Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Bridge IT Engineering; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bridge IT Engineering seeks an experienced AI Solutions Engineer in Queensland to drive adoption of AI for a Queensland Government Department. The role is hands-on, moving AI ideas from intake to proof of concept and into a production-ready handover, with a focus on solution engineering, integration and assurance.

You will design and release AI agents, build connectors and orchestration, and ensure governance, security, and successful evaluation criteria across the solution lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Delivery of LLM-based solutions into pilot or production in an enterprise/government environment.
• Experience delivering multi-step agents or retrieval-grounded assistants used by real users.
• Practical build experience across Copilot Studio, Power Platform and Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility.
• Experience with SharePoint or Graph connectors and environment configuration.
• Strong retrieval architecture experience including embeddings, vector and hybrid search.
• Identity and permission design experience using Microsoft Entra ID.
• Knowledge of Purview sensitivity labelling and data loss prevention in AI exposure.
• Experience evaluating AI systems with measurable success criteria and release gates.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and release AI agents and retrieval-grounded assistants on approved platforms.
• Develop connectors, multi-step orchestration and human handoff workflows.
• Build retrieval-grounded solutions across departmental content.
• Define source selection, chunking and indexing strategy and grounding controls.
• Take proofs of concept into a production state with ownership, monitoring and support model.
• Integrate AI capability into departmental systems and data sources via APIs and data flows.
• Design identity and data-protection controls with least privilege and oversharing safeguards.
• Define and run AI solution evaluation including prompt-injection testing and release gates.
• Author technical assurance artefacts such as FAIRA/FAIRA Lite and privacy assessments.

Skills

LLM integration

Copilot Studio

Power Platform

Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility

SharePoint connectors

Retrieval-augmented engineering

Embeddings

Vector search

Identity design

Tools

Copilot Studio

Power Platform

Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility

SharePoint

Graph connectors

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Job description

Contract: 12 months + possible extension options

Bridge IT is seeking an experienced AI Solutions Engineer to support a Queensland Governemnt Department leading the adoption of artificial intelligence.

This is a hands-on technical role focused on taking AI ideas from intake through proof of concept to a supportable production handover. The role is weighted towards solution engineering, integration and assurance, rather than foundation model development.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and release AI agents and retrieval-grounded assistants on approved platforms.
• Build, test and release agents using Copilot Studio, SharePoint agents, Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility and Power Platform.
• Develop connectors, multi-step orchestration and human handoff workflows.
• Build retrieval-grounded solutions across departmental content.
• Define source selection, chunking and indexing strategy, retrieval tuning and grounding controls.
• Take proofs of concept into a supportable production state with ownership, monitoring, failure modes, cost profile and support model.
• Integrate AI capability into departmental systems and data sources through APIs, connectors and managed data flows.
• Design identity, permission and data-protection controls, including least privilege, permission inheritance, sensitivity labelling and oversharing controls.
• Define and run AI solution evaluation, including test sets, accuracy, groundedness, hallucination, prompt-injection testing and release gates.
• Author technical assurance artefacts, including FAIRA / FAIRA Lite, information security and privacy assessments, architecture and data-flow documentation.
• Assess third-party AI tools and provide technical input to vendor discussions.
• Support schools and delivery partners through reference implementations, reusable patterns, guidance and workshops.

To be successful, you will have:

• Demonstrated delivery of LLM-based solutions into pilot or production in an enterprise or government environment.
• Experience delivering at least one multi-step agent or retrieval-grounded assistant used by real users.
• Practical build experience across Copilot Studio, Power Platform and Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility.
• Experience with SharePoint or Graph connectors, environment configuration and data loss prevention.
• Strong retrieval architecture experience, including embeddings, vector and hybrid search and chunking strategy.
• Ability to diagnose and fix poor retrieval quality.
• Identity and permission design experience using Microsoft Entra ID.
• Working knowledge of Purview sensitivity labelling and data loss prevention as they apply to AI exposure.
• Experience evaluating AI systems, including hallucination testing, prompt-injection testing, measurable success criteria and release gates.

Highly Desirable

Experience across some of the following would be highly regarded:

• Python for integration, orchestration, automation and evaluation tooling.
• Source control and release automation using Azure DevOps or GitHub.
• Authorship of technical assurance evidence that has passed formal review.
• Security assessments, privacy assessments or architecture submissions.
• Deployment of open-weight or quantised models on self-hosted or isolated infrastructure.
• FAIRA, IS18, QGEA AI governance policy, business impact levels or Safer Technologies 4 Schools.
• School, child-facing, government or regulated environments.
• Relevant Microsoft certifications across AI, Power Platform, security or identity.

*Please note, only shortlisted applications will be contacted