AI Engineer

News Corp Australia; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Onsite gym at Australia offices

Access to News Corp publications and 2

Job summary

News Corp Australia is recruiting for a Backend/AI Engineer to build and scale AI systems powering our editorial products. You will own agents, retrieval pipelines, and ensure high-quality outputs as we scale, while keeping costs and latency sensible.

You will work closely with journalists and editors, contributing to a culture that blends cutting-edge AI with strong newsroom judgment, in a hybrid role across multiple offices.

Qualifications

• Must have strong Python engineering with production backend experience.
• Experience building LLM-powered applications on Gemini, OpenAI or Anthropic models.
• Experience orchestrating multi-agent frameworks and possibly Google ADK; LangGraph or similar acceptable.
• Deep knowledge of RAG: embeddings, chunking, grounding, citations.
• Ability to manage concurrency at scale: job queues, rate limits, retries.
• Cloud experience with GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud Run Jobs) and modern cloud tooling.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale the AI systems behind editorial products, including agents, retrieval, and pipelines.
• Own quality of outputs, measure performance, and keep costs and latency in check as scaling occurs.
• Collaborate directly with journalists and editors to meet high standards.

Skills

Python

LLM apps

Multi-agent orchestration

RAG depth

Concurrency

Cloud (GCP)

Engineering

Tools

Google ADK

LangGraph

Gemini

OpenAI

Anthropic

Cloud Run

Cloud Run Jobs

Job description

What's the role?

Editorial Innovation builds and supports AI capability for our newsrooms. We’re a small team working directly with journalists and editors, taking ideas from prototype to something the newsroom uses every day.

In this role, you’ll build and scale the AI systems behind our editorial products: the agents, the retrieval, and the pipelines that run them. You’ll own the quality of what those systems produce, measure it properly, and keep cost and latency sensible as we scale. You’ll work directly with journalists and editors, whose judgment sets the bar.

This role can be based at either our Southbank, VIC or Surry Hills, NSW office with 2 days per week from home.

Who are you?

• Strong Python engineer with production backend experience
• You've built LLM powered applications on Gemini, OpenAI or Anthropic models
• Multi agent orchestration and a framework. Google ADK preferred, LangGraph or similar is fine
• Real RAG depth across embeddings, chunking, grounding and citations
• Concurrency at scale, including job queues, rate limiting and retries
• Cloud experience, GCP preferred, including Cloud Run and Cloud Run Jobs
• 3+ years engineering

Nice to have

• Vertex AI, including Gemini and Agent Engines
• LLM eval and observability tooling such as Braintrust or OpenTelemetry (OTel)
• You follow the agentic and AI space closely and have a view on what's worth adopting

Why News Corp Australia

Join a culture where innovation is our operating rhythm. You’ll work on a diverse portfolio of Australia’s most loved brands and play a pivotal role in leading the technological shift in how we create commercial content. Our vibrant, hybrid work environment and dynamic, values-driven culture empowers you to push boundaries, collaborate as one unified team, and make a positive, measurable impact for all Australians.

News Extras Benefits is a commitment to our people for their valued contribution to News, our audiences, clients and communities.

Our Benefits Include

• Exclusively ours - Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family
• Perks & discounts - Exclusive offers across a range of products and services that deliver genuine cost savings and benefits
• Health & wellbeing - Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies (including an onsite gym at our Adelaide, Brisbane & Sydney offices)
• Time off - News offers a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life: Parental leave, Birthday leave, Volunteer leave, Career break and Compassionate leave.
• Financial wellbeing - Support on making the most of your money

Benefits

In addition to our perks and benefits, employees have access to a number of initiatives and programs that support their wellbeing and professional growth, such as:

• Helping you grow - Access tailored development opportunities, including leadership programs, to cultivate your skills and support your career
• Giving back - Make a difference to our communities through volunteer opportunities and company-organised charity drives
• Workplace Inclusion and facilities – Engage with your passions through various employee-resource groups and accessibility to multi-faith quiet rooms & parents’ rooms

Who are we?

We are proud to be Australia’s most impactful media group, we’re even prouder of what we stand for: Together, we inform, advocate and inspire all Australians, for a better Australia.

With over 150 brands across news, sport and lifestyle, backed by a team of more than 5,000 dedicated people across the country, News Corp Australia is trusted by over 17 million Australians a month to provide the information and inspiration they seek across multiple digital, video, audio and print platforms.

Renowned for world-class journalism and marketing services nationally and internationally, we are passionate, creative and dynamic. We offer a fast-paced environment that encourages individuals to take control of their future and challenge themselves in ever-changing fields.

News Corp Australia is evolving in response to the expectations and challenges of the digital world in which we now live. We have an amazing opportunity to reinvent our industry and redefine the future of media in Australia. We are passionate about what we do and are proud of our heritage of world-class journalism and entrepreneurial spirit. Our environment is supportive and friendly, we encourage innovation, collaboration and creative thinking. If you thrive on being challenged and enjoy working in a fast-paced stimulating environment, come and join us on this incredible journey.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Diversity strengthens our national teams and newsroom as we seek to tell stories that represent the communities of Australia. Our people make us unique, and so we are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability or gender identity. Applicants of diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply!

We are committed to ensuring an accessible and supportive recruitment process. If you require any adjustments or accommodations at any stage, please do not hesitate to let us know here. In order for us to assist you, please ensure you include the role title you are applying for in the subject line. For more information regarding Diversity at NewsCorp Australia please visit www.newscorpaustralia.com/careers under the Diversity@News section.

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