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
Senior AI Engineer - Intelligence & Protection
Financial Crime Domain Experience Sought Sydney or Melbourne Based / Hybrid Working Own complex, evidence-led AI solutions where safety, traceability & human authority matter. Opportunity Knocks Join AI Services as a…
Lead AI Engineer - Intelligence & Protection
Build intelligence that hits hard on financial crime Sydney or Melbourne Based / Hybrid Working Time to make real impact and protect our customers! Join AI Services as the hands-on technical leader for a major…
AI / LLM product engineer
Salary: $150,000 – $180,000 per year AI Product Engineer — Small Models & Applied AI Melbourne - Mon, Wed & Thu in office SuperCoders is recruiting an AI Product Engineer for a hands-on applied AI role. The work is…
AI Engineer
Senior AI engineer in Sydney/Melbourne building an LLM-based agentic layer on top of GitLab SAST/SCA security scanning for a telco programme: pulling findings via API/webhooks, scoring false positives, and drafting remediation with human-in-the-loop guardrails using OpenAI/Anthropic-class LLM APIs.
AI Automation Engineer
Hands-on AI & automation specialist hired into an established Australian construction business in Sydney, acting as internal SME to identify AI/automation opportunities and build production solutions in the Microsoft ecosystem: Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI, Fabric, Dataverse, M365 and Copilot.
Staff AI Engineer - Melbourne - $240,000 Gain Production Enterprise Scale AI
Staff AI Engineer Melbourne - $240,000 Gain Production Enterprise Scale AI Generative and Agentic Forefront of AI Employer of choice Morgan Consulting are partnering with a highly respected, data driven organisation…
Lead Applied AI engineer
Senior hands-on Lead Applied AI Engineer at Fetch (pet insurance & pet health app, Sydney, hybrid) who owns the company's pet-health intelligence layer: choosing and building LLM systems, evals, fine-tuning/RAG, and multimodal understanding of health records, then shipping these capabilities into real products alongside vets and engineers.
Azure AI Engineer
Azure AI Engineer Are you an AI Engineer who loves building rather than talking about building? We're partnering with a major organisation in the Energy sector embarking on a significant AI transformation program that…

Senior Technical Program Manager, Applied AI
Lead AI data pipelines and benchmark programs for LILT’s applied-AI platform, architecting high-volume, multi-modal datasets for LLMs and multimodal models while ensuring quality and alignment with research partners.
Principal AI Engineer and Technical Lead
A hands-on principal role owning the architecture and end-to-end delivery of AI/ML systems — propensity and uplift models, forecasting, and optimisation — for a gaming-sector client. Leads a pod of ML/data engineers, builds production pipelines on GCP/BigQuery with Python and SQL, and acts as the client-facing technical lead.
Senior Data & AI Engineer - Build Cloud Data Platforms
Slalom is seeking experienced data engineers to deliver cutting-edge solutions on cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and GCP. With a focus on collaboration and minimal oversight, you'll work in a dynamic team…
Generative AI Intern
Generative AI intern position at Teletrac Navman (a Vontier company) in Sydney, Australia, whose connected mobility platform provides cloud-based fleet and asset management solutions leveraging AI for operational insight. The posting describes only the company and does not detail day-to-day intern duties.





Applied AI Architect
Pre-sales AI architect in Tokyo advising large enterprises on integrating Anthropic’s Claude LLM into their stacks, from discovery through deployment, while ensuring safety and reliability.
Applied AI Engineering Lead
Firmable is the market-leading B2B sales intelligence platform in Asia Pacific, backed by leading investors, growing 2,000+ customers strong and growing in the US. We build one of the richest datasets about businesses…
AI Developer
Job description: About the Role We are looking for a Customer Service Representative (CSR) to provide professional and reliable support to customers across different industries. The ideal candidate has experience in…
AI Engineer - Australia (Remote)
Overview: One of our clients is building a new team and looking for 7 highly skilled and motivated AI Engineers globally to join their dynamic team. As an AI Engineer, you will be pivotal in designing, developing, and…
AI & Automation lead
Location: Australia (Baseline Security Clearance required AGSVA) Contract Duration: 12+ months About the Role Were looking for an AI & Automation Lead to drive intelligent automation across a large-scale managed…
Senior Data & AI Engineer, Cloud Data Platforms
Designs and builds cloud data platforms on AWS, Azure, and GCP using SQL, Python, and ETL best practices for enterprise clients.