Generative AI Platform 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

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