Senior Applied AI Engineer/n Your new companyJoin a leading financial services organisation investing heavily in Applied AI and next-generation engineering capabilities.

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- Build production-grade AI agents using RAG, semantic search, vector databases and AWS Bedrock.

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- Drive AI systems through to production, covering deployment, observability, evaluation and optimisation.

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- Define engineering standards across AWS and Infrastructure-as-Code.

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- Implement AI guardrails including validation, hallucination detection and output filtering.

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- Design and build MCP servers and integrations connecting AI agents with enterprise systems and tools.

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- Evaluate and implement emerging agentic AI patterns, including multi-agent architectures and agent-to-agent communication.

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- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across the AI development lifecycle.

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- c. 7+ years' experience in Software Engineering, AI Engineering or a related discipline.

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- Proven experience building and operating production-scale LLM and agentic AI solutions.

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- Deep understanding of agentic architectures, tool use, reasoning, orchestration, memory and multi-agent systems.

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- Strong experience with AWS, AWS Bedrock, LangChain, Strands or similar AI frameworks.

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- Experience building RAG solutions, semantic search capabilities and applications powered by vector databases.

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- Expertise in prompt engineering, context management and model evaluation.

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- Strong communication skills and experience leading or mentoring engineering teams.

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- Financial services experience highly regarded.

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- Prospect to shape the technical direction of a greenfield Applied AI function.

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- Ownership of architecture and engineering standards for enterprise AI platforms.

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- Exposure to cutting-edge agentic AI technologies and large-scale AI initiatives.

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