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Opus Recruitment Solutions

Senior Agentic Software Engineer

Information & Communication Technology / Engineering - Software

Posted 21/06/2026
Closes 05/07/2026

East Melbourne, 3002, Melbourne, Victoria

Full time

Not specified

Senior Agentic Software Engineer

LLM, GenAI, Python

$180,000 - $250,000 Plus Super

Partnered with 1 of the worlds leading AI firms – who have gone from 30 to 150 inside of 2 years –spearheaded by their cutting edge AI solutions and AI partnerships.

The company works with ambitious enterprise clients to design, build, and deploy AI applications that solve complex operational and commercial problems. This includes LLM-powered workflows, agentic systems, RAG applications, automation tools, and AI products that are embedded into how businesses actually operate.

The Role

  • Designing and building LLM-powered applications, including RAG systems, agentic workflows, and AI automation tools using Python and modern AI engineering tooling.

  • Building backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and integration layers that allow AI systems to operate reliably in production.

  • Translating complex business problems into scalable AI solutions that create measurable impact.

  • Working directly with technical and non-technical client stakeholders to understand requirements, challenge assumptions, and guide AI adoption.

  • Own technical solution design from discovery through to deployment and iteration.

Your Profile

  • Strong hands-on engineering experience across backend software engineering, ML engineering, data science, or applied AI.

  • Minimum 4-5 years of hands-on engineering experience across backend software engineering, ML engineering, data science, or applied AI is required.

  • Minimum 3-4 years of Python backend engineering experience is required.

  • Experience building and shipping production systems used by real users.

  • Minimum 2+ years of hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG architectures, agents, tool-calling, or GenAI applications is required.

  • Experience working with cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar.

  • Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where you need to figure things out quickly.

  • A genuine interest in applied AI and how it can change how organisations work.


Senior Agentic Software Engineer

LLM, GenAI, Python

$180,000 - $250,000 Plus Super

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