Senior AI Engineer - GenAI Architect (Hybrid, Melbourne)

iterate; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

iterate in Melbourne is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build enterprise-scale AI applications. The role is hybrid, with 3 days in the office, and focuses on generative and agentic AI, setting the technical direction for a growing team.

You will own end-to-end AI systems from PoC to production, collaborating with product managers, software engineers and data scientists to translate business requirements into production-ready AI solutions and contributing to system architecture

Qualifications

• Proven track record shipping production-grade systems across frontend and backend.
• Experience designing scalable APIs and secure coding practices.
• Exposure to AI/ML frameworks or platforms is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and owning scalable AI solutions from PoC to production.
• Collaborating with product managers, software engineers and data scientists to translate requirements into production-ready AI solutions.
• Contributing to system architecture and technical design decisions for AI-enabled products.
• Developing, evaluating and optimising LLM applications using RAG, prompt engineering and fine-tuning.
• Building secure, reliable and high-performing APIs and microservices that support AI capabilities.
• Staying ahead of emerging AI protocols, trends and standards and bringing them into enterprise use.
• Reviewing code, raising the bar on engineering quality and mentoring engineers.

Skills

Fullstack experience

Frontend React

RESTful APIs

CI/CD & DevOps

AI/ML exposure

Problem solving

Communication

Job description

iterate in Melbourne is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build enterprise-scale AI applications. The role is hybrid, with 3 days in the office, and focuses on generative and agentic AI, setting the technical direction for a growing team.

You will own end-to-end AI systems from PoC to production, collaborating with product managers, software engineers and data scientists to translate business requirements into production-ready AI solutions and contributing to system architecture