AI Engineer

Line of Service

Industry/Sector

Specialism

Management Level

Job Description & Summary

Permanent

Sydney - Hybrid Full time

Open for Associate Senior Associate and Manager grade candidates

At PwC Australia the Advisory Technology team helps solve practical challenges faced by both our diversified Advisory business and our clients. As an AI Engineer youll play a vital role in understanding of practical digital technologies and the ability to understand and solve complex business problems working with clients across Advisory Technology to adopt emerging technologies; understand our customers problems; apply digital solutions in innovative and progressive manners to support technological transformation of modern businesses.

Why PwC

At PwC Australia your skills meet purpose. We tackle big challenges across industries like finance technology energy and healthgiving you the chance to make a real impact. Here your growth is our priority. Youll work with leading teams explore new technologies and unlock your full potential.

Join a global community of more than 370000 people who value bold ideas collaboration and lasting change. Together were building trust and shaping the future.

What youll do:

• Scoping and delivering enterprise-ready AI solutions backed by your foundational skills in AI engineering operations and lifecycle management.

• Implementing agentic workflows including; future state planning tool/function calling guardrails handoffs and memory/state.

• Building effective retrieval-augmented workflows to support business processes including; optimising chunking and retrieval strategies.

• Effective usage of guardrails & safety controls to push for high quality and safe usage of AI regardless of project scale.

• Consulting acumen to run discovery and design sessions scope Proof of Concept (PoC)/Minimum Viable Product (MVP) communicate risks/assumptions and collaborate with clients and internal stakeholders to deliver outcomes.

What were looking for:

• Proficient in programming with Python and/or TypeScript/ focusing on retrieval techniques like embeddings vector databases and chunking strategies.

• Experienced with agentic workflows using OpenAI Agents SDK and Google ADK plus LLM observability through tracing evaluation and monitoring.

• Familiar with FastAPI LangGraph and cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) alongside security protocols like JWT and OAuth.

• Knowledgeable in various tools and frameworks including Pinecone pgvector Weaviate OpenAI Anthropic Databricks MLflow and more for AI/ML development and deployment.

• Excellence in written and verbal communication skills with a passion for technology and a strong client focus.

What youll gain:

• The opportunity to work with leading organisations and cutting-edge technology that challenge and expand your expertise.

• Flexibility means trusting you to choose when where and how you workbalancing whats best for you your team and your clients to grow and thrive together.

• Clear paths for career progression supported by continuous learning and leadership development.

• Generous leave entitlements including four weeks annual leave and float public holidays to support your work-life balance.

• A world-class parental leave policy offering up to 26 weeks of leave for caregivers supporting your family and personal life.

We know that perks are as important as your financial rewards. Explore all the benefits that PwC has to offer here.

Ready to grow here and go further Join PwC Australia as an AI Engineer and make an impact that goes beyond the expected. Apply now and take your next step with a team shaping the future.

Were committed to treating all our job applicants fairly and with respect irrespective of their actual or assumed background disability neurodivergence or any other protected want you to have every opportunity to thrive in our selection the application form you can let us know what adjustments you require during our recruitment process and/or any workplace accommodations you anticipate needing to help you perform your role.

No Agencies Please: We kindly request that recruitment agencies do not submit CVs in response to this advertisement. We are only accepting applications direct from individuals.

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