Senior AI / Machine Learning Engineers - Multiple Roles
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Summary
Blackroc is hiring a cluster of senior AI/ML engineers for Brisbane organisations (40-2,000 staff) rebuilding internal systems and tooling around AI. Work spans agentic AI (agents, MCP, tool-calling), applied ML (search, ranking, RAG, evals) and AI-first engineering with coding agents - designing, building and operating AI systems end to end in production, on-site 3-4 days a week.
Salary: Up to $200,000 +
HOW TO APPLY (read this first)Email: jason@blackroc.co with your resume as a PDF and, in the body of the email, 150 words on this:
"Tell me about the last time something you built with AI was confidently wrong in front of someone who mattered. What broke, what it cost, and what you did in the next hour."
No essay, no polish, no cover letter. Plain text, real detail. Subject line: AI Roles – [your name] – [Agents / ML / Platforms].
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THE ROLES
BLACKROC is recruiting a cluster of senior AI engineering roles for Brisbane organisations ranging from 40 to 2,000 people, each rebuilding internal systems and tooling around AI. The roles fall into three families:
- Agentic AI: production agents, MCP and tool-calling systems, LLM orchestration
- Applied AI / ML: production ML, search, ranking, RAG and evaluation pipelines
- AI-first Software Engineering: building AI-native internal platforms and tooling, and building them with agents - engineers who direct coding agents across a codebase and own what ships
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Design, build and operate AI systems in production, end to end
- Work directly with the people who use what you build
- Own evals, latency, cost and failure modes, not just the demo
- Set the standard for how AI is built and governed in businesses doing this for the first time
- Deep software engineering fundamentals: you've shipped and run production systems
- Recent hands-on work with LLMs, agents, RAG or ML in production
- You already build with coding agents day to day, and you can tell me where they're wrong
- Strong in Python or TypeScript; comfortable across AWS, Azure or GCP
- Brisbane-based, on-site 3 or 4 days a week. Fully remote isn't available for these roles; must have full working rights.
WHY NOW
The big names have done this for years. It's now hitting SMEs and the upper mid-market, where there are fewer layers, less governance and sponsorship straight from the CEO and board. Fewer people between you and the outcome, and the outcome is visible.
HOW TO APPLY
Email: jason@blackroc.co with your resume as a PDF and, in the body of the email, 150 words on this:
"Tell me about the last time something you built with AI was confidently wrong in front of someone who mattered. What broke, what it cost, and what you did in the next hour."
No essay, no polish, no cover letter. Plain text, real detail. Subject line: AI Roles – [your name] – [Agents / ML / Platforms].
PDF Resume to jason@blackroc.co - Thank you.