Senior AI Engineer — Azure & LLM Solutions Lead

RACV Limited; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Insurance discounts

RACV Club membership

Partner discounts

Job summary

RACV Limited is seeking an experienced Senior AI Engineer to lead the design, delivery and operation of enterprise-grade AI solutions on our Azure platform. The role blends hands-on software engineering with strategic architecture and leadership across the engineering team.

You will mentor engineers, champion responsible AI practices, and collaborate with Data Scientists and platform teams to deploy AI capabilities at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of designing, building and operating enterprise-scale software with 3+ years AI engineering experience.
• Strong experience delivering cloud-native apps on Microsoft Azure.
• Expertise in system design, observability, reliability and operational excellence.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Bicep) and modern CI/CD practices.
• Understanding of APIs, event-driven architectures, microservices and enterprise integrations.
• Proven production AI delivery using LLMs, RAG and agentic AI patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design and delivery of complex full-stack applications on RACV's Azure platform.
• Build scalable AI-enabled applications using TypeScript, Python and Azure technologies.
• Develop, deploy and operate AI solutions including LLM-powered and agentic AI.
• Drive architecture decisions, standards and code quality across teams.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists and platform teams to operationalise AI capabilities.
• Lead AI evaluation, testing and safety practices in production.
• Mentor engineers through reviews and coaching to uplift capability.
• Promote modern AI-native development practices and tools.

Skills

AI engineering

Azure cloud

System design

CI/CD

Code quality

Mentoring

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Bicep

Langchain

LlamaIndex

PydanticAI

Semantic Kernel

GitHub Copilot

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Job description

RACV Limited is seeking an experienced Senior AI Engineer to lead the design, delivery and operation of enterprise-grade AI solutions on our Azure platform. The role blends hands-on software engineering with strategic architecture and leadership across the engineering team.

You will mentor engineers, champion responsible AI practices, and collaborate with Data Scientists and platform teams to deploy AI capabilities at scale.