Forward-Deployed AI Engineer | Hybrid, Canberra

TRC Group; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

TRC Group is partnering with a leading global consulting organisation to build a high-performing AI engineering team in Australia. The Forward Deployed Engineer will work directly with strategic clients, turning complex business challenges into production-ready AI solutions in real-world deployments.

Based in Canberra with a hybrid arrangement, the role spans AI engineering, software development, solution architecture and client delivery.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Python, Java, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript or Go.
• Experience building AI/LLM applications in production would be nice but complusory
• Cloud experience across AWS, Azure or GCP
• Excellent client-facing communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Building AI/LLM applications and agentic workflows
• Designing integrations, data pipelines and cloud architectures
• Rapidly prototyping and taking solutions into production
• Providing technical leadership and mentoring engineers
• Working directly with senior client stakeholders to shape solutions

Skills

Python

Java

C#

JavaScript/TypeScript

Go

Job description

TRC Group is partnering with a leading global consulting organisation to build a high-performing AI engineering team in Australia. The Forward Deployed Engineer will work directly with strategic clients, turning complex business challenges into production-ready AI solutions in real-world deployments.

Based in Canberra with a hybrid arrangement, the role spans AI engineering, software development, solution architecture and client delivery.