Principal AI Engineer — Hands-on Enterprise AI Leader

Fyndr Group

Sydney

On-site

AUD 210,000 - 270,000

Full time

11 hours ago
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Job summary

Fyndr Group is seeking a Principal AI Engineer to join a specialist AI consultancy delivering production AI systems for enterprise organisations. This is a hands-on role; you will work directly with customers, lead technical direction and remain close to the code throughout delivery, spanning LLMs, retrieval, and agentic architectures.

You will build and ship production Python services, shape solutions from discovery to production, mentor engineers, and balance simplicity with reliability while

Qualifications

  • Delivered production AI applications that customers rely on.
  • Excellent Python software engineer with leadership ability.
  • Experience designing applications using LLMs, retrieval or agentic architectures.
  • Sound engineering decisions; balance simplicity with reliability.
  • Able to design APIs and integrate distributed systems across complex environments.
  • Clear communication with engineers and customers.
  • Ownership of difficult technical problems through production.
  • Focus on software quality, reliability and meaningful business outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the technical design of enterprise AI solutions from discovery through to production.
  • Build and ship production Python applications and services.
  • Design and implement RAG and agentic AI systems.
  • Integrate AI capabilities into existing customer platforms and software products.
  • Work directly with technical and business stakeholders to understand complex problems and shape practical solutions.
  • Make architecture and engineering decisions that balance simplicity, reliability and long‑term maintainability.
  • Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews and mentoring.
  • Improve the evaluation, monitoring and operational performance of production AI systems.
  • Stay hands‑on throughout delivery.

Skills

Python
Production AI
Architectural design
APIs
Distributed systems
Mentoring
Customer communication

Job description

Fyndr Group is seeking a Principal AI Engineer to join a specialist AI consultancy delivering production AI systems for enterprise organisations. This is a hands-on role; you will work directly with customers, lead technical direction and remain close to the code throughout delivery, spanning LLMs, retrieval, and agentic architectures.

You will build and ship production Python services, shape solutions from discovery to production, mentor engineers, and balance simplicity with reliability while

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