AI Engineering Jobs in Australia
There are 325 open AI Engineering jobs in Australia on freehire right now. 93 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are ai, agentic-ai and cloud.
Most requested skills
- ai 72%
- agentic-ai 38%
- cloud 33%
- python 32%
- machine-learning 30%
- llm 28%
- rag 25%
- api 24%
How the work is done
- Hybrid 51 · 16%
- Onsite 20 · 6%
- Remote 11 · 3%
Visa sponsorship offered in 42% of the 31 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 111
- Lead 28
- Principal 18
- Staff 10
- C-level 6
- Intern 3
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 53
- 51-200 employees 13
- 501-1000 employees 11
- 11-50 employees 5
- 201-500 employees 4
Senior AI Software Engineer
This role involves designing and building multi-agent AI systems and the supporting infrastructure for a med-tech company. The engineer will work with LLMs, the MCP protocol, and cloud infrastructure including EKS and Terraform while utilizing Java and React.
Senior AI Engineer (AI Innovation Office)
Designs, builds, and deploys production-grade AI systems (LLMs, RAG, agents) for Westpac’s banking platform, ensuring scalability, governance, and enterprise reliability while mentoring teams and setting AI engineering standards.
AI Engineer
Lead AI Engineer building production AI systems hands-on, designing and shipping agentic and GenAI systems using frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, RAG pipelines, and vector search.
AI Engineer
AI Engineer responsible for designing, developing, and deploying AI-driven solutions to enhance data analytics capabilities for a data-driven industry leader.
Data and AI Engineer
Build and lead Alder’s enterprise data platform and AI solutions, designing scalable pipelines, reporting frameworks, and automation to drive smarter construction and infrastructure decisions.
Data & AI Engineer (12mth FTC)
This role involves building and maintaining analytics-ready data models and applied AI solutions using GCP, BigQuery, and Dataform. The engineer will partner with stakeholders to deliver production-ready data and AI workflows, including RAG and automated decision support systems.
AI Engineer x 2 (AI Innovation Office)
Westpac is seeking AI Engineers to build and operationalize secure, production-ready AI applications, agents, and platforms within their banking environment. The role focuses on integrating LLMs, RAG, and ML models while ensuring compliance, safety, and scalability.
Principal AI Engineer
Principal AI Engineer providing technical leadership and people management across AI/ML research and engineering for Defence systems in Adelaide, spanning machine perception, autonomous systems, modelling/simulation, and trusted decision support.
Senior AI Engineer
The Senior AI Engineer designs and develops AI technology solutions to address complex government challenges while communicating technical concepts to various stakeholders. This role involves working across different agencies within the Western Australian government to improve evidence-based decision-making.
Senior AI Engineer (Risk & Payments)
Senior AI Engineer building AI agent solutions for risk management and payment processing at Airwallex, using Python, ML frameworks (PyTorch/JAX), and agentic frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex.
Automation and AI Engineer
Hands-on Automation and AI Engineer at Westfund Health Insurance building and scaling production automation and AI solutions using Microsoft Azure, Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Copilot Studio), UiPath/RPA, generative AI, and REST API integrations in an APRA-regulated environment.
AI Engineer
Design and deploy production-ready AI solutions using Azure AI Foundry and OpenAI, building agents, RAG systems, and intelligent workflows to improve logistics operations.
Applied AI Engineer | Senior Analyst | Tax
Build and deploy production AI and agentic systems—including RAG pipelines, LLM assistants, and document intelligence—to transform tax workflows, collaborating across tax and engineering teams.
Principal AI Software Engineer
Leads AI-driven software engineering at a fintech prepaid card solutions provider, setting AI coding standards, designing agent-friendly infrastructure, and architecting scalable systems while writing production code and mentoring peers.
Senior Data & AI Engineer for Real-time Trading Platform
Senior Data & AI Engineer owns the data and AI platform for trading and sportsbook products, building real-time/batch pipelines, developing ML/AI features and RAG/LLM capabilities, and shipping backend services (Go/Python/Java).
Senior AI AWS Engineer: GenAI & Real-Time Data Pipelines
Build scalable real-time data pipelines on AWS and drive AI modernization using Databricks, Bedrock, and AgentCore as part of an enterprise migration in Melbourne.
AI Software Engineer
Build scalable, production-grade enterprise AI solutions using Python, SQL, and LLMs (prompt engineering, fine-tuning, OpenAI API) for large enterprise clients.