Senior AI Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer at Cevo

Department: AI and Agentic Systems

Setup: Hybrid
Location: Sydney, New South Wales
Level: senior
Posted: Sep 14, 2026

Summary from listing

Cevo is hiring a Senior AI Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with enterprise clients in financial services, energy, and government. The role combines consulting, cloud architecture, software engineering, and AI delivery, focusing on rapid discovery-to-build, production-grade agentic AI systems, Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker, model deployment, and responsible AI. Candidates need 5–8+ years of software engineering, data science, and machine learning experience, plus 2+ years of hands-on GenAI development, strong Python and SQL, and AWS AI-service experience. The position offers an annual technology allowance and professional development support, and requires unrestricted local working rights.

Required Skills

Python
SQL
Amazon Bedrock
Bedrock Agents
Model deployment
Machine learning
AWS APIs
Agentic AI
RAG pipelines
LLM-powered assistants

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 5–8+ years of software engineering, data science, and machine learning experience
2+ years of hands-on GenAI development involving LLMs, RAG, agents, and evaluation
Experience delivering production-grade AI systems end to end
Experience with Amazon Bedrock and Bedrock Agents
Experience deploying machine learning models into production
Understanding of APIs and AI services across the AWS ecosystem
Preferred Qualifications: Forward Deployed or embedded consulting or solutions engineering experience
SageMaker Pipelines experience
Vector databases and Graph RAG experience
Agent orchestration frameworks experience
Regulated industry experience in financial services, energy, or government
Model risk management experience
Experience building AI platforms, assistants, or internal tooling