Application Integration Specialist - AI

Podium
Melbourne, Australia
On-site

Who this role is best for

Aimed at mid-level technical professionals with AI experience who thrive in collaborative, fast-paced environments.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 1–3 years of technical support experience and a passion for AI-driven solutions
    — “1–3 years of experience in technical or product support roles”
  • Individuals who enjoy driving innovation and improving internal processes through customer feedback
    — “Develop a system for feedback loops in close collaboration with the Product team”
  • Professionals comfortable with ambiguity and unstructured environments who can adapt quickly
    — “Ability to drive innovation, improve processes, and thrive in an unstructured or rapidly changing environment”

Things to consider

  • The role involves direct customer escalations and requires strong communication skills
    — “You will be involved in escalations and resolution, and will join customer meetings when appropriate”
  • Candidates must be able to work across multiple departments and maintain internal documentation
    — “Create internal documentation of our products and processes”

How to stand out

  • Demonstrate experience in using AI tools for automation and bug resolution in your resume
    — “Troubleshoot, document & resolve bugs by using AI to create and merge PRs”
  • Showcase your ability to synthesize and communicate customer data effectively
    — “Serve as the Voice of the Customer, socializing organized qualitative and quantitative data to cross-functional partners”
  • Highlight your background in modern web technologies and debugging tools
    — “Familiarity with modern web technologies (APIs, web services, JSON), and comfort with scripting or debugging tools”
  • Emphasize your proactive approach to identifying gaps and improving team workflows
    — “Proactive approach to identifying gaps, proposing solutions, and improving team workflows”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • Design the voice AI test strategy and process
  • Lead UAT planning and scenarios
  • Own defect and risk management
Typical background
At least 6 years of experience in software QAAt least 2 years of experience in testing voice agents or conversational AI in live delivery

Skills & requirements

Required

Voice AI TestingSpeech Recognition And Output TestingTest AutomationCI/CDAPI TestingTroubleshooting From Logs, Transcripts, And Call Recordings

Preferred

LLM Evaluation ToolsTelephony BasicsIstqb Certification

Stack & domain

AI ToolsCommunicationTeamworkProblem-solvingAIAdtech

About the role

Original posting from Podium via Greenhouse

At Podium, we bring AI Employees to local businesses that turn every conversation into revenue. Trusted by 60,000+ businesses across Auto, Home Services, and Aesthetics, Podium captures and converts leads 24/7, driving both new business and repeat customers.

In 2.5 years, we crossed $150M in AI Agent ARR. During this time, we’ve deployed 10,000 AI employees to empower real business outcomes for our customers. Podium is building what we believe will be the most impactful AI employee ecosystem for local business.

Podium has been recognized as the Best AI Implementation by Inc. Magazine, highlighted by OpenAI for building revenue-driving AI Agents, and awarded the #1 AI Agent for Business Operations by G2.

Our growth is fueled by hiring exceptional people, holding them to high standards, and creating opportunities for them to grow and make an impact. Our operating principles guide daily behavior and ensure we hire people who will thrive at Podium. If you're hungry for growth, aligned to our operating principles, and ready to get to work, you won't find a better place to learn and accelerate your career.

Technical Support Engineer

At Podium, we bring AI Employees to local businesses that turn every conversation into revenue. Trusted by 60,000+ businesses across Auto, Home Services, and Aesthetics, Podium captures and converts leads 24/7, driving both new business and repeat customers.

In under 24 months, we crossed $100M in AI Agent ARR, scaling 300% year-over-year. During this time, we’ve deployed 10,000 AI employees to empower real business outcomes for our customers. Podium is building what we believe will be the most impactful AI employee ecosystem for local business.

Podium has been recognized as the Best AI Implementation by Inc. Magazine, highlighted by OpenAI for building revenue-driving AI Agents, and awarded the #1 AI Agent for Business Operations by G2.

Our growth is fueled by hiring exceptional people, holding them to high standards, and creating opportunities for them to grow and make an impact. Our operating principles guide daily behavior and ensure we hire people who will thrive at Podium. If you're hungry for growth, aligned to our operating principles, and ready to get to work, you won't find a better place to learn and accelerate your career.

Podium is seeking the next candidate to join our amazing Technical Support Engineer team. The Technical Support Engineer is a critically important role for Podium as we continually develop products and scale our customer service offerings. Sitting within our engineering department, your primary responsibilities are to own specific products from a technical perspective, troubleshoot, identify, and resolve issues by pushing bug fixes, and effectively reporting feedback and feature requests to the product team - the true 360-degree company expert in the given product(s).

You will work closely with cross-functional teams such as Product, Support, Customer Success, Onboarding, and other engineers to ensure we provide the highest level of service and resolution to our customers, aligned with the goals of being the overall Voice of the Customer at the company, optimizing processes, maximizing net retention, and fixing bugs.

The ideal candidate thrives on helping local businesses solve their problems, drives innovation, and is confident in ambiguity. While this role is not purely customer-facing in nature, you will be involved in escalations and resolution, and will join customer meetings when appropriate. Technical Support Engineers will report directly to the Technical Support Manager.

What You Will Do:

Troubleshoot, document & resolve bugs by using AI to create and merge PRs

Serve as a point of escalation, vetting the legitimacy of product-related issues from our customers

Develop a system for feedback loops in close collaboration with the Product team

Create internal documentation of our products and processes

Maintain open communication channels within the broader Customer Success department and Product teams

Serve as the Voice of the Customer, socializing organized qualitative and quantitative data to cross-functional partners to improve our products

Work cross-functionally with Podium teams on various ad-hoc initiatives to enhance the customer experience

Resolve escalated cases promptly while holding Product, Engineering and yourself accountable to established Service Level Agreements

What You Should Have:

A customer-first mindset with strong empathy and ownership

1–3 years of experience in technical or product support roles

Ability to drive innovation, improve processes, and thrive in an unstructured or rapidly changing environment

An AI power user, you are comfortable working with multiple agents at once and are excited for AI's future

Familiarity with modern web technologies (APIs, web services, JSON), and comfort with scripting or debugging tools.

Strong analytical and data-driven problem-solving skills

Experience managing and triaging customer issues, feature requests, or product-related escalations

Proactive approach to identifying gaps, proposing solutions, and improving team workflows

Benefits:

Real growth and transparent career development opportunities - we’re still young in Australia with plenty of room to grow.

A unique product that makes an actual impact on the local businesses you love and support.

Attractive base + super and commissions package.

A generous $650 monthly ‘Benefits & Wellbeing’ allowance, spent how you please.

Free snacks and drinks, which are always stocked up.

You'll find Podium in the Queen & Collins building with access to end of trip facilities, bike storage and lockers.

Podium is an equal opportunity employer. Podium provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, or veteran status.

Source: Podium careers (Greenhouse)

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