Senior AI Engineer

Contract Type:

Location:

Melbourne - VIC 

Industry:

IT

Category:

Engineer - Software

Contact Name:

Emma Beale

Contact Email:

Emma.beale@PRA.com.au

Date Published:

11-May-2026

Senior AI Engineer
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)
  • Intelligent logging, monitoring, and incident management
  • End-to-end Agentic workflows supporting faster issue resolution

Tech & Experience:
  • Strong experience building  LLM-powered agents / applications
  • Frontend capability (React or similar) for building  interactive AI experiences
  • Strong Python engineering experience
  • 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 challenge what’s not working and adapt quickly
  • Exposure to AI/LLM technologies or workflow automation
  • Comfortable working in fast-paced, innovation-led teams
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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