Senior AI Engineer: Build Agentic AI (Hybrid)

Zurich 56 Company Ltd; Australia; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

5 weeks annual leave

Hybrid work arrangement

AUD$500 wellbeing payment

AUD$295 starter e-voucher

Global mobility

Job summary

Zurich’s Technology team seeks a Senior AI Engineer to design, build and operate production-grade agentic AI solutions. You will work across discovery, design, build, integration and production operation, guiding teams toward scalable, secure AI delivery.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering with language models, multi-agent orchestration and secure-by-design practices, within a hybrid workplace in Australia.

Qualifications

• Significant software engineering experience building AI or LLM-based systems in production.
• Production experience with AI agents using LangGraph, AWS Strands or AgentCore and MLOps patterns.
• Strong AWS engineering knowledge (Bedrock, SageMaker, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB/RDS, IAM).
• Full-stack skills in TypeScript/Node.js and Python; frontend in React/Next.js.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate production-grade agentic AI solutions using LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, multi-agent orchestration, tool use and prompt engineering.
• Create reusable AI services, reference patterns and guardrails to accelerate Zurich squads' AI delivery.
• Establish evaluation pipelines, observability and cost controls for agent quality, reliability and production run costs.
• Develop secure APIs and integration services connecting LLMs with enterprise platforms with contracts, authentication and data protection.
• Assess architecture options, define service boundaries, and present evidence-based security and scalability recommendations.
• Embed DevSecOps and secure-by-design practices via IaC, CI/CD, testing, least-privilege access and secrets management.

Skills

AI engineering

LangGraph

AgentCore

AWS Bedrock

REST API

GraphQL API

TypeScript

Node.js

Python

Security by design

Tools

AWS CDK

Terraform

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Zurich’s Technology team seeks a Senior AI Engineer to design, build and operate production-grade agentic AI solutions. You will work across discovery, design, build, integration and production operation, guiding teams toward scalable, secure AI delivery.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering with language models, multi-agent orchestration and secure-by-design practices, within a hybrid workplace in Australia.