Senior Applied AI Engineer

Job description

Your new company
Join a leading financial services organisation investing heavily in Applied AI and next-generation engineering capabilities.

Your new role
As a Senior Applied AI Engineer, you'll lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale agentic AI platforms.
Key responsibilities:
  • Build production-grade AI agents using RAG, semantic search, vector databases and AWS Bedrock.
  • Drive AI systems through to production, covering deployment, observability, evaluation and optimisation.
  • Define engineering standards across AWS and Infrastructure-as-Code.
  • Implement AI guardrails including validation, hallucination detection and output filtering.
  • Design and build MCP servers and integrations connecting AI agents with enterprise systems and tools.
  • Evaluate and implement emerging agentic AI patterns, including multi-agent architectures and agent-to-agent communication.
  • Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across the AI development lifecycle.
What you'll need to succeed
  • c. 7+ years' experience in Software Engineering, AI Engineering or a related discipline.
  • Proven experience building and operating production-scale LLM and agentic AI solutions.
  • Deep understanding of agentic architectures, tool use, reasoning, orchestration, memory and multi-agent systems.
  • Strong experience with AWS, AWS Bedrock, LangChain, Strands or similar AI frameworks.
  • Experience building RAG solutions, semantic search capabilities and applications powered by vector databases.
  • Expertise in prompt engineering, context management and model evaluation.
  • Strong communication skills and experience leading or mentoring engineering teams.
  • Financial services experience highly regarded.
What you'll get in return
  • Opportunity to shape the technical direction of a greenfield Applied AI function.
  • Ownership of architecture and engineering standards for enterprise AI platforms.
  • Exposure to cutting-edge agentic AI technologies and large-scale AI initiatives.


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Job Summary

  • Published on: 22 Jul, 2026
  • Category: Software Development
  • Vacancy: 1
  • Job type: Contractor
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  • Location: NSW - Sydney CBD
  • Job Nature: Contractor

Company Details

  • Name: Hays
  • Location: NSW - Sydney CBD