Technical Lead - AI Specialist / Automation Engineer

At Aristocrat, we're on a mission to bring happiness to life through the power of play. We believe our innovative and inclusive culture drives our success. We're committed to making a positive impact in the gaming industry. As a Technical Lead - AI Specialist / Automation Engineer, you'll have the chance to develop the future of our AI-based tools and platforms. You will make a significant impact within our engineering, creative, and quality assurance teams. This is an outstanding opportunity for someone passionate about using modern technologies to improve our workflows and deliver world-class gaming experiences. Join our ambitious team and help us continue to raise the standard in responsible gameplay and sustainability!

What You'll Do

• Cross-Functional AI Tooling: Partner with Dev, Creative, and QA leads to identify operational bottlenecks and engineer tailored AI solutions.
• Build and prioritize custom graphics tools to capture and multiply both static and animated art assets. These tools ensure they closely match our studio's outstanding art style.
• Architecture & Development: Build, test, and deploy internal AI applications, custom web portals, and Slack/Teams bots using modern LLM APIs.
• Workflow Automation: Build end-to-end automated pipelines connecting software systems like Jira, GitHub, and CMS using orchestration frameworks.
• Prompt Engineering & Fine-Tuning: Develop, evaluate, and optimize complex system prompts and workflows for high-quality outputs.
• Evaluation & Maintenance: Monitor tool performance, manage API cost optimization, mitigate model hallucination, and ensure strict data privacy and security compliance.

Domain-Specific Impact Areas

• For Dev & Math Teams: Automate tasks such as summarizing technical documentation, generating boilerplate code, and AI-assisted code reviews. Develop specialized AI tools to assist with complex math tooling and game balancing.
• For Creative Teams: Build asset-generation pipelines, automated game rules generation, and tools to generate themes that help Artists/Animators scale content securely.
• For QA Teams: Build agents that parse acceptance criteria to generate comprehensive test cases, automate synthetic test data generation, generate submission documents, and categorize bug reports.

What We're Looking For

• Experience: 5+ years in software engineering, with at least 1.5+ years of hands-on experience building production-grade AI/LLM applications.
• Specialized Expertise: Strong experience with art and animation pipelines is highly favorable.
• Programming: Proficiency in Python or TypeScript/Node.js.
• AI Ecosystem: Deep familiarity with LLM APIs, orchestration frameworks, and Vector Databases.
• Integrations: Proven track record of working with REST APIs, webhooks, and SDKs for various platforms like GitHub, Jira, Figma, Adobe, Slack, and Teams.

Soft Skills & Approach

• Product Approach: Ability to interview internal users, translate their difficulties into technical requirements, and build intuitive UX/UI.
• Ambiguity Champion: Comfortable working in a rapidly shifting AI landscape, evaluating new frameworks, and picking the right tool for the job.

Qualification

• Education: Computer Science Education (B.Tech/BE/MCA).

This job description may have been reviewed and enhanced using AI-assisted tools to improve clarity, consistency, and inclusivity. All final content, role requirements and hiring decisions remain subject to human review and approval by Aristocrat.

Compensation Philosophy

We offer a comprehensive pay and benefits package designed to stay competitive in the market, support your wellbeing, and recognise your contribution to our success. Our approach is underpinned by a pay-for-performance belief in rewarding individual impact. Your specific compensation package will be determined by factors such as your skills, experience, qualifications, and location.

Depending on your role and location, you may be eligible for annual bonuses and incentives, health and wellbeing benefits, paid time off, retirement plans, insurance coverage, and other local or statutory benefits.

Specific details about compensation and benefits for this position will be discussed during the recruitment process.

- 5+ years in software engineering, with at least 1.5+ years of hands-on experience building production-grade AI/LLM applications. - Strong experience with art and animation pipelines is highly favorable. - Proficiency in Python or TypeScript/Node.js. - Deep familiarity with LLM APIs, orchestration frameworks, and Vector Databases. - Proven track record of working with REST APIs, webhooks, and SDKs for various platforms like GitHub, Jira, Figma, Adobe, Slack, and Teams. - Ability to interview internal users, translate difficulties into technical requirements, and build intuitive UX/UI. - Comfortable working in a rapidly shifting AI landscape, evaluating new frameworks, and picking the right tool for the job. - Computer Science Education (B.Tech/BE/MCA).