Applied AI Prototyping Engineer

Skillfield; Australia; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Part time

Job summary

Skillfield is seeking an AI Engineer on a 1-year contract to prototype AI use cases, including summarisation and forecasting, and to validate value through proofs-of-concept. You will work with a multidisciplinary client team to assess feasibility and ROI, shaping AI deployments and best practices for business impact.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to identify opportunities, review data readiness, and iterate quickly in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of Agentic AI.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, NLP, and ML frameworks (Python, HuggingFace, LangChain).
• Experience handling unstructured data sources.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Rapidly prototype AI use cases such as summarisation, forecasting, and trend detection.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business challenges and identify potential AI applications.
• Analyse data availability, quality, and suitability for proposed AI solutions.
• Conduct feasibility studies and risk assessments for AI use cases.
• Develop prototypes and proofs-of-concept to validate assumptions and demonstrate potential impact.
• Provide clear recommendations on whether to proceed, pivot, or discard use cases based on findings.
• Stay updated on emerging AI technologies and advise on their applicability to business needs.
• Contribute to internal knowledge sharing and best practices.

Skills

Agentic AI

LLMs

NLP

Python

Experimentation

Model evaluation

Prompt engineering

Unstructured data

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Tools

HuggingFace

LangChain

Python

Job description

Skillfield is seeking an AI Engineer on a 1-year contract to prototype AI use cases, including summarisation and forecasting, and to validate value through proofs-of-concept. You will work with a multidisciplinary client team to assess feasibility and ROI, shaping AI deployments and best practices for business impact.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to identify opportunities, review data readiness, and iterate quickly in a fast-moving environment.