Principal AI Engineer

9 hours ago


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Preacta Full time $200,000 - $250,000 per year

Principal AI Engineer


$200–$250k + Super + Equity


Melbourne (Hybrid)

Join one of Australia's most exciting applied AI start-ups, a team of proven founders who've built and exited a successful product before, now driving a new wave of enterprise-scale AI innovation.

They are looking for a strong engineer, a genuine problem solver who has operated in a start up environment before and understands the challenges of working in a product launch.

You'll be part of a tight-knit engineering team, building and scaling real agentic systems used by enterprise clients. This is a build-fast, ship-faster environment, where your work lands directly in production for a growing SaaS customer base.

You'll work directly with founders who live and breathe customer success, and who back innovation with real execution.

What you'll do

  • Architect and optimise large-scale, cloud-native AI systems
  • Lead development of multi-agent frameworks and RAG-based solutions
  • Build reliable, scalable data and model pipelines for production
  • Collaborate with leadership to solve customer challenges fast and ship impactful updates

What we're looking for

  • Deep Python engineering expertise
  • Full Stack engineering experience
  • Strong experience with cloud (
    GCP)
    and containerization (
    Kubernetes)
  • Hands-on experience in
    RAG architecture
    and
    agentic frameworks
  • A builder mindset you thrive in start-ups and move quickly from idea to production

Ideally you will have put these systems into production, interviews are happening immediately, with a view to start ASAP.



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