Lead AI Engineer
Opus Recruitment Solutions · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Apply & track with Apply Edge🚀 Lead / Staff AI Engineer 🚀OpenAI Backed FDE World LeaderSydney Or Melbourne$200,000 - $340,000 plus super + Equity We're working with a rapidly growing AI business helping major enterprises deploy cutting-edge GenAI solutions that deliver real business outcomes.This is a highly autonomous role where you'll lead projects from problem definition through to production, partnering directly with customers and owning key architectural decisions. You'll stay hands-on while influencing technical direction across multiple engagements.What You'll DoLead end-to-end GenAI and Agentic AI projectsDesign scalable architectures and make key technical decisionsBuild production-grade LLM and AI-powered applicationsDevelop agent workflows, tool integrations, and evaluation frameworksMentor engineers and drive engineering best practicesWork directly with enterprise stakeholdersSolve complex problems using Python and modern AI technologiesWhat We're Looking ForStrong Python software engineeringProven examples of building and deploying GenAI, LLM, RAG or Agentic AI solutionsProven architecture and system design capabilityStrong production mindset around reliability, testing and scalabilityComfortable engaging with customers and senior stakeholdersWhy Join?Work on AI projects that actually make it into productionOwn architecture and technical directionBuild products that reach production fastPartner directly with some of the world's largest organisationsCollaborate with exceptional engineers🚀 Lead / Staff AI Engineer 🚀OpenAI Backed FDE World LeaderSydney Or Melbourne$200,000 - $340,000 plus super + Equity