Senior Engineer - AI Platform (AI)

Location: Hybrid, based in Sydney or Melbourne, Australia

Company

hirify.global's Data, AI & Machine Learning department builds an internal AI orchestration platform and shared engineering patterns for safe, scalable AI development.

What you will do

• Lead development of the internal AI orchestration platform that enables teams to build and run AI agents safely at scale.
• Define technical standards and patterns aligned with strategic goals and engineering best practices.
• Design, build, deploy, and operate APIs and backend services in containerised environments.
• Develop secure agentic access patterns for data and tools, including authentication and authorisation services.
• Build governance, cost-tracking, evaluation tooling, starter templates, and shared patterns for AI delivery.
• Collaborate with product owners, business analysts, designers, and security teams while sharing knowledge and providing constructive feedback.

Requirements

• Considerable experience delivering production-grade software, including hands-on frontend experience with a modern framework such as React.
• Experience designing, building, deploying, and running APIs and backend services using Python or TypeScript in containerised environments.
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, modern Git workflows, and automated testing across the full software stack.
• Experience designing secure authentication and authorisation patterns, including OAuth/OIDC or similar approaches.
• Practical experience building agentic AI systems, including agent loops, tool calling, and frameworks such as pydantic-ai or LangGraph.
• Ability to explain technical trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders and curiosity about emerging technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with regular collaboration opportunities and team boost days.
• Human-first culture focused on respect, fairness, inclusion, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Generous paid leave, statutory holidays, dedicated physical and mental wellbeing leave, and an Employee Assistance Program.
• Health insurance, dental reimbursement, vision allowances, healthcare spending account, fertility and family-forming support, and wellbeing and sports programmes.
• Twenty-six weeks of parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, career development, employee resource groups, and flexible working.
• Office benefits include shared meals.