Senior AI Engineer
PRA ·www.pra.com.au
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Senior AI Engineer
Melbourne | Hybrid | 3 office days
Contract: 6months+
Daily Rate: $1000 flex
We’re looking for a Senior AI Engineer to sit at the intersection of platform and product — building real-world agentic experiences while shaping the platform that powers them.
This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys shipping agents end-to-end, while also improving the underlying platform to make it easier for other engineers to build with AI.
What you’ll be doing:
Tech & Experience:
Please apply via SEEK.
Due to volumes of applications, we can't accept phone calls or enquiries for this role. Simply apply if you're interested and we will contact you if you're a match.
Melbourne | Hybrid | 3 office days
Contract: 6months+
Daily Rate: $1000 flex
We’re looking for a Senior AI Engineer to sit at the intersection of platform and product — building real-world agentic experiences while shaping the platform that powers them.
This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys shipping agents end-to-end, while also improving the underlying platform to make it easier for other engineers to build with AI.
What you’ll be doing:
- Design and ship full-stack agent experiences (chat UIs, streaming responses, tool visualisation)
- Build and integrate Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers into LLM workflows
- Develop secure, user-aware agents (OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, scoped tool access)
- Improve agent reliability in production through observability, tracing, and evals
- Contribute to the AI platform — making it easier for teams to adopt and scale agentic systems
- (Nice to have) Design multi-agent systems (A2A, orchestration, delegation patterns)
- Intelligent logging, monitoring, and incident management
- End-to-end Agentic workflows supporting faster issue resolution
Tech & Experience:
- Strong experience building LLM-powered agents / applications
- Frontend capability (React or similar) for building interactive AI experiences
- Strong Python engineering experience
- Experience with tooling frameworks / protocols (e.g. MCP, LangChain, custom tool schemas)
- Understanding of auth in distributed systems (OAuth2, OIDC, JWT)
- Experience with observability & evals (e.g. LangSmith, OpenTelemetry)
- Ability to operate in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
- You make progress without a playbook
- You challenge what’s not working and adapt quickly
- Exposure to AI/LLM technologies or workflow automation
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, innovation-led teams
Please apply via SEEK.
Due to volumes of applications, we can't accept phone calls or enquiries for this role. Simply apply if you're interested and we will contact you if you're a match.
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Who is hiring for the Senior AI Engineer role?
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Where is the Senior AI Engineer job located?
The Senior AI Engineer role with PRA is based in Melbourne, VIC, AU. The role is hybrid-friendly.
Is the Senior AI Engineer role remote?
Yes — the Senior AI Engineer position at PRA is hybrid. Candidates based in AU are preferred.
What does the Senior AI Engineer role pay?
PRA lists the Senior AI Engineer role at AUD 950–1,000 per month.
Is the Senior AI Engineer role full-time or contract?
This is a full time position at PRA.
What experience level is the Senior AI Engineer role?
The Senior AI Engineer position is aimed at senior-level candidates.
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