Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineer

University of Sydney; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 131,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

17% superannuation

Parental leave entitlements

Salary packaging options

Flexible and hybrid working

Job summary

University of Sydney seeks an experienced AI Engineer to operate and evolve its enterprise AI environment, ensuring secure, reliable and responsibly managed AI-enabled systems. You will cover the full engineering lifecycle—from understanding business needs to deployment, monitoring, and ongoing optimisation—focusing on reliability, model assurance and governance rather than building models from scratch.

You will collaborate with architects, engineers, product teams and governance to translate

Qualifications

• Extensive commercial experience delivering and supporting AI-enabled platforms in large organisations.
• Strong coding capability in Python and SQL with version control and automation.
• Hands-on experience with AI platforms such as Copilot, OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, LLM-based services.
• Strong data management and engineering capability to troubleshoot and improve AI systems.
• Understanding of secure and responsible enterprise AI practices including governance and risk assessment.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Relevant tertiary qualification in CS/ICT or equivalent training and experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy and operate scalable AI-enabled platforms and tools.
• Monitor AI platforms and generative tools across cloud environments.
• Respond to incidents, conduct root cause analysis and implement preventative improvements.
• Plan upgrades, patches, performance tuning and maintenance for AI services.
• Validate AI model performance and ensure explainability and alignment with assurance standards.
• Support data pipelines and data management underpinning AI systems.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, product teams and governance functions to translate requirements into solutions.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Python/SQL

AI platforms

Data engineering

Security & governance

Analytical skills

CS/ICT degree

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, ICT or related

Tools

Git

Job description

Solve by Talent is partnering with the University of Sydney to recruit an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineer to support the delivery of key Information and Communications Technology (ICT) initiatives that help shape the future of education, research, and innovation.

Salary of $131,108 to $147,858 + 17% Superannuation.

To be eligible for this role, you must have unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of the appointment (PR or Australian Citizenship).

Why join the University of Sydney?

Join one of Australia’s leading universities at a pivotal point of change, where technology is evolving to better support student learning, empower teaching excellence, and enable research delivery at global scale.

ICT is central to delivering the University’s academic mission. Working across faculties, disciplines, and research communities, you will shape the platforms, services, and partnerships that enable student success, strengthen teaching, and accelerate research impact.

With strong investment and clear direction, you’ll operate in a large and complex environment where your contribution has visible, meaningful impact across the University.

The opportunity

This role offers the opportunity to play a key part in operating and evolving the University’s enterprise AI environment, ensuring AI-enabled systems and generative AI tools are secure, reliable and responsibly managed.

You’ll work across the full engineering lifecycle of AI-enabled systems, from understanding business needs and shaping technical solutions through to development, deployment, monitoring, support and ongoing optimisation.

This is a hands‑on engineering role with a strong focus on operational reliability, model assurance and responsible AI, oppose to building AI models from scratch.

What you’ll do

• Design, develop, deploy and operationalise scalable AI-enabled platforms, solutions and tools.
• Administer, monitor and maintain AI-enabled platforms, services and generative AI tools in cloud environments.
• Monitor and support the observability of AI platforms and services, responding to incidents, conducting root cause analysis and implementing preventative improvements.
• Plan and deliver software upgrades, security patches, performance tuning and maintenance activities to keep AI services secure, reliable and efficient.
• Validate and monitor AI model performance, identify technical and operational risks, and ensure outcomes remain accurate, explainable and aligned with assurance standards.
• Support the infrastructure, data pipelines and data management practices underpinning AI systems.
• Partner with architects, engineers, product teams, governance functions and business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into practical technical solutions.

What we’re looking for

• Extensive commercial experience across cloud, software, platform or integration engineering, including hands‑on experience delivering and supporting AI-enabled platforms within a large, complex organisation.
• Strong coding capability in Python, SQL or similar languages, with experience in version control, testing and automation.
• Hands‑on experience with AI platforms such as Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, intelligent agents and other LLM-based services.
• Strong data management and engineering capability, including troubleshooting AI systems and improving performance, reliability and scalability.
• Demonstrated understanding of secure and responsible enterprise AI practices, including privacy, data protection, access controls, AI risk assessment, assurance, monitoring and governance in a complex organisational environment.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to translate business needs into practical technical solutions.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications in Computer Science, ICT or a related discipline, or equivalent training and experience.

What’s in it for you?

At the University of Sydney, we support our staff with a range of benefits designed to enhance your career, wellbeing and work‑life balance, including:

• 17% superannuation to support your financial future
• Generous parental leave entitlements
• Salary packaging options
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• Career development and learning opportunities
• Health and wellbeing programs, including Fitness Passport
• Access to a vibrant, globally recognised university community

Accessibility and inclusion

University of Sydney is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment experience for all candidates.

If you require any adjustments or additional support during the recruitment process, please let us know. This may include changes to the interview format, additional time, breaks, accessible interview locations, materials in advance, or other practical support to help you participate comfortably.

Any offer of employment will be subject to the successful completion of required pre-employment and background checks. Ongoing employment may also require you to maintain relevant clearances or checks required for the role.

To meet the University’s obligations under the National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Eliminate Gender-Based Violence, you may also be asked to declare whether you have been investigated for, or found to have engaged in, sexual harm or gender-based violence during previous employment or through a legal process.

If you’re looking to contribute to meaningful work in a world-class university environment, we’d love to hear from you.