Senior AI Systems Engineer — Models, Deployment & Agents

AI Chopping Block; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual learning budget

Health and wellness allowance

Home office budget

Primary parental leave 26 weeks

Secondary parental leave 18 weeks

Fertility support up to $10,000

Work from anywhere 4 weeks per year

Equity

Job summary

Heidi seeks a Senior AI Engineer to own system design and customer outcomes across model customization, deployment, and agent systems. You will collaborate with clients to tailor AI solutions, balancing quality, cost and reliability while driving production readiness and measurable impact.

You will work with cross-functional teams to connect models with client data and tools, ensuring smooth delivery from discovery through production launch in healthcare settings.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in at least two of the areas above.
• Practical experience building or operating production AI systems.
• Solid software engineering or machine learning engineering skills.
• Familiarity with open-weight language models and the modern LLM ecosystem.
• Good judgement balancing model quality, cost, latency, and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Own system design, technical decisions and customer outcomes.
• Lead model customization, deployment planning, and agent workflows.
• Oversee customer delivery from discovery to production launch.
• Collaborate across teams to ensure scalable, reliable AI solutions.

Skills

Model customization

Deployment & inference

Agent systems

Customer delivery

Open-weight LLMs

Job description

Heidi seeks a Senior AI Engineer to own system design and customer outcomes across model customization, deployment, and agent systems. You will collaborate with clients to tailor AI solutions, balancing quality, cost and reliability while driving production readiness and measurable impact.

You will work with cross-functional teams to connect models with client data and tools, ensuring smooth delivery from discovery through production launch in healthcare settings.