AI Engineer, AI & Applications
Key Skills for This Role
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Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, implement and maintain end-to-end MLOps workflows: training → evaluation → registry → deployment → monitoring → retraining/retirement in dev/staging/production environments, with clear standards and ownership boundaries.
- Own the model registry and promotion lifecycle using MLflow, including stage/alias strategy, approvals, environment separation, access control, rollback readiness and integration with software release pipelines.
- Establish reproducibility and lineage across the model lifecycle, including versioned code/configuration, artifact traceability, dataset/version references and repeatable evaluation runs.
- Design, develop and implement automated model quality gates for production, including accuracy, latency, cost, safety and reliability requirements.
- Define SLOs/SLIs for all AI platform features, including training job success rate, inference latency p99, RAG retrieval accuracy, availability and cost metrics.
- Develop and maintain production monitoring dashboards to track model performance, data drift and operational health, and integrate monitoring outputs with alerting tools such as PagerDuty and Slack.
- Create on-call runbooks and triage procedures for AI service incidents and lead postmortem-driven improvements to improve software reliability and maintainability.
- Instrument AI services for debugging, including request traces, GPU metrics per model, retrieval performance and communication bottlenecks.
- Integrate evaluation frameworks, including benchmarking, RAGAS and LLM-as-judge, into CI/CD pipelines to support automated testing, deployment and release management.
Skills & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or higher qualification in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or a closely related field.
- 3 + years in MLOps, ML platform, software engineering or production engineering roles with hands-on ownership of production ML delivery pipelines.
- Deep understanding of the ML software lifecycle, including model versioning, promotion strategies, evaluation automation, governance, deployment strategies, monitoring and drift detection.
- Hands-on experience with MLflow Model Registry workflows, including stages/aliases, approvals, traceability and integration of registry actions into software release pipelines.
- Experience designing, developing and operationalising model evaluation systems, including metrics standards, orchestration, logging and reproducibility.
- Strong software engineering and production fundamentals, including metrics, logs, traces, alert design, incident response and reliability practices.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, model packaging, deployment automation and software testing, with the ability to collaborate across ML engineers, platform/SRE and application teams to turn requirements into robust workflows.
- Understanding of distributed systems, resource management and failure modes in training and inferencing environments.
- Key Competencies
- Production Ownership: comfortable owning services in production; proactive about monitoring, alerting, and preventing issues.
- Reliability Engineering: can define SLOs, error budgets, and blameless postmortem culture.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: works with ML engineers, data scientists, and platform teams; unblocks reliably.
- Incident Response: triage skills, root cause analysis, systemic thinking (not just fighting fires).
- Programmatic automation reduces toil and makes the right path with a balanced rigor with speed.
- Communication: explains complex ML/systems issues clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Location & Reporting
- Location Sydney, Australia
- Reporting to Head of AI & Applications
- Employment Basis
- Full-time
- Diversity
- At Firmus, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds who are passionate about creating a more sustainable future through innovative engineering solutions.
- Join us in our mission to revolutionize the AI industry through sustainable practices and cutting-edge engineering. Apply now to be part of shaping the future of sustainable AI infrastructure.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or higher qualification in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or a closely related field.
- 3 + years in MLOps, ML platform, software engineering or production engineering roles with hands-on ownership of production ML delivery pipelines.
- Deep understanding of the ML software lifecycle, including model versioning, promotion strategies, evaluation automation, governance, deployment strategies, monitoring and drift detection.
- Hands-on experience with MLflow Model Registry workflows, including stages/aliases, approvals, traceability and integration of registry actions into software release pipelines.
- Experience designing, developing and operationalising model evaluation systems, including metrics standards, orchestration, logging and reproducibility.
- Strong software engineering and production fundamentals, including metrics, logs, traces, alert design, incident response and reliability practices.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, model packaging, deployment automation and software testing, with the ability to collaborate across ML engineers, platform/SRE and application teams to turn requirements into robust workflows.
- Understanding of distributed systems, resource management and failure modes in training and inferencing environments.
- Key Competencies
- Production Ownership: comfortable owning services in production; proactive about monitoring, alerting, and preventing issues.
- Reliability Engineering: can define SLOs, error budgets, and blameless postmortem culture.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: works with ML engineers, data scientists, and platform teams; unblocks reliably.
- Incident Response: triage skills, root cause analysis, systemic thinking (not just fighting fires).
- Programmatic automation reduces toil and makes the right path with a balanced rigor with speed.
- Communication: explains complex ML/systems issues clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Location & Reporting
- Location Sydney, Australia
- Reporting to Head of AI & Applications
- Employment Basis
- Full-time
- Diversity
- At Firmus, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds who are passionate about creating a more sustainable future through innovative engineering solutions.
- Join us in our mission to revolutionize the AI industry through sustainable practices and cutting-edge engineering. Apply now to be part of shaping the future of sustainable AI infrastructure.
About Firmus Technologies
Firmus Electronics is a contract electronics manufacturer offering PCB assembly, box build, and testing services for industries including defense, medical devices, and telecommunications.
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