Senior AI Systems Engineer - Enterprise LLM Deployments

OpenAI Deployment Company; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI Deployment Company in Australia seeks a Senior Applied AI Software Engineer to lead design, build, and deployment of enterprise AI systems. You will own architecture across customer engagements and set engineering standards.

This role blends startup autonomy with enterprise scale, requiring mentoring, evaluation of models, and turning prototypes into durable production solutions.

Hybrid work, travel as needed, and close collaboration with product and research teams.

Qualifications

• Advanced software engineering experience in production AI systems.
• Strong Python and SQL skills.
• Hands-on leadership with distributed teams.
• Experience deploying agentic AI with LLMs.
• Ability translate field learnings to platform patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and production readiness for LLM-powered systems.
• Build AI applications, agents, and workflow tools.
• Mentor engineers and review designs.
• Work with customer technical teams and stakeholders.
• Prototype quickly and create reusable patterns.
• Design evaluation and monitoring for quality and safety.
• Surface field insights to guide product and research.

Skills

Senior software engineer

Python

SQL

LLMs

Agentic AI

Production systems

Tools

OpenAI APIs

Cloud platforms

Job description

OpenAI Deployment Company in Australia seeks a Senior Applied AI Software Engineer to lead design, build, and deployment of enterprise AI systems. You will own architecture across customer engagements and set engineering standards.

This role blends startup autonomy with enterprise scale, requiring mentoring, evaluation of models, and turning prototypes into durable production solutions.

Hybrid work, travel as needed, and close collaboration with product and research teams.