Senior Applied AI Engineer — Enterprise Deployments (Sydney)

Openai Deployment Company; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI Deployment Company in Sydney, Australia is seeking a Senior Applied AI Software Engineer to lead design, build, and deployment of enterprise AI systems. You will own architecture across customer engagements and push prototypes toward production-grade solutions.

You will mentor engineers, evaluate model behaviour, and translate field learnings into reusable platform patterns. The role emphasizes agentic AI, OpenAI models, and robust software practices, with hybrid work and travel as needed.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building production AI applications and microservices.
• Proficient in Python and SQL for enterprise data apps.
• Hands-on LLM experience with agents, retrieval, evaluation, prompt engineering, and model integration.

Responsibilities

• Lead software engineering workstreams for customer deployments, owning architecture, implementation quality, evaluation strategy, and production readiness for LLM-powered systems.
• Build AI applications, agents, and workflow tools using LLMs, retrieval, orchestration, APIs, data systems, and production software practices.
• Guide engineers through ambiguous technical problems, reviewing designs, code, tradeoffs, and operating assumptions.
• Work directly with customer technical teams and business stakeholders to translate workflows into reliable AI systems.
• Prototype quickly, identify reusable patterns, and harden successful designs into reference architectures.
• Design evaluation and monitoring approaches that improve quality, reliability, safety, and customer trust.
• Surface field insights to Product and Research to inform roadmaps.

Skills

Python

SQL

LLM

APIs

Microservices

Data pipelines

Cloud infra

Production systems

Agentic AI

OpenAI APIs

Tools

OpenAI APIs

Job description

OpenAI Deployment Company in Sydney, Australia is seeking a Senior Applied AI Software Engineer to lead design, build, and deployment of enterprise AI systems. You will own architecture across customer engagements and push prototypes toward production-grade solutions.

You will mentor engineers, evaluate model behaviour, and translate field learnings into reusable platform patterns. The role emphasizes agentic AI, OpenAI models, and robust software practices, with hybrid work and travel as needed.