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. We’re seeking for a Senior AI Engineer to join our 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. Must be based anywhere in Australia, a citizen, and ideally hold security clearance.

Solution Design & Delivery 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. GenAI & RAG Engineering Develop robust RAG pipelines, optimise prompts, improve latency/cost, and design evaluation/test frameworks for LLM based systems. MLOps & Platform Engineering 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). Data & Integration Work with data engineers across ADLS, Delta Lake, EventHub, Synapse/Fabric, APIs, and vector databases to enable scalable hybrid retrieval architectures. Security, Governance & Consulting 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.