Senior AI Engineer, Agentic Systems (Production)

Minter Ellison; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Minter Ellison in Sydney is seeking an experienced AI engineer to build production AI systems in a regulated legal environment. You will own agent orchestration, evaluation, deployment and governance interfaces used by legal experts.

Join a small, senior AI Enablement team working with partners and subject-matter experts to translate regulatory rules into robust technical solutions on AWS, with a focus on security, observability, and compliance.

Qualifications

• production experience with LLM agent frameworks and tool-calling architectures, including systems deployed beyond the prototype stage
• a rigorous evaluation discipline and the ability to demonstrate whether a model or system change has improved performance
• experience applying Bayesian inference, Bayesian networks or comparable statistical reasoning to a real-world domain
• strong Python software-engineering capability
• sufficient React and TypeScript experience to build usable, expert-facing interfaces
• production AWS experience, including security and identity considerations relevant to regulated data
• sound judgement when working with non-technical experts
• a strong understanding of governance requirements associated with AI in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• design and build multi-agent orchestration, Model Context Protocol servers and supporting tooling for production legal workflows
• create deterministic evaluation harnesses and regression suites that make agent quality measurable
• implement OpenTelemetry tracing to improve the observability of agent runs
• model regulatory reasoning through Bayesian networks and related probabilistic techniques
• develop expert-facing interfaces that allow legal specialists to inspect and edit regulatory rules
• deploy and operate secure, observable and supportable platforms on AWS
• work directly with partners and subject-matter experts to translate legal judgement into robust technical systems
• contribute to appropriate governance and assurance for AI used in regulated work.

Skills

LLM agent frameworks

Tool-calling architectures

Python

React

TypeScript

AWS

Bayesian inference

Governance

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Model Context Protocol servers

Job description

Minter Ellison in Sydney is seeking an experienced AI engineer to build production AI systems in a regulated legal environment. You will own agent orchestration, evaluation, deployment and governance interfaces used by legal experts.

Join a small, senior AI Enablement team working with partners and subject-matter experts to translate regulatory rules into robust technical solutions on AWS, with a focus on security, observability, and compliance.