Lead AI Engineer

Opus Recruitment Solutions; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Opus Recruitment Solutions is partnering with a rapidly growing AI business to deliver GenAI and Agentic AI solutions for enterprise clients. This highly autonomous role puts you in the driver seat from problem definition to production, partnering directly with customers and owning architecture decisions.

You’ll stay hands-on while guiding multiple engagements, mentor engineers, and collaborate with some of the world’s largest organisations to deploy production-grade AI systems built with Python

Qualifications

• Proven experience building and deploying GenAI, LLM, or Agentic AI solutions.
• Strong architecture and system-design capabilities.
• Production-minded with reliability, testing, and scalability focus.
• Comfortable engaging with customers and senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end GenAI and Agentic AI projects.
• Design scalable architectures and make key technical decisions.
• Build production-grade LLM and AI-powered applications.
• Develop agent workflows, tool integrations, and evaluation frameworks.
• Mentor engineers and drive engineering best practices.
• Work directly with enterprise stakeholders.
• Solve complex problems using Python and modern AI technologies.

Skills

Python

GenAI/LLM

Architecture

Stakeholder communication

Job description

We're working with a rapidly growing AI business helping major enterprises deploy cutting-edge GenAI solutions that deliver real business outcomes.

This is a highly autonomous role where you'll lead projects from problem definition through to production, partnering directly with customers and owning key architectural decisions. You'll stay hands-on while influencing technical direction across multiple engagements.

What You'll Do

• Lead end-to-end GenAI and Agentic AI projects
• Design scalable architectures and make key technical decisions
• Build production-grade LLM and AI-powered applications
• Develop agent workflows, tool integrations, and evaluation frameworks
• Mentor engineers and drive engineering best practices
• Work directly with enterprise stakeholders
• Solve complex problems using Python and modern AI technologies

What We're Looking For

• Strong Python software engineering
• Proven examples of building and deploying GenAI, LLM, RAG or Agentic AI solutions
• Proven architecture and system design capability
• Strong production mindset around reliability, testing and scalability
• Comfortable engaging with customers and senior stakeholders

Why Join?

• Work on AI projects that actually make it into production
• Own architecture and technical direction
• Build products that reach production fast
• Partner directly with some of the world's largest organisations