Summary
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A hybrid AI Solutions Engineer contract focused on moving practical AI initiatives from intake and proof of concept into production. You will build AI agents and retrieval-grounded assistants, develop connectors and multi-step workflows, integrate approved productivity platforms, and establish retrieval, indexing and grounding strategies. The position emphasizes solution engineering and assurance rather than foundation-model research.
Highlights
12-month hybrid AI engineering contract with possible extensions, focused on taking AI solutions from concept through proof of concept and into supportable production. The role emphasizes hands-on integration, automation, retrieval-grounded assistants, and solution assurance.
Description
📍 Location: Brisbane City - Hybrid
📅 Contract: 12 months + possible extension options
🏛️ Client: State Government Contract
Bridge IT is seeking an experienced AI Solutions Engineer to support a Queensland Governemnt Department leading the adoption of artificial intelligence.
This is a hands-on technical role focused on taking AI ideas from intake through proof of concept to a supportable production handover.
The role is weighted towards solution engineering, integration and assurance, rather than foundation model development.
Key Responsibilities
Design, build and release AI agents and retrieval-grounded assistants on approved platforms.Build, test and release agents using Copilot Studio, SharePoint agents, Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility and Power Platform.Develop connectors, multi-step orchestration and human handoff workflows.Build retrieval-grounded solutions across departmental content.Define source selection, chunking and indexing strategy, retrieval tuning and grounding controls.Take proofs of concept into a supportable production state with ownership, monitoring, failure modes, cost profile and support model.Integrate AI capability into departmental systems and data sources through APIs, connectors and managed data flows.Design identity, permission and data-protection controls, including least privilege, permission inheritance, sensitivity labelling and oversharing controls.Define and run AI solution evaluation, including test sets, accuracy, groundedness, hallucination, prompt-injection testing and release gates.Author technical assurance artefacts, including FAIRA / FAIRA Lite, information security and privacy assessments, architecture and data-flow documentation.Assess third-party AI tools and provide technical input to vendor discussions.Support schools and delivery partners through reference implementations, reusable patterns, guidance and workshops.
To be successful, you will have:
Demonstrated delivery of LLM-based solutions into pilot or production in an enterprise or government environment.Experience delivering at least one multi-step agent or retrieval-grounded assistant used by real users.Practical build experience across Copilot Studio, Power Platform and Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility.Experience with SharePoint or Graph connectors, environment configuration and data loss prevention.Strong retrieval architecture experience, including embeddings, vector and hybrid search and chunking strategy.Ability to diagnose and fix poor retrieval quality.Identity and permission design experience using Microsoft Entra ID.Working knowledge of Purview sensitivity labelling and data loss prevention as they apply to AI exposure.Experience evaluating AI systems, including hallucination testing, prompt-injection testing, measurable success criteria and release gates.
Highly Desirable
Experience across some of the following would be highly regarded:
Python for integration, orchestration, automation and evaluation tooling.Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search.Source control and release automation using Azure DevOps or GitHub.Authorship of technical assurance evidence that has passed formal review.Security assessments, privacy assessments or architecture submissions.Deployment of open-weight or quantised models on self-hosted or isolated infrastructure.FAIRA, IS18, QGEA AI governance policy, business impact levels or Safer Technologies 4 Schools.School, child-facing, government or regulated environments.Relevant Microsoft certifications across AI, Power Platform, security or identity.
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