Description
We build connected AI operating systems for retail and ecommerce brands — and we're looking for a contract engineer to build one with us. The current engagement is an AI operating system for a premium Australian fashion brand: a governed foundation (data layer, brand-rules engine, evaluation) with a suite of AI agents on top, running inside the client's own cloud. It's an eight-week sprint at 2–3 days a week, working alongside our embedded lead and the client's internal tech owner. This is a senior, hands-on, security-critical contract. You're not just shipping features — you're building a system that holds a brand's commercial data and creative IP, used by their whole team, where who-can-see-what and what-leaves-the-tenant matter as much as what the tools do. What you'll own: Foundation & data • Stand up the data layer — AlloyDB (Postgres + pgvector) as the operational store and embeddings; Firestore for live state. • Build read-only, least-privilege ingestion from the brand's systems (Shopify, Klaviyo, AP21, TRS, Profit Peak, and a PLM platform) — normalised to one canonical schema, idempotent, kept current. • Build the brand-rules engine: brand and commercial rules as versioned config, enforced by a deterministic policy gate before and after every generation. AI & agents • Integrate and harden the agents (sketch, tech pack, trade pack, image generation, email) on the Anthropic API (Claude) — each reading the rules engine and data layer, gated, writing back to memory. • Bui