Associate ML Engineer — Personalization (Hybrid)

REA Group; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid and flexible working

Flexible leave options

Parental leave

Volunteer & community programs

Hackdays

Job summary

REA Group is seeking an Associate Machine Learning Engineer to join the AI Experience team in our Richmond-based office. You will help build intelligent features for personalised property discovery, developing recommender systems and decision models that power REA’s web and app experiences.

You’ll work alongside senior ML engineers and data scientists on model training, evaluation and deployment, while contributing to scalable AI pipelines and production-ready solutions used by millions of users

Qualifications

• A degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field.
• Some hands-on experience with machine learning, data science or software development projects.
• Familiarity with Python and ML libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn or PyTorch.
• Understanding of ML concepts such as regression, classification, or recommender systems.
• Interest in applying ML to real-world problems like personalised recommendations or user decision models.
• Good communication skills and a willingness to learn and collaborate with others.
• Curiosity, problem-solving mindset and enthusiasm for AI technologies

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and development of machine learning solutions for REA.
• Apply new AI/ML technologies and techniques in products used by over 12 million users.
• Build and maintain recommendation and prediction models using techniques like deep learning, collaborative filtering, regression and decision trees.
• Help develop and deploy ML pipelines for both batch and real-time use cases.
• Work with cloud-based tools and frameworks such as Python, Docker, and GCP or AWS.
• Participate in model evaluation and monitoring.
• Collaborate with senior machine learning engineers and data scientists to take ideas from prototype to production.
• Work closely with product teams to support AI-powered product features.
• Continue to learn and grow your ML skills with hands‑on experience and mentoring.

Skills

Hands-on ML experience

Python programming

ML libraries (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-le

Education

Bachelor's or higher in Computer Science/Data Science/Math/Engineering

Tools

Docker

GCP

AWS

Job description

REA Group is seeking an Associate Machine Learning Engineer to join the AI Experience team in our Richmond-based office. You will help build intelligent features for personalised property discovery, developing recommender systems and decision models that power REA’s web and app experiences.

You’ll work alongside senior ML engineers and data scientists on model training, evaluation and deployment, while contributing to scalable AI pipelines and production-ready solutions used by millions of users