Senior/Tech Lead - AI Development

Summary

Join Datacom's Digital Engineering team and contribute to the company's significant AI uplift in the ANZ market. This role involves designing, developing, and utilizing cutting-edge AI models to address complex business challenges. As a Senior/Tech Lead Developer, you will work on innovative AI-driven software solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams. Passion for AI development and a strong software background are essential. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on a global scale. Datacom offers a dynamic and agile work environment with various perks.

Requirements

• 7+ years professional software development (Python and Typescript preferred) with production ML/AI experience
• Demonstrated delivery of at least one generative-AI solution in production (chatbot, summariser, code assistant, etc.)
• Deep familiarity with transformers and orchestration stacks such as LangChain v0.2+, LlamaIndex or Semantic Kernel
• Practical experience deploying or fine-tuning models on Azure OpenAI / AI Foundry or AWS Bedrock / SageMaker
• Hands-on with RAG patterns, vector databases and evaluation metrics (BLEU, ROUGE-L, GPTScore)
• Cloud-native engineering skills: Docker, Kubernetes (AKS/EKS), infra-as-code and automated testing

Responsibilities

• Develop innovative AI-driven software solutions
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and utilize the latest AI Models
• Address complex business challenges using AI

Preferred Qualifications

• Agent frameworks (AutoGen 0.2/0.4, CrewAI) and tool-using agents
• Multimodal model workflows (image-text with GPT-4o, Gpt4o real time API)
• Experience with embedding models
• Workspace automation using agentic frameworks
• Advanced RAG variants – familiarity with LongRAG, Self-RAG, GraphRAG and the trade-offs between leading vector stores (Pinecone, Qdrant, FAISS, Azure AI Search)
• Multimodal & streaming LLMs – delivering real-time GPT-4o or Gemini 2 Ultra use-cases (image to text or speech) and cross-modal embeddings

Benefits

• Remote working
• Flexi-hours
• Professional development courses