Senior AI Data Scientist

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Cevo is hiring a Senior AI Data Scientist to design, build and deploy production-grade AI solutions across financial services, energy and government, onsite in Sydney. You’ll partner with enterprise clients to move AI initiatives from concept to production, delivering secure, governed and explainable systems that drive measurable value. The role blends strategy, architecture, hands-on development and deployment, with exposure to GenAI, RAG pipelines, multi-agent frameworks and AWS Bedrock and SageMaker, all under a strong emphasis on observability, governance and regulatory alignment. Requirements include 5-8 years in data science or ML, 2+ years GenAI, production deployment, and strong Python and SQL plus client-facing communication. Tips: tailor your CV to show outcomes, governance and multi-industry impact, demonstrate mentoring and collaboration, and highlight local rights and the benefits package.

About the Opportunity

Cevo is looking for a Senior AI Data Scientist who can design, build and deploy production-grade AI solutions across multiple industries — including financial services, energy, and government.

You’ll work directly with enterprise clients to take AI initiatives from concept to production, delivering systems that are secure, governed, explainable and value‑driven.

If you enjoy moving between strategy, architecture, hands‑on development and deployment — and want exposure to a wide range of problems, industries and technologies — this role offers that variety every day.

Senior AI Data Scientist

Cevo helps organisations build the capability for continuous evolution, turning transformation from a one-off program into a lasting ability to adapt, innovate and deliver better outcomes. As an Australian-owned AWS Premier Consulting Partner, we design and deliver modern cloud platforms, unlock data for insight and apply AI where it creates real value, while empowering teams so capability and impact extend well beyond each engagement. With onshore teams across Australia, we’ve partnered with more than 200 organisations across start-ups, commercial, enterprise and government.

About the Opportunity

Cevo is looking for a Senior AI Data Scientist who can design, build and deploy production-grade AI solutions across multiple industries including financial services, energy, and government.

You’ll work directly with enterprise clients to take AI initiatives from concept to production, delivering systems that are secure, governed, explainable and value‑driven.

If you enjoy moving between strategy, architecture, hands‑on development and deployment and want exposure to a wide range of problems, industries and technologies, this role offers that variety every day.

What You’ll Do

1. Agentic & Generative AI System Design

• Design RAG pipelines using embedding models and vector databases
• Build multi-agent systems with orchestration frameworks
• Create LLM-powered assistants integrated into enterprise workflows
• Develop evaluation frameworks for hallucination risk and reasoning quality
• Build prompt frameworks, tool-calling logic, and structured response pipelines

2. AWS-Native AI Development

• Work with Amazon Bedrock (models, guardrails, agents)
• Use Amazon SageMaker (training, fine-tuning, endpoints, pipelines)
• Build embedding pipelines and vector retrieval services
• Implement monitoring & lifecycle management
• Contribute to reusable accelerators and internal tooling

3. AI/MLOps, FinOps & Observability

• Model, prompt and embedding performance monitoring
• Drift detection and audit trails
• Telemetry for LLM prompts and responses
• Cost and latency optimisation
• Documentation, reproducibility and versioning

4. Responsible & Governed AI

• Embed explainability and transparency
• Conduct bias and fairness testing
• Design human‑in‑the‑loop controls
• Implement guardrails and content filtering
• Align with APRA, ASIC, CPS 230/234 regulatory standards

5. Stakeholder & Client Collaboration

• Define value and success metrics with product teams
• Present complex AI outputs in executive-ready language
• Mentor junior team members
• Work with cloud and security architecture teams

Required Experience

• 5–8+ years Data Science or ML
• 2+ years GenAI (LLMs, RAG, agents, tuning, evaluation)
• Demonstrated ability to deliver production-grade AI systems
• Strong Python and SQL
• Experience deploying models into production
• Understanding of APIs and AI services
• Strong communication and client-facing skills

Highly Desirable

• Bedrock Agents
• SageMaker Pipelines
• Vector DBs
• Graph RAG
• Agent orchestration
• Regulated industry experience
• Model risk management experience
• Experience building AI platforms or assistants

Life at Cevo

Our people are at the heart of Cevo. We’re a passionate, curious team with deep consulting expertise, working together to help organisations across Australia continuously evolve. We value collaboration, knowledge-sharing and people are curious, take ownership and care deeply about the impact of their work for customers, colleagues and the wider community.

Benefits and ways of working

• $2,500 annual technology allowance to choose the tools and setup that work best for you.
• Strong learning and development culture, incl $2,000 per year for professional courses and two paid days off to attend courses and exams.
• Support of the Cevo Hive Mind – a collaborative team that helps each other succeed.
• We reward and recognise achievements and contributions.
• An exciting start-up vibe, with enterprise-level projects and customers.

Additional information

• We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applications, particularly from underrepresented groups.
• At this stage, we can only consider candidates with unrestricted local working rights.
• We don’t require assistance from recruitment agencies.