Senior AI Engineer: Applied Intelligence & Automation

ctrl:cyber; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible work options

Growth opportunities

Job summary

ctrl:cyber, an Australian cybersecurity firm, seeks a Senior Applied AI Engineer to lead AI-driven capabilities across internal and product systems. You will design intelligent agents, automation workflows, and secure APIs, collaborating with engineering teams to embed AI into the architecture.

You will work with LLMs, RAG, and modern AI frameworks, driving experiments and scaling successful prototypes into production-grade services within Azure-davored cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with exposure to AI/ML or intelligent automation systems.
• Strong programming experience, preferably Python, with production-grade software.
• Experience with large language models (LLMs) and modern AI frameworks.
• Experience building AI-powered applications using prompt engineering, retrieval (RAG), and agent/workflow orchestration.
• Designing AI systems with security, data privacy, and safe AI usage in mind.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of AI-powered agents and intelligent automation workflows for internal operations and customer-facing products.
• Architect and integrate AI features within the product ecosystem, including automated insights, recommendations, and natural language interfaces.
• Design secure, scalable AI services and APIs connecting AI systems with internal platforms and external tools.
• Experiment with emerging AI technologies, scale prototypes into robust production systems.
• Define multi-step AI workflows and agent orchestration strategies for autonomous execution.
• Collaborate with senior engineers and cloud teams to integrate AI into the broader architecture.
• Establish best practices for production-grade AI systems including observability, reliability, and security.
• Mentor the team and contribute to AI strategy and roadmap.
• Shape the future roadmap for AI-driven products and operations.

Skills

Python

AI/ML

LLMs

Prompt engineering

Workflow orchestration

APIs

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Azure AI Foundry

Vector databases

Job description

ctrl:cyber, an Australian cybersecurity firm, seeks a Senior Applied AI Engineer to lead AI-driven capabilities across internal and product systems. You will design intelligent agents, automation workflows, and secure APIs, collaborating with engineering teams to embed AI into the architecture.

You will work with LLMs, RAG, and modern AI frameworks, driving experiments and scaling successful prototypes into production-grade services within Azure-davored cloud environments.