AI Engineer

Job Description

AI Engineer

Sydney or Melbourne | Hybrid | Permanent role (full time)

Big4 experience is desirable or large corporate consultancy.

A high-profile client is seeking an AI Engineer to support in solving practical challenges faced by both their diversified advisory business and its clients.

You will be responsible for:

• Implementing agentic workflows, including; future state planning, tool/function calling, guardrails, handoffs, and memory/state.
• Scoping and delivering enterprise-ready AI solutions, backed by your foundational skills in AI engineering, operations and lifecycle management
• Building effective retrieval-augmented workflows to support business processes, including; optimising chunking and retrieval strategies.
• Effective usage of guardrails & safety controls to push for high quality and safe usage of AI regardless of project scale.
• Consulting acumen to run discovery and design sessions, scope Proof of Concept (PoC)/Minimum Viable Product (MVP), communicate risks/assumptions, and collaborate with clients and internal stakeholders to deliver outcomes.

You will bring:

• Proficient in programming with Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js, focusing on retrieval techniques like embeddings, vector databases, and chunking strategies.
• Experienced with agentic workflows using OpenAI Agents SDK and Google ADK, plus LLM observability through tracing, evaluation, and monitoring.
• Familiar with FastAPI, Next.js, LangGraph, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) alongside security protocols like JWT and OAuth.
• Knowledgeable in various tools and frameworks including Pinecone, pgvector, Weaviate, OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks, MLflow, and more for AI/ML development and deployment.
• Excellence in written and verbal communication skills, with a passion for technology and a strong client focus.

Salary: $220,000 per annum | Permanent | Full Time | Hybrid