricane or thunderstorm before the clouds even gather. That is the reality we are creating at Neara.
We use advanced machine learning to create engineering-grade, physics enabled digital twins of electricity grids across four continents, this helps asset owners understand their biggest challenges and bring the most viable solutions to life across millions of kilometres of infrastructure.
By simulating extreme weather and structural stress at a network-wide scale, we empower the world’s largest utilities to pinpoint risks, optimise investments and build a more resilient global energy future.
Our team is a collection of brilliant minds who are fanatical about making a tangible difference in the real world, utilising AI and machine learning to accelerate everything from data classification to complex scenario analysis. We have built a special culture where innovation thrives because everyone owns the mission and we need smart, creative people to help us scale this impact to every corner of the globe.
Risk & Value Optimisation (RVO), Neara's most strategic product, is an analytics platform that puts a true cost on utilities' assets, and on the decisions about how to manage and operate them. It is used by customers to:
- Understand their risk exposure today.
- Simulate investment, policy & environmental changes, and the impact those changes will have on total ownership costs.
- Optimise their budget balancing risk exposure and capital and operational expenses.
Which enables them to:
- Manage their aging infrastructure and associated risks, and the significant costs in upgrading it.
- Respond effectively to both near-term and long-term challenges in their environment.
- Create defensible and explainable investment programs to withstand regulator scrutiny.
We're looking for a Engineering Team Lead to lead the engineering team building RVO. This is a people-first leadership role with strong technical depth - around 60% leading people and driving delivery, 40% hands-on in the code and system design.
RVO is a greenfield solution, so there's real room to shape its architecture and direction from the ground up. You'll bring strong product sense and keep the team focused on real customer outcomes rather than code for its own sake. We don't do hypothetical, and neither should you.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Own delivery end to end: plan and execute work across one or more quarters, set clear goals with your team and hold them to account, and make sure work ships reliably, sustainably, and in full.
- Lead, grow, and mentor the team: develop ~3 engineers (in a cross-functional team of ~5) in their craft and quality of execution, support their career growth, and guide architecture, decision-making, and technical scaffolding - setting the standard for communication, accountability, and engineering culture. Your technical leadership and influence lifts others building on RVO too, including Customer Success - beyond your direct reports.
- Stay hands-on where you multiply the team: contribute to system design and architectural decisions, and write and review production-quality code across performance-critical, data-intensive components. This isn't a hands-off role: you'll lead best by understanding the substance.
- Own the technical core of RVO: Balance what lives in our core engineering platform versus the application layer, so the solution stays performant, flexible, and maintainable as it grows.
- Work with complex, large-scale data: shape the ingestion and data structures that synthesise disparate sources (GIS, LiDAR, asset condition, historical failures) with a rich geospatial library, across very large networks.
- Partner across the business, and look ahead: work closely with Product, Deployment, Customer Success, and Sales, and get in front of customers to understand the problems utilities face. Spot the platform capabilities other team