Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Contract - 6months +
Melbourne based

About the opportunity:

• A leading Australian online business is scaling up its AI Business Transformation function and looking for a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to embed directly with business teams.
• This is a high visibility, high agency role at the intersection of business diagnosis, workflow redesign and applied AI engineering, not a traditional back office build role.
• You'll take raw business problems from discovery through build, evaluation, production adoption and measurable value, working alongside technology, data and compliance functions.
• Sits within a growing AI Business Transformation team.

The role:

• Translate raw business needs into clear problem statements, baselines and delivery plans, working directly with business stakeholders
• Redesign workflows across people, AI agents and systems, including human oversight, confidence thresholds and escalation paths
• Prototype, build, test, harden and deploy AI-enabled workflows across enterprise systems, integrating models, data, APIs and human tasks
• Define evaluation harnesses, regression suites and observability so solutions are safe, supportable and measurable in production
• Establish baselines and instrument metrics that prove real business value, not just AI usage or technical delivery

What you'll bring:

• 5+ years delivering technology enabled business change, with hands-on experience designing and building AI-enabled solutions
• Practical, hands-on experience shipping AI-enabled applications, agents or intelligent workflows, including orchestration, RAG and context engineering
• Ability to reason about model behaviour, failure modes and evaluation strategies, and make trade-offs across quality, latency, cost, reliability and risk
• Comfortable working across Python and/or TypeScript, APIs, SQL, cloud environments and CI/CD
• Experience with evaluation strategies, guardrails, observability and AI lifecycle management

What's on offer

• Daily Rate: Not disclosed
• Location: Melbourne CBD - Hybrid 1-3 office days
• Working in a new AI team with a business that's probably 6months ahead any other business in Australia in the AI game.

Ready to shape how AI is delivered inside a major Australian business? Apply now via SEEK.

Please note only suitable applicants will be contacted with full working rights and Melbourne based.