Salient is partnering with one of the most exciting Applied AI businesses in the world to find Lead / Staff-level AI Engineers capable of leading complex Generative AI projects from architecture through to production.

This isn't a research role, an internal platform team, or another job wrapping APIs around ChatGPT.

You'll work directly with major enterprise customers, taking ambiguous business problems and determining what should be built, how it should be architected, and how a team gets it into production. Autonomy and Ownership will be guaranteed for you to succeed in leading projects with your stamp.

You'll remain deeply hands-on while providing technical leadership across projects.

What you'll be doing:
Own system design and major technical decisions
Build production agentic and LLM-powered applications
Design tool-calling workflows, structured outputs, evaluations and enterprise integrations
Establish engineering standards and guide other engineers
Work directly with senior customer stakeholders
Write production-quality Python and solve the hardest technical problems yourself
Work with frontier AI capabilities,



including technology ahead of broader public release

We're looking for engineers with:
Exceptional Python / software engineering fundamentals
Solid architecture and system design experience
Experience owning technical direction or leading engineering projects
Robust understanding of tool calling, structured outputs, evaluation and contemporary LLM systems
A production mindset across testing, reliability and observability
Confidence working directly with customers and senior stakeholders

You don't need to be an Engineering Manager.

This is for engineers who want more technical influence without moving away from building.

The team cares deeply about engineering quality. AI can help you write code, but it can't replace engineering judgement.
Work at the frontier of Applied AI
Own architecture, not tickets
Access the latest OpenAI models and capabilities
See projects reach production in weeks, not quarters
Work alongside genuinely exceptional engineers
Staff/Lead IC career path

Australian Citizens & Permanent Residents only.
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📌 Staff Ai Engineer New South Wales
🏢 Salient Group
📍 New South Wales