Senior AI & Automation Engineer (Agentic AI)

Location: New York City, United States; on-site at 1251 Avenues of the Americas with a hybrid schedule. Flexibility in work hours is required to collaborate across multiple time zones.

Salary: $200,000–$230,000 for full-time work in New York City.

Company

hirify.global is a major Australian superannuation fund and global asset owner with more than US $300 billion in assets under management.

What you will do

• Design, build, maintain, and evolve agentic AI, autonomous workflow, and intelligent automation systems across enterprise business and technology processes.
• Translate complex business problems into agent architectures, selecting models, tools, memory strategies, orchestration patterns, controls, and escalation mechanisms.
• Build RAG pipelines and integrate AI solutions with core applications, APIs, digital channels, data services, and Microsoft platforms.
• Operationalize AI agents and automation through DevOps and MLOps practices, managing deployment, evaluation, optimization, monitoring, support, and retirement.
• Lead solution design, provide technical direction and mentoring, and establish reusable engineering standards, patterns, guardrails, and best practices.
• Partner with business, Technology, Data, Digital, vendors, and service providers to identify opportunities and deliver safe, explainable, resilient, and compliant solutions.

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on technical engineering experience in complex enterprise environments, delivering robust, scalable, and supportable solutions.
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering agentic AI solutions, autonomous workflows, intelligent automation, orchestration, reasoning, planning, memory, tool use, and multi-agent patterns.
• End-to-end experience building, delivering, supporting, and continuously improving AI-enabled automation, decision-support, or autonomous solutions in enterprise settings.
• Strong conceptual understanding of generative AI, large language models, and agent-based system design.
• Experience designing autonomous solutions with guardrails, controls, human-in-the-loop mechanisms, and escalation paths.
• Strong experience with Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Automate, Power Apps, Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 services, and related AI and automation technologies.
• Tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical industry experience.
• Ability to own complex technical problems across requirements, design, implementation, deployment, optimization, operational support, and service management.
• Strong analytical, systems-thinking, communication, collaboration, business, and technical leadership capabilities, including the ability to work autonomously in ambiguous environments and manage competing priorities.
• Strong financial markets experience within an asset manager, institutional investor, or broker-dealer; experience supporting public and/or private market investment processes is essential.

Nice to have

• Design thinking and recognized architecture framework experience.
• Azure, cloud-native solution design, DevOps, MLOps, CI/CD, monitoring, and AI or automation lifecycle management experience.
• Experience in regulated environments such as financial services, superannuation, or insurance, with knowledge of AI governance, risk, privacy, ethics, and compliance.
• Agile, Lean, startup, or DevOps delivery experience; knowledge of ITIL and service management practices.
• Experience with ServiceNow and/or PowerShell scripting.
• Strong interest in emerging AI, agentic systems, automation, and intelligent platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, high-performing environment focused on integrity, generosity of spirit, energy, and excellent outcomes.
• Blended working environment with flexibility to support diverse needs and collaboration across multiple time zones.
• Generous 401(k) matching and health insurance.
• Inclusive workplace with reasonable adjustments available during recruitment or employment.
• AI is used to review resumes and conduct initial phone interviews; candidates invited to AI screening may opt for a traditional phone screening.

Hiring process

• Apply through the advertised application process and provide qualifications relevant to the role.
• Initial resume and phone-interview assessment may be conducted using AI; a traditional phone screening is available as an alternative when invited.