AI Engineering Jobs in Australia
There are 196 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, python and llm.
Salary
| Currency | Period | 25th | Median | 75th | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUD | year | A$167,500 | A$250,000 | A$325,000 | 12 |
From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.
Most requested skills
- ai 90%
- python 61%
- llm 57%
- agentic-ai 51%
- api 51%
- cloud 43%
- machine-learning 38%
- rag 38%
How the work is done
- Hybrid 80 · 41%
- Onsite 33 · 17%
- Remote 15 · 8%
Visa sponsorship offered in 41% of the 17 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 67
- Lead 26
- Principal 12
- Staff 4
- Intern 2
- Junior 2
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 20
- 11-50 employees 2
- 501-1000 employees 1
- 51-200 employees 1
Principal Data & AI Engineer - $250k package
Salary: 250000 Principal Data & AI Engineer - Sydney - $250,000 package - Snowflake - AI About the Company Our client is a well-established ASX listed Sydney financial services business with a strong focus on…
Data & AI Engineer - Build Practical AI for Business
Joins McPherson's Consumer Products as a Data & AI Engineer, building data pipelines, dashboards and integrations and embedding practical AI and automation into business workflows. Core work centers on Python and SQL with strong data governance practices.
Hybrid GCP Data & AI Engineer — BigQuery & DataOps
Senior Data Platform Engineer building and running a Google Cloud data platform end-to-end: batch and streaming pipelines, BigQuery models optimized for performance and cost, and ML/AI data foundations, plus Terraform IaC, networking, security, and CI/CD. Permanent hybrid role with 3 days per week on site in Australia.
Google Data & Ai Engineer
Build and run a major Australian enterprise's Google Cloud data platform end to end: batch and streaming pipelines (Dataflow, Composer, Pub/Sub) landing in BigQuery, plus the Terraform, networking and CI/CD that keep it sound. Hybrid role in Sydney, three days a week on site.
Senior AI Engineer (Forward Deployed)
Salary: $918.00 per day plus super Join a high-impact team driving AI adoption across enterprise engineering squads. We're looking for a hands-on Senior AI Engineer with deep experience building and deploying AI…
AI engineer - immediate start
AI engineer to take ownership of production engineering at Aspire, an early-stage startup whose voice and chat AI serves Australian local government councils. Day to day: debugging production defects, shipping code, improving architecture, testing, and observability across LLM conversational systems combined with deterministic business logic. Must be based in Australia; Brisbane preferred.
Senior AI Engineer
Recruited via Iterate for an unnamed Australian company: a Senior AI Engineer in Melbourne (hybrid, 3 days in office) who designs and ships enterprise-scale generative and agentic AI solutions end-to-end — LLM apps using RAG, prompt engineering and fine-tuning, plus secure APIs/microservices — on a fullstack base of React/TypeScript and an open backend (.NET/Java/Kotlin).
AI Product Engineer
Builds and ships LLM and agentic product features end to end on top of Neara's physics-based digital twin platform for electricity utilities — retrieval, tool use, evaluations, guardrails and human-in-the-loop checks so AI answers about grid infrastructure are traceable and defensible. Sydney-based strong software engineer first.
Senior/Principal/Staff AI Software Engineer
Senior/Principal/Staff AI Software Engineer at DeployCo in Sydney, building scalable, production-grade Generative AI solutions for large enterprise clients — designing, developing and deploying AI applications with Python, LLMs (prompt engineering, fine-tuning, OpenAI API) and data-driven architectures.
Senior AI Engineer
Hands-on senior role in Perth building a large organisation's unified conversational AI assistant platform — designing core capabilities like the routing 'front door', RAG pipelines, LLM orchestration, agent registry, inference/serving, and governance, while setting engineering standards, documenting architecture, and mentoring delivery teams.
AI Engineer
Sydney-based engineer who owns AI products end to end: building LLM applications, RAG pipelines and AI agents, integrating them with APIs, databases and business systems, and running production practices like testing, monitoring, and model evaluation. Core stack is Python, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), and agent frameworks like LangGraph.
AI Product Engineer
Triskele Labs is a large-scale sovereign Australian cybersecurity provider. We deliver Managed Detection and Response (MDR), Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR), offensive security, and Governance, Risk and…
Senior AI Engineer | GenAI & LLMs | Federal Government
Contract Senior AI Engineer (12 months, extendable to 24) placed by Bitgrid with a Federal Government agency, building production GenAI/LLM apps — prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, AI agents — plus MLOps/LLMOps in Python. Onsite in Canberra or Hobart for 6 weeks, then hybrid; $130–150/hour; must be an Australian citizen able to obtain a Baseline clearance.
Senior Data & AI Engineer: Audience & Measurement (Hybrid)
Senior Data & AI Engineer at Cartology, Woolworths Group's retail media arm, building data pipelines and audience datasets on GCP (BigQuery, dbt, Airflow, Python) that power audience targeting and campaign measurement. Joins a greenfield project to drive AI-ready data practices and governance with product and measurement teams.
Senior Data and Ai Engineer
Senior Data & AI Engineer at Cartology, Woolworths Group's retail media arm, based in Sydney (hybrid). You'll build and own production data pipelines, models, and audience datasets for audience segmentation and campaign measurement using BigQuery, dbt, Airflow, and Python on GCP, while championing engineering standards and AI-assisted practices.
Principal Data & AI Engineer — Audience & Media (Hybrid)
Principal-level role in Woolworths Group's Cartology retail media arm, leading audience and measurement engineering from Surry Hills, Sydney (hybrid, 3 office days). The hire sets technical direction for data platforms, establishes AI SDLC standards, and helps stand up a Data & AI Centre of Excellence for audience and media measurement.
Lead Software & AI Engineer
Lead a four-person software team at a defence/automotive systems manufacturer in Adelaide, combining hands-on development in Python, C/C++ and Django with architecture, delivery management, and coaching. The role spans embedded software, full-stack web apps, ERP integration and practical AI/automation solutions.
Senior AI Engineer
Senior AI Engineer (Innovation & Squad Lead) at News Corp Australia who designs, builds and co-owns production-grade AI applications — RAG pipelines, LLM integrations and API services — while leading agile sub-squads and partnering with business stakeholders. Core stack: Python/FastAPI, LangChain/LlamaIndex, vector databases, and GCP/AWS/Azure with Docker and CI/CD.
AI Engineer
AI Engineer at News Corp Australia (Surry Hills, Sydney) building and maintaining production-grade AI applications, RAG pipelines, and ETL/ELT data integrations powering enterprise finance operations. Core stack: Python (FastAPI/Flask), SQL, dbt, Docker, CI/CD, vector databases, and cloud platforms, with MLOps and observability duties.