AI Engineer — Production LLMs & Agentic Workflows (Hybrid)

TekFinder; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Permanent position

Job summary

TekFinder is seeking an experienced AI engineer to build and deploy LLM-powered applications and agentic workflows that solve real problems for teams across a large Australian enterprise.

You will design agent architectures, manage tool integration and retrieval, and collaborate with architects, data engineers and business stakeholders to shape requirements. Hybrid work options across Sydney or Melbourne support impactful, production-grade AI solutions.

Qualifications

• Production experience building with LLM APIs (major providers)
• Agentic patterns: tool use, multi-step orchestration, function calling
• RAG pipelines: chunking, embeddings, vector databases, retrieval tuning
• Strong Python and API development
• Cloud deployment on AWS, Azure or GCP with managed AI services (Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI)
• Evaluation, testing and guardrails for LLM outputs
• Comfortable shaping requirements with business stakeholders
• Australian citizenship or PR

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy LLM-powered applications and agentic workflows across the organisation
• Work with architects, data engineers and business stakeholders to shape requirements
• Design agent architectures and oversee tool integration, retrieval and guardrails
• Ensure secure production deployment and governance for AI solutions

Skills

Python

LLM APIs

API development

Guardrails

Stakeholder collaboration

Cloud deployment

RAG pipelines

Evaluation/testing

Tools

LangGraph

LlamaIndex

LLMOps tooling

Job description

TekFinder is seeking an experienced AI engineer to build and deploy LLM-powered applications and agentic workflows that solve real problems for teams across a large Australian enterprise.

You will design agent architectures, manage tool integration and retrieval, and collaborate with architects, data engineers and business stakeholders to shape requirements. Hybrid work options across Sydney or Melbourne support impactful, production-grade AI solutions.