Senior AI Platform Engineer

Starrez Inc; Central Coast Council; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly team lunches

Flexible hybrid workplace

Professional development opportunities

Global team meetings

Z-Factor values

Job summary

StarRez is seeking a Senior Engineer for the AI Platform team to build shared AI capabilities, agentic workflows, and platform infrastructure across StarRez products. The role focuses on production-grade AI systems, reusable foundations, and cross-functional collaboration.

You will work with Product, Design, Quality, Platform, Security, and Engineering teams to deliver observable, resilient, customer-focused AI solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial software engineering experience building production-grade applications.
• Strong backend engineering experience, ideally with .NET / C#.
• Experience designing and shipping distributed or SaaS systems at scale.
• Hands-on experience with LLM APIs and modern AI tooling (Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar)
• Familiarity with agentic patterns and frameworks including orchestration, RAG, prompt engineering, and tool use
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including API design, testing strategies, and maintainable architecture
• Experience with observability, debugging, and production support practices
• Comfortable contributing across the full stack where required (TypeScript/JavaScript, modern frontend frameworks)
• Experience working with cloud platforms and modern engineering workflows (Git, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Azure preferred)

Responsibilities

• Design and build agentic workflows and AI-powered product capabilities, including orchestration, tool use, retrieval, and multi-step reasoning
• Develop shared AI platform capabilities, frameworks, and engineering patterns that support adoption across StarRez teams
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, and production-ready solutions
• Evaluate AI models, providers, and frameworks, making pragmatic decisions about adoption and implementation
• Contribute to engineering quality through clean architecture, testing, observability, code reviews, and operational support
• Stay engaged with the evolving AI landscape and help shape platform direction and engineering best practices

Job description

StarRez is seeking a Senior Engineer for the AI Platform team to build shared AI capabilities, agentic workflows, and platform infrastructure across StarRez products. The role focuses on production-grade AI systems, reusable foundations, and cross-functional collaboration.

You will work with Product, Design, Quality, Platform, Security, and Engineering teams to deliver observable, resilient, customer-focused AI solutions.