Senior Ai Engineer

Ampol; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Employee Share Scheme

Novated Lease

BabyCare Package

Volunteer day

Fuel discount

Job summary

Ampol is seeking a skilled senior engineer to design, build, and operate agentic pipelines that connect AI agents to the software delivery lifecycle. You will wire agent harnesses into CI/CD workflows—from brief decomposition and code generation to PR review and deployment—while owning the orchestration layer and governance guardrails.

You will lead the adoption of these capabilities across teams, ensuring production-grade delivery, measured quality, and scalable infrastructure for AI-enabled

Qualifications

• Experience as a full-stack, cloud-native developer delivering end-to-end systems across the full stack (.Net, React, TypeScript).
• Strong fluency in TypeScript, React, and .NET with strict API boundaries and typing discipline.
• Experience with PaaS/serverless, IaC, and CI/CD workflows in modern cloud environments.
• Familiarity with agentic frameworks or related toolchains and governance in software delivery.

Responsibilities

• Define agent personas, tool boundaries, and typed interfaces between agents and internal systems.
• Build automated QA environments and feedback loops to feed delivery data back into agent context.
• Ensure agent outputs meet engineering standards: linting, type checking, security scanning, regression testing.
• Codify reusable agent definitions and pipeline templates for organization-wide adoption.
• Mentor engineers and uplift end-to-end capability in teams.

Skills

Full-stack development

TypeScript

React

.NET

CI/CD pipelines

Azure

Serverless

Agentic frameworks

Tools

Azure Functions

App Service

Container Apps

Terraform

Bicep

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Kubernetes

Job description

At Ampol, we believe in the Power of Us - the extraordinary power of people to connect, act, and make a difference.

As a leading energy company operating across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and from the United States, our work spans fuel supply, energy solutions, convenience retail, infrastructure, trading and shipping. Every role at Ampol plays a part in something bigger - powering progress for our customers, communities, and people.

Your career here is yours to shape. We back our people with real opportunities, the tools to grow, and a culture that rewards ownership and initiative. Whether you’re deepening your expertise or taking on something new, we’ll support you to power a career that works for you.

We’re building a workplace where everyone feels welcome, respected, and valued - because when people are free to be themselves, powerful things happen

Tech, Digital & Data @ Ampol

Technology, Digital and Data at Ampol are dedicated to empowering our business through technology-enabled differentiation, strengthening our foundations to build sustainable value for the future. Our team thrives on the challenge of innovation—dreaming upbig ideas, questioning the norm, and tackling complex problems. Together, we are shaping afuturethat not only meets the needs of today butanticipatesthe demands of tomorrow.

Our approach isanchoredin data-driven decision-makingand advanced technology integration, allowing us to create seamless and personalized customer experiences that truly resonate. By prioritizing value-based decisions and outcomes, we ensure that TDDdrives meaningful impact and measurable outcomes for the Ampol Group, leaving a lasting impact on our business and our customers.

About the role:

You will design, build, and operate the agentic engineering pipelines that connect AI agents to our software delivery lifecycle. This means wiring agent harnesses - whether IDE-embedded copilots, CLI-driven coding agents, or custom orchestration runtimes - into CI/CD workflows, from automated brief decomposition and code generation through to PR review, QA gate execution, and deployment.

You will own the orchestration layer: how agents are dispatched across foundation models (Claude, GPT, Gemini, open-weight alternatives), how work items flow through stages, how governance guardrails are enforced, and how delivery quality is measured. The role sits at the intersection of platform engineering and AI enablement — you are not building the models, you are building the infrastructure that makes them deliver production-grade software — and then ensuring that infrastructure is adopted and scaled across teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Define agent personas, tool boundaries, and typed interfaces between agents and internal systems
• Build automated QA environments and feedback loops that feed delivery data back into agent context
• Hold agent output to the same engineering rigour as human output — linting, type checking, security scanning, regression testing
• Ensure every boundary is typed, every error surfaced, and every unevaluatable gate blocks by default
• Codify reusable agent definitions, engineering standards, pipeline templates, and MCP modules for org-wide adoption
• Mentor engineers at all levels in agentic engineering and modern SDLC practices
• Pair with teams to embed agentic workflows and build end-to-end delivery ownershipRun uplift sessions, communities of practice, and retrospectives
• Champion engineering standards and governance that enable speed without breaking trust
• Measure success by the capability teams retain, not just what's shipped

Qualifications & Experience

• Background as a full-stack, cloud-native developer. Ideally you’ve built and shipped systems end to end across the full stack (.Net, React/Node/TypeScript)
• TypeScript, .NET, and React fluency - strict typing, typed boundaries, no shortcuts. You understand why an untyped API boundary between an agent and a database is a latent defect
• PaaS and serverless compute (Azure Functions, App Service, Container Apps), containerised workloads, infrastructure-as-code (Bicep or Terraform), and CI/CD pipeline design (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
• Experience with at least one agentic framework (CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, Spec Kit, or native tool-use loops via any of the recognised harnesses and foundation models)
• Proven ability to lead, influence, and mentor. You've uplifted end-to-end capability in teams, not just code. You’ve coached engineers across experience levels, championed engineering practices, and left teams stronger than you found them

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) and agent tool-use patterns
• Prompt, context, and spec engineering for code generation and autonomous task execution
• Observability tooling: structured logging, tracing, cost tracking across agent runs
• Experience establishing engineering communities of practice or internal developer platforms
• Our total remuneration is competitive. This is across base salary, a performance incentive, employee share offers and a 25% discount on Fuel for two privately used cars!
• We are flexible. Many of our teams have embraced hybrid work, balancing time spent remote working, with time spent at an office to connect and work together where it adds value.
• We value recognition. We have an internal recognition platform amplifying the achievements of those who do great work and demonstrate our capabilities and values.
• Career development and learning opportunities including LinkedIn Learning and other tailored training solutions.
• BabyCare Package - financial and flexible support for parents transitioning back to work.
• Need some wheels? Novated Lease options are available.
• Invest in your future with the Employee Share Scheme
• Access to Ampol's Benefits & Recognition platform providing you access to retail discounts and cashbacks at over 500+ retailers in Australia that assist with everyday living expenses
• Care for your Community. Spend one paid day a year volunteering with one of our Ampol Foundation partners.

Benefits

• Our total remuneration is competitive. This is across base salary, a performance incentive, employee share offers and a 25% discount on Fuel for two privately used cars!
• We are flexible. Many of our teams have embraced hybrid work, balancing time spent remote working, with time spent at an office to connect and work together where it adds value.
• We value recognition. We have an internal recognition platform amplifying the achievements of those who do great work and demonstrate our capabilities and values.
• Career development and learning opportunities including LinkedIn Learning and other tailored training solutions.
• BabyCare Package - financial and flexible support for parents transitioning back to work.
• Need some wheels? Novated Lease options are available.
• Invest in your future with the Employee Share Scheme
• Access to Ampol's Benefits & Recognition platform providing you access to retail discounts and cashbacks at over 500+ retailers in Australia that assist with everyday living expenses
• Care for your Community. Spend one paid day a year volunteering with one of our Ampol Foundation partners.

We’re an equal opportunity workplace. We not only embrace diversity and inclusion; we celebrate what makes you unique. We welcome applications from people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, and diverse sexualities and genders (including if you identify as transgender). We also highly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply for roles with Ampol.