Senior AI Engineer - Hybrid
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Summary
Hands-on Senior AI Engineer in Wesfarmers OneDigital's AI Accelerator, designing and building production AI/LLM solutions at scale for Australia's leading retail brands, while setting architecture, coding standards, and LLMOps practices and mentoring engineers. Core stack: LLMs, RAG, agents, and cloud AI services (Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI).
Work options: Hybrid Wesfarmers OneDigital is building Australia's leading data and digital retail ecosystem, underpinned by AI across everything we do. We operate across four pillars - loyalty, data, retail media and AI, turning millions of customer interactions into insights that shape how Australians shop, live and connect. We're expanding one of our most innovative teams and are looking for exceptional talent to join the AI Build Squad to help our divisions make the most of emerging technol…
What they ask for
Required
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant recent focus on AI/ML implementation
- Demonstrated experience designing and building production AI systems operating at scale
- Track record of technical leadership: setting standards, mentoring engineers, owning architectural decisions
- Experience working within enterprise environments, navigating security, compliance, and integration requirements
- Familiarity with modern AI development stacks including LLMs, agent frameworks, and cloud AI services (Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI)
- Understanding of LLMOps and AI operationalisation practices: monitoring, evaluation, deployment pipelines, production management
- Deep proficiency in modern languages and AI/ML frameworks; familiarity with multiple languages advantageous
- Strong understanding of LLM architectures, prompt engineering, RAG patterns, agent design, and fine-tuning approaches
- Expertise in LLMOps: model monitoring, evaluation frameworks, deployment pipelines, cost management, production observability
- Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, AWS) and associated AI/ML services
- Solid software engineering fundamentals: version control, CI/CD, testing, observability, security practices
- Leadership and coordination skills for managing contract engineers and technical delivery
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders
Preferred
- Relevant tertiary qualification in business, technology, or related field