PRA has been engaged to build out three engineering tracks across the financial services sector for a client in Sydney.

Hiring at three levels: Senior AI Engineer, AI Engineering Lead and Senior AI Engineering Lead/n

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/nYou'll take LLM applications and agents past the prototype and into production, in an environment where they have to be trustworthy./n

/n The role/n

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- Build LLM-powered applications and agentic workflows in Python on Amazon Bedrock and AgentCore, using foundation models including Claude and frameworks such as Strands Agents or LangGraph

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- Engineer retrieval and context: ingestion, chunking, embeddings, hybrid search, and MCP servers connecting models to enterprise tools and data

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- Make quality measurable with evaluation datasets, automated evals and regression tests for prompts, retrieval and agent behaviour

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- Run AI like real software with IaC, CI/CD, tracing and cost monitoring, plus guardrails, PII handling and audit logging

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- At Lead level and above: own AI platform architecture, take use cases such as customer servicing, lending and financial crime to production, and grow a team

/n What you'll bring/n

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- Senior AI Engineer: 3-6 years, including 1-2+ years building ML or GenAI.

Lead: 6-10 years, including 3+ in ML/GenAI.

Senior Lead: 10-15 years,



typically with 4+ in ML/GenAI

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- Strong Python and software engineering fundamentals

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- Hands-on LLM work on AWS (Bedrock or SageMaker AI), covering RAG, prompt design and tool use

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- At least one AI solution you've taken past proof of concept into production and kept running

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- Financial services or regulated industry experience is preferred

/n It's a bonus if you've worked with AgentCore, MCP, LLM-as-judge evaluation or AI guardrails, have a consulting background, or hold AWS GenAI or ML certifications./n

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Culture/n

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- An AI engineering community at the front of what these platforms can do, sharing what works

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- Mentoring and coaching at every level

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- Hybrid in Sydney, with time on site with the team at agreed intervals

/n What's on offer/n

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- $120k-$240k package, depending on level

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- Permanent, or contract at $800-$1,200 per day

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- Support to gain AWS AI and ML certifications

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- A fast process: CVs reviewed within 48 hours and no take-home or live coding test

/n If this sounds like an prospect for you or someone you know, "Apply now" or message Guy Nardo at PRA for a confidential conversation. These roles have the opportunity to start before Christmas.

📌 AI Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 PRA
📍 Sydney