Senior AI Engineer - AI-Native Systems & Productionization

UCentric; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

UCentric is partnering with a growing technology organisation to appoint a Senior AI Engineer. This senior individual contributor role focuses on moving AI from prototyping to production-grade engineering, shaping AI across the engineering lifecycle.

You will define patterns and standards for AI-native development, work on agentic software workflows, and contribute to platform architecture while improving testing and observability.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a senior software engineer.
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• Strong software engineering and architecture background.
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• Experience building and operating complex production systems.
• 2
• Demonstrated experience taking AI-enabled products from prototype into production.
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• Strong understanding of AI-native and agentic engineering.
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• Experience with AI-generated code, coding agents or agent orchestration.
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• Strong understanding of evaluation, automated testing and observability.
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• Experience designing scalable, reliable and maintainable systems.
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• Strong technical communication and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Define practical AI-native engineering patterns and standards.
• Develop approaches for agentic software development and workflow automation.
• Establish frameworks for evaluating AI-generated code and agent outputs.
• Improve automated testing, regression testing and AI evaluation practices.
• Develop observability and monitoring approaches for AI systems in production.
• Establish appropriate controls, guardrails and human oversight for AI agents.
• Contribute to platform architecture and complex technical decisions.
• Analyse production failures and improve system reliability and scalability.
• Influence senior engineers and drive adoption of effective engineering practices.
• Mentor engineers and share technical knowledge across the organisation.

Skills

Senior software engineer

AI-native engineering

Agentic engineering

Production systems

Software architecture

Code evaluation/observability

Job description

UCentric is partnering with a growing technology organisation to appoint a Senior AI Engineer. This senior individual contributor role focuses on moving AI from prototyping to production-grade engineering, shaping AI across the engineering lifecycle.

You will define patterns and standards for AI-native development, work on agentic software workflows, and contribute to platform architecture while improving testing and observability.