Senior AI & Automation Engineer
AustralianSuper1 day ago
Base Salary
$200k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, maintain, and evolve agentic AI and intelligent automation systems supporting autonomous planning, reasoning, task execution, and business processes.
- Translate complex business problems into agent-based architectures using appropriate models, tools, memory strategies, controls, and automation patterns.
- Develop orchestration, RAG, prompt, tool-use, planning, reasoning, exception-handling, and multi-agent solutions.
- Integrate AI and automation solutions with enterprise applications, APIs, digital channels, and data services.
- Operationalize and manage the complete lifecycle of AI agents and automation assets, including deployment, evaluation, optimization, support, retraining, and retirement.
- Monitor performance, drift, hallucination risk, unintended actions, incidents, and service degradation, implementing mitigation and continuous improvement.
- Design guardrails, human-in-the-loop controls, escalation paths, and governance measures addressing security, privacy, regulatory, and operational risks.
- Lead solution design, provide technical direction and mentoring, contribute to reusable standards and patterns, and collaborate with business, technology, data, digital, and vendor stakeholders.
Requirements
- At least 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.
- Experience delivering AI-enabled automation, intelligent automation, or decision-support solutions end-to-end in enterprise settings.
- Strong conceptual understanding of generative AI, large language models, and agent-based system design.
- Experience implementing guardrails, controls, human-in-the-loop mechanisms, escalation paths, and responsible AI practices.
- Strong experience with Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Automate, Power Apps, Copilot Studio, and Microsoft 365 services.
- Ability to own complex technical problems through requirements, design, implementation, deployment, optimization, operational support, and continuous improvement.
- Tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical industry experience.
- Strong business understanding of complex enterprise environments and experience in financial markets, particularly asset management, institutional investment, broker-dealer, public-market, or private-market processes.
- Desired experience includes Azure, cloud-native solution design, regulated environments, AI governance and compliance, DevOps/MLOps, CI/CD, monitoring, ITIL, ServiceNow, PowerShell, and recognized architecture or design-thinking frameworks.
- Strong communication, analytical, systems-thinking, collaboration, initiative, and technical leadership skills.
Benefits
- Compensation range of $200,000 to $230,000 for full-time work in New York City.
- Generous 401(k) matching and health insurance.
- Blended working environment with a hybrid schedule; the position is based on-site at 1251 Avenues of the Americas.
- Flexible work hours are supported and may be required when collaborating across multiple time zones.
- Inclusive workplace, diversity support, and reasonable adjustments during recruitment or employment.
Tech Stack
AzurePowerShell
Categories
About AustralianSuper
AustralianSuper is Australia’s largest superannuation fund, managing retirement savings, investment options and insurance for more than 3 million members. Operated as a profit-for-member fund, it invests globally and charges member fees, with no dividends paid to shareholders. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Melbourne, it manages long-term investment portfolios across asset classes to help Australians build retirement income.