Senior Ai Engineer

About Ampol    

At Ampol, we believe in the Power of Us - the extraordinary power of people to connect, act, and make a difference.  

As a leading energy company operating across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and from the United States, our work spans fuel supply, energy solutions, convenience retail, infrastructure, trading and shipping. Every role at Ampol plays a part in something bigger - powering progress for our customers, communities, and people.  

Your career here is yours to shape. We back our people with real opportunities, the tools to grow, and a culture that rewards ownership and initiative. Whether you’re deepening your expertise or taking on something new, we’ll support you to power a career that works for you.  

We’re building a workplace where everyone feels welcome, respected, and valued - because when people are free to be themselves, powerful things happen 

Tech, Digital & Data @ Ampol   

Technology, Digital and Data at Ampol are dedicated to empowering our business through technology-enabled differentiation, strengthening our foundations to build sustainable value for the future. Our team thrives on the challenge of innovation—dreaming up big ideas, questioning the norm, and tackling complex problems. Together, we are shaping a future that not only meets the needs of today but anticipates the demands of tomorrow.   

Our approach is anchored in data-driven decision-making and advanced technology integration, allowing us to create seamless and personalized customer experiences that truly resonate. By prioritizing value-based decisions and outcomes, we ensure that TDD drives meaningful impact and measurable outcomes for the Ampol Group, leaving a lasting impact on our business and our customers.  

About the role: 
 

You will design, build, and operate the agentic engineering pipelines that connect AI agents to our software delivery lifecycle. This means wiring agent harnesses - whether IDE-embedded copilots, CLI-driven coding agents, or custom orchestration runtimes - into CI/CD workflows, from automated brief decomposition and code generation through to PR review, QA gate execution, and deployment. 

You will own the orchestration layer: how agents are dispatched across foundation models (Claude, GPT, Gemini, open-weight alternatives), how work items flow through stages, how governance guardrails are enforced, and how delivery quality is measured. The role sits at the intersection of platform engineering and AI enablement — you are not building the models, you are building the infrastructure that makes them deliver production-grade software — and then ensuring that infrastructure is adopted and scaled across teams. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Define agent personas, tool boundaries, and typed interfaces between agents and internal systems 
• Build automated QA environments and feedback loops that feed delivery data back into agent context 
• Hold agent output to the same engineering rigour as human output — linting, type checking, security scanning, regression testing 
• Ensure every boundary is typed, every error surfaced, and every unevaluatable gate blocks by default 
• Codify reusable agent definitions, engineering standards, pipeline templates, and MCP modules for org-wide adoption 
• Mentor engineers at all levels in agentic engineering and modern SDLC practices 
• Pair with teams to embed agentic workflows and build end-to-end delivery ownership 
• Run uplift sessions, communities of practice, and retrospectives 
• Champion engineering standards and governance that enable speed without breaking trust 
• Measure success by the capability teams retain, not just what's shipped 

Qualifications & Experience 

• Background as a full-stack, cloud-native developer. Ideally you’ve built and shipped systems end to end across the full stack (.Net, React/Node/TypeScript) 
• TypeScript, .NET, and React fluency - strict typing, typed boundaries, no shortcuts. You understand why an untyped API boundary between an agent and a database is a latent defect 
• PaaS and serverless compute (Azure Functions, App Service, Container Apps), containerised workloads, infrastructure-as-code (Bicep or Terraform), and CI/CD pipeline design (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) 
• Experience with at least one agentic framework (CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, Spec Kit, or native tool-use loops via any of the recognised harnesses and foundation models) 
• Proven ability to lead, influence, and mentor. You've uplifted end-to-end capability in teams, not just code. You’ve coached engineers across experience levels, championed engineering practices, and left teams stronger than you found them 
   

Nice to have:  

• Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) and agent tool-use patterns 
• Prompt, context, and spec engineering for code generation and autonomous task execution 
• Observability tooling: structured logging, tracing, cost tracking across agent runs 
• Experience establishing engineering communities of practice or internal developer platforms 

Benefits  

• Our total remuneration is competitive. This is across base salary, a performance incentive, employee share offers and a 25% discount on Fuel for two privately used cars! 
• We are flexible.  Many of our teams have embraced hybrid work, balancing time spent remote working, with time spent at an office to connect and work together where it adds value. 
• We value recognition.  We have an internal recognition platform amplifying the achievements of those who do great work and demonstrate our capabilities and values. 
• Career development and learning opportunities including LinkedIn Learning and other tailored training solutions. 
• BabyCare Package - financial and flexible support for parents transitioning back to work. 
• Need some wheels? Novated Lease options are available. 
• Invest in your future with the Employee Share Scheme 
• Access to Ampol's Benefits & Recognition platform providing you access to retail discounts and cashbacks at over 500+ retailers in Australia that assist with everyday living expenses 
• Care for your Community. Spend one paid day a year volunteering with one of our Ampol Foundation partners.   

Want to take your career to the next level? Apply today.  

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