Senior Engineer - AI

LAB3 is one of Australasia’s largest Azure engineering practices, specialising in Cloud & DevOps, Data, IoT & AI, Modern Workplace, Security, and Networks. They are seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join their Professional Services team to design, build, and operationalise AI solutions that deliver measurable value for enterprise clients, working across the AI lifecycle from prototyping to production.

Responsibilities:

• Work with clients to understand requirements, shape technical solutions, and deliver Agentic AI and GenAI workloads on Azure
• Build production‑grade applications with CI/CD, monitoring, and observability
• Develop robust RAG pipelines, optimise prompts, improve latency/cost, and design evaluation/test frameworks for LLM‑based systems
• Implement MLOps with Azure ML/Databricks including experiment tracking, model registry, feature stores, automated deployment, and IaC
• Establish operational telemetry and model monitoring (drift, bias, quality)
• Work with data engineers across ADLS, Delta Lake, EventHub, Synapse/Fabric, APIs, and vector databases to enable scalable hybrid retrieval architectures
• Apply enterprise‑grade security (Entra, networking, secrets, RBAC), embed responsible AI practices, and produce HLD/LLDs
• Lead workshops, present to stakeholders, mentor engineers, and contribute to reusable components and accelerators