AirTrunk

Staff AI Engineer

AirTrunk
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1 day ago
Sydney, AustraliaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design and build agentic AI applications that plan tasks, use tools, adapt to results, and manage context and memory.
  • Develop and review production code, application architecture, backend services, APIs, distributed systems, and enterprise integrations.
  • Take AI applications from prototypes through production and ongoing support, including automated tests, agent evaluations, controlled releases, monitoring, and operational readiness.
  • Partner with Platform engineers to support deployment across Azure, Databricks, and related services, including safe recovery from interruptions and prevention of repeated actions.
  • Build privacy, security, responsible AI, access control, credential protection, and human-review safeguards into agent designs.
  • Assess unsafe or unreliable behavior, resolve production issues, make architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and share reusable tools and practices.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, AI/ML engineering, or a related discipline, including hands-on delivery and operation of complex production systems and agentic applications.
  • Strong software architecture experience across APIs, backend services, distributed systems, and enterprise integrations, with sound complexity and trade-off judgment.
  • Advanced Python skills and strong engineering fundamentals, including automated testing, code review, version control, and maintainable design.
  • Working knowledge of SQL and data access patterns, plus practical understanding of context engineering, memory, agent evaluation, task completion, tool behavior, and failure recovery.
  • Experience delivering secure cloud applications using CI/CD, containers, and observability in partnership with platform teams.
  • Understanding of application security, privacy, Responsible AI, identity, authorization, model-output risks, and tool-execution risks.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership in architectural decisions, pragmatic delivery planning, cross-team influence, mentoring, and quality improvement through reusable patterns.
  • Experience with Azure and Databricks or comparable cloud and AI platforms is beneficial.
  • Experience with TypeScript or JavaScript, web application development, agent SDKs, MCP integrations, and AI-assisted software development is beneficial.

Benefits

  • Flexible and safe working environment with an inclusive culture.
  • Career growth and development through the Grow@Hyperscale program.
  • Collaborative, dynamic, transparent, and responsive workplace culture.
AirTrunk

About AirTrunk

501-1,000 employees

AirTrunk designs, builds, and operates hyperscale data centers across Asia-Pacific and the Middle East for cloud providers and large digital platforms. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in North Sydney, it is privately held and backed by Blackstone, with campuses in markets such as Australia, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, and Malaysia.

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