Senior Applied AI Engineer

Your current 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.
Robust 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