# Principal Engineer

Principal AI Architect / Agentic AI Engineer Australia (Sydney) | Contract / Permanent Are you passionate about building the next generation of AI-powered experiences? We are looking for a Principal AI Architect / Agentic AI Engineer to lead the design and development of enterprise-scale conversational and agentic AI solutions. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader who combines strong software engineering fundamentals with deep expertise in AI orchestration, LLM applications, and conversational platforms. What You'll Do Design and architect Agentic AI and Conversational AI solutions for enterprise use cases. Build intelligent AI agents with orchestration, tool integrations, decision-making workflows, and human-in-the-loop escalation. Develop and optimize LLM-powered applications leveraging RAG, retrieval systems, and knowledge bases. Lead engineering design, architecture reviews, and technical delivery across AI initiatives. Collaborate with business, product, and engineering teams to deliver scalable and secure AI solutions. Define best practices for AI governance, evaluation, observability, and responsible AI. Must-Have Skills Experience designing and building AI, Ag

- **Id**: 3759085
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/synechron-principal-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Sydney, Australia
- **Countries**: AU
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T17:58:56Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T05:11:21Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3395
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible schedule
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Financial Software & Embedded Finance, IT Consulting & Digital Transformation, Cloud Consulting & Migration, Data Engineering & Migration Services

## Company

- **Id**: 5306
- **Name**: Synechron
- **Domain**: synechron.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/synechron>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 23
- **Ghost share**: 0.043
- **Stale share**: 0.174
- **Repost share**: 0.174
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 21
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Human-in-the-Loop** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **Copilot** — Optional: yes
- **Copilot Studio** — Optional: yes
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: yes
- **OpenAI** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T17:58:56Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.897
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 21
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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