Agentic Discovery Engineer

IAG; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Superannuation 13%

Annual leave 20 days + 5 MyLeave

Work from home flexibility

Up to 50% off personal insurance (home

Partner discounts on health insurance,

Parental leave 20 weeks

LinkedIn Learning & IAG Academy

Study assistance & secondment

Job summary

IAG is seeking an Agentic Discovery Engineer to build and experiment with agentic systems from the ground up. You’ll prototype workflows, test LLM behaviours, and iterate in real environments to uncover what works.

Join a permanent, hybrid role based in Naarm (Melbourne) or Gadigal Country (Sydney) and influence how agentic engineering scales with real-world validation.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering foundations (Python or similar).
• Practical experience building LLM/agentic applications.

Responsibilities

• Build and run agentic prototypes to explore problems, feasibility, and solution paths.
• Design LLM-powered workflows including tools, retrieval, and orchestration.
• Experiment with models, prompts, and architectures to balance quality, cost, and performance.
• Capture reusable context, assumptions, and agent behaviours for future scaling.
• Create and run lightweight evaluations to test effectiveness and outcomes.
• Identify and document risks, limitations, and failure patterns.
• Continuously refine prototypes using stakeholder and user feedback.
• Collaborate with product and platform leads to reduce ambiguity and delivery risk.
• Produce clear handover artefacts with validated approaches and recommendations.
• Use modern agentic tools, stay current with advancements, and operate within ethical and safety boundaries.

Skills

Python

LLM/applications

Agentic concepts

Experiment design

Documentation

Ambiguity tolerance

Job description

At IAG, we’re ready for you. We're the largest general insurance group in Australia and New Zealand. Our family of brands turns the IAG purpose of making your world a safer place into action by helping everyday Aussies and New Zealanders, supporting their ambitions and making insurance accessible.

Step into the frontier of AI engineering, where problems are undefined and possibilities are wide open. As an Agentic Discovery Engineer, you’ll turn ambiguity into clear, validated direction by building and experimenting with agentic systems from the ground up. This is not a role for passive analysis—you’ll learn by doing, rapidly prototyping workflows, testing LLM behaviours, and iterating in real environments to uncover what actually works.

Working closely with Product, Platform, and Outcome Leads, you’ll shape solution direction at the earliest stage by producing tangible evidence: prototypes, evaluations, prompts, and insights that bring clarity to complexity. Your work will directly enable engineering teams to scale solutions with confidence, grounded in real-world validation rather than assumptions.

This role is designed for engineers who are naturally curious, hands-on, and excited by modern AI tooling. If you thrive in uncertainty, enjoy experimenting your way to answers, and want to play a defining role in how agentic systems are built, this is your opportunity to have real impact at the cutting edge.

This is a permanent position, which offers a flexible hybrid work model based in Naarm (Melbourne) or Gadigal Country (Sydney).

What You’ll Do

• Build and run agentic prototypes to explore problems, feasibility, and solution paths.
• Design LLM-powered workflows including tools, retrieval, and orchestration.
• Experiment with models, prompts, and architectures to balance quality, cost, and performance.
• Capture reusable context, assumptions, and agent behaviours for future scaling.
• Create and run lightweight evaluations to test effectiveness and outcomes.
• Identify and document risks, limitations, and failure patterns.
• Continuously refine prototypes using stakeholder and user feedback.
• Collaborate with product and platform leads to reduce ambiguity and delivery risk.
• Produce clear handover artefacts with validated approaches and recommendations.
• Use modern agentic tools, stay current with advancements, and operate within ethical and safety boundaries.

What You’ll Bring

• Strong software engineering foundations with hands-on experience in Python or similar.
• Practical experience building LLM or agentic applications through projects or early roles.
• Understanding of agentic concepts like tool use, retrieval (RAG), memory, and orchestration.
• Ability to analyse system behaviour, including edge cases, failures, and trade-offs.
• Experience designing and running experiments with meaningful evaluation methods.
• Strong communication skills to clearly document insights and share learnings.
• Comfortable working in ambiguity with a bias toward rapid, hands-on experimentation.
• Curious, fast learner who uses modern agentic tools and embraces feedback.

What We Offer

• Boosted superannuation with 13% as standard.
• 20 days annual leave + 5 days MyLeave (extra leave for what’s important to you).
• Work from home and many more flexibility options with myFlex.
• Up to 50% off personal insurance, including home and motor insurance.
• Partner discounts on private health insurance, tech & appliances, and many more.
• Industry-leading 20 weeks paid parental leave.
• Access to LinkedIn Learning, the award-winning IAG Academy, study assistance and secondment opportunities.
• employment type eligibility criteria apply

Applications close: Tuesday 20th October 2026 11:59PM AEDT

Adjustments and Support

If you require any support or adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process, we encourage you to reach out to [e-mail] for a confidential conversation.

More About Us

As part of IAG you’ll enjoy a world of career opportunities, a purpose-led place focused on creating connection and belonging, and where you can create meaningful impact every day and grow your career beyond the expected. That’s not just words. It’s our people promise. We’re ready for you with unexpected opportunities for your career, your work-life and your ability to make a difference. We celebrate all viewpoints shaped by life experiences and culture, and are guided by the knowledge and voice of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, businesses, and communities. We collaborate on Indigenous-led solutions that enable growth and create meaningful change for our customers and employees.