Senior Applied AI Engineer

Your new company
Join a leading financial services organisation investing heavily in Applied AI and next-generation engineering capabilities.

Your recent role
As a Senior Applied AI Engineer, you'll lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale agentic AI platforms.
Key responsibilities:

- Build production-grade AI agents using RAG, semantic search, vector databases and AWS Bedrock.
- Drive AI systems through to production, covering deployment, observability, evaluation and optimisation.
- Define engineering standards across AWS and Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Implement AI guardrails including validation, hallucination detection and output filtering.
- Design and build MCP servers and integrations connecting AI agents with enterprise systems and tools.
- Evaluate and implement emerging agentic AI patterns, including multi-agent architectures and agent-to-agent communication.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across the AI development lifecycle.

What you'll need to succeed

- Proven senior level experience in Software Engineering & AI Engineering.
- Proven experience building and operating production-scale LLM and agentic AI solutions.




- Deep understanding of agentic architectures, tool use, reasoning, orchestration, memory and multi-agent systems.
- Strong experience with AWS, AWS Bedrock, LangChain, Strands or similar AI frameworks.
- Experience building RAG solutions, semantic search capabilities and applications powered by vector databases.
- Expertise in prompt engineering, context management and model evaluation.
- Strong communication skills and experience leading or mentoring engineering teams.
- Financial services experience highly regarded.

What you'll get in return

- Opportunity to shape the technical direction of a greenfield Applied AI function.
- Ownership of architecture and engineering standards for enterprise AI platforms.
- Exposure to cutting-edge agentic AI technologies and large-scale AI initiatives.

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📌 Senior Applied AI Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 Hays Technology
📍 Sydney