Senior AI Engineer

Contract Type:

Location:

Melbourne - VIC 

Industry:

IT

Category:

Engineer - Software

Contact Name:

Lindie Graham

Contact Email:

Lindie.Graham@pra.com.au

Date Published:

25-Mar-2026

Senior AI Engineer (Agents & Platform)
Melbourne | Hybrid | 3 office days 
Contract: 6months+ 
Daily Rate: $1000 flex

We’re looking for a Senior AI Engineer to sit at the intersection of platform and product — building real-world agentic experiences while shaping the platform that powers them.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys shipping agents end-to-end, while also improving the underlying platform to make it easier for other engineers to build with AI.

What you’ll be doing:
  • Design and ship full-stack agent experiences(chat UIs, streaming responses, tool visualisation)
  • Build and integrate Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers into LLM workflows
  • Develop secure, user-aware agents(OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, scoped tool access)
  • Improve agent reliability in production through observability, tracing, and evals
  • Contribute to the AI platform — making it easier for teams to adopt and scale agentic systems
  • (Nice to have) Design multi-agent systems(A2A, orchestration, delegation patterns)
Tech & Experience:
  • Strong experience building LLM-powered agents / applications
  • Frontend capability (React or similar) for building interactive AI experiences
  • Experience with tooling frameworks / protocols(e.g. MCP, LangChain, custom tool schemas)
  • Understanding of auth in distributed systems(OAuth2, OIDC, JWT)
  • Experience with observability & evals(e.g. LangSmith, OpenTelemetry)
  • Ability to operate in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
What sets you apart:
  • You make progress without a playbook
  • You know when to prototype vs productionise
  • You collaborate across engineering, platform, and product
  • You challenge what’s not working and adapt quickly
This is a super interesting role that will give your resume such a boost!  We are specifically looking for candidates with " Real World" experience in the above ideally working for another Tech company where you have been able to do this in a commercial environment. 

Please apply via SEEK. 
Due to volumes of applications, we can't accept phone calls or enquiries for this role.  Simply apply if you're interested and we will contact you if you're a match.  
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