H2O.ai

Senior AI Engineer

H2O.ai
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3 days ago
Sydney, AustraliaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and build agentic AI systems and multi-agent frameworks for complex enterprise workflows.
  • Develop and deploy LLM-powered applications using RAG, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, function calling, and tool use.
  • Implement model distillation, synthetic data generation, PEFT-QLORA fine-tuning, guardrails, evaluation frameworks, and responsible AI controls.
  • Own the AI application lifecycle from problem framing and data exploration through model development, API integration, production deployment, and monitoring.
  • Build scalable backend services, REST APIs, ML pipelines, and LLMOps infrastructure.
  • Integrate AI models into cloud, on-premises, and hybrid customer environments.
  • Work directly with customer data scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders to translate business problems into AI solutions.
  • Contribute to pre-sales and proof-of-concept engagements and communicate technical designs and outcomes to varied audiences.
  • Collaborate with Program Managers, Solution Engineers, Kaggle Grandmasters, ML engineers, and domain experts.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of hands-on AI/ML engineering experience, including end-to-end model development and production deployment.
  • Demonstrable experience building LLM-powered applications, RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, or fine-tuned models.
  • Strong Python engineering skills.
  • Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, and LLM tooling such as LangChain or LlamaIndex, or equivalent tools.
  • Experience deploying models and AI services in AWS, Azure, GCP, on-premises environments, or Kubernetes.
  • Understanding of prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, RLHF, model evaluation, guardrails, and LLMOps.
  • Classical machine-learning knowledge and the ability to select appropriate approaches for different problems.
  • Backend development experience with REST APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Strong problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder collaboration skills.
  • Preferred: Kaggle or competitive ML experience; familiarity with TabH2O, TimeH2O, Lightning-JEV, tabular foundation models, AutoML, or enterprise ML platforms.
  • Preferred: Experience in financial services, healthcare, regulated-industry AI deployments, or customer-facing field engineering.

Benefits

  • Market leader in total rewards.
  • Remote-friendly culture and flexible working environment.
  • Career growth opportunities and membership in a world-class team.
  • The position is based in Sydney, Australia and is tagged as hybrid.
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About H2O.ai

201-500 employees

H2O.ai builds open-source and commercial platforms for machine learning and generative AI, used by enterprises and public-sector teams to develop models and applications on private data. Its portfolio includes H2O-3, Driverless AI, and tools for LLM fine-tuning and deployment, offered via subscriptions and cloud services. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Mountain View, it is privately held; customers include AT&T, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Workday, and the NIH.

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