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Principal Engineer

Sydney, New South Wales💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-16 → 2026-09-29

Core

Senior technical specialist shaping enterprise AI direction, architecture, and governance, leading design of generative AI, agentic systems, and production ML solutions.

Role type

Principal Engineer (AI & Emerging Technology)

Builds

Scalable AI solutions, reference architectures, reusable engineering patterns, and governance tooling for a life insurance enterprise.

Domain

Life Insurance / Generative AI / Agentic Systems / MLOps

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Generative AI, LLM-based systems, agentic systems, MLOps/LLMOps, Python, cloud platforms (Azure), CI/CD, automated testing, observability, software engineering principles

Preferred skills

Advanced degrees, experience with AI-assisted software development workflows

Technologies

Azure, Python, containers, APIs

Responsibilities

Set technical direction and reference architectures for AI solutions; Own critical design decisions in partnership with Architecture; Provide technical assurance on high-risk designs; Work directly with delivery pods on complex engineering problems; Define and evolve engineering standards and best practices; Champion reuse of shared AI platforms and governance tooling; Identify and address technical risks including model risk, data privacy, security, and drift

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with enterprise-wide influence

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