Senior AI Engineer: LLMs, RAG, Agentic Workflows

Opus Recruitment Solutions; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Opus Recruitment Solutions seeks an AI-focused software engineer to design and ship LLM-powered applications for enterprise clients. You will build backend services, data pipelines, and integration layers to keep AI systems reliable in production.

You will translate business problems into scalable AI solutions, collaborating with stakeholders to drive AI adoption in fast-moving environments and shaping end-to-end solution design from discovery to deployment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on engineering across backend, ML engineering, data science, or applied AI.
• Experience building and shipping production systems used by real users.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG, agents, or GenAI applications.

Responsibilities

• Design and build LLM-powered applications including RAG systems and AI automation tools.
• Build backend services, APIs, data pipelines and integration layers for production AI.
• Translate complex business problems into scalable AI solutions with measurable impact.
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to guide AI adoption.

Skills

Python

LLMs

RAG architectures

Agentic workflows

Production systems

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

APIs

Job description

Opus Recruitment Solutions seeks an AI-focused software engineer to design and ship LLM-powered applications for enterprise clients. You will build backend services, data pipelines, and integration layers to keep AI systems reliable in production.

You will translate business problems into scalable AI solutions, collaborating with stakeholders to drive AI adoption in fast-moving environments and shaping end-to-end solution design from discovery to deployment.