Lead AI Engineer: GenAI & LLM Production Solutions

Opus Recruitment Solutions Limited; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Opus Recruitment Solutions Limited partners with a world-leading AI company to assemble a brand-new engineering team across Australia. You will design, build, and deploy production‑grade AI applications for enterprise customers, solving complex business problems with GenAI, LLMs, and AI agents.

This is a hands-on role owning solutions from concept through deployment, mentoring engineers, and shaping best practices while ensuring reliability, security, and scalable performance in production

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering experience with Python and modern application development practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy production-grade AI applications for enterprise clients.
• Lead technical delivery across the full software development lifecycle.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering best practices.
• Optimize AI solutions for reliability, scalability, security, and performance.
• Develop scalable AI solutions using Python, APIs, microservices, cloud platforms.

Skills

Python

GenAI & LLMs

AI Agents

Multi-Agent Systems

Cloud platforms

Tools

APIs

Microservices

Job description

Opus Recruitment Solutions Limited partners with a world-leading AI company to assemble a brand-new engineering team across Australia. You will design, build, and deploy production‑grade AI applications for enterprise customers, solving complex business problems with GenAI, LLMs, and AI agents.

This is a hands-on role owning solutions from concept through deployment, mentoring engineers, and shaping best practices while ensuring reliability, security, and scalable performance in production