Senior AI Agent Engineer - Real-World Orchestration

Talent Forge Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent Forge Group in Sydney, Australia is seeking a senior engineer to own the model engineering for an agent-driven travel platform. You’ll shape the architecture and work directly with the founder to deliver reliable, live bookings across supplier APIs and policy rules.

You’ll design the agent runtime, memory and tooling, ensure safe, scalable execution, and build observability around latency and cost per task. The role demands deep backend experience and hands-on leadership from day one.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping stateful LLM agents with external integrations.
• Proven ability to explain architecture and execution of agent runtimes.
• Strong backend depth: Postgres, transactions, caching, and distributed failure modes.

Responsibilities

• Design agent runtime and harness orchestration, including checkpointing and budgets.
• Develop context engineering and persistent memory management.
• Implement typed tools and MCP integrations with safety against prompt injection.
• Ensure reliable transactions with idempotency and reconciliations.
• Collaborate with founder and own architecture.

Skills

Python asyncio

Stateful LLM agents

Agent framework explanations

PostgreSQL

Distributed systems

Security fundamentals

Job description

Talent Forge Group in Sydney, Australia is seeking a senior engineer to own the model engineering for an agent-driven travel platform. You’ll shape the architecture and work directly with the founder to deliver reliable, live bookings across supplier APIs and policy rules.

You’ll design the agent runtime, memory and tooling, ensure safe, scalable execution, and build observability around latency and cost per task. The role demands deep backend experience and hands-on leadership from day one.