Engineering Manager - Residential ML Architect

Rea Group; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Birthday leave

Purchased leave

Job summary

REA Group is seeking an Engineering Manager - AI to build REA’s residential ML capability from the ground up and lead a distributed team across tribes. You’ll set direction, establish standards and collaborate with product managers, designers and offshore colleagues.

The role focuses on delivering high-quality ML solutions for residential use cases while upholding engineering excellence, governance and scalable delivery in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of AI and ML with ability to discuss data, models and production trade-offs.
• Experience leading software, data or ML teams to deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Technical fluency to review code and identify design flaws.
• Experience with global, offshore or distributed teams.
• Strong stakeholder management across multiple product tribes.
• Judgement to assess whether an ML or data science approach is right for a problem.
• Experience with modern software practices, cloud architecture, data platforms or ML engineering workflows.
• Ability to manage ambiguity and adapt to changing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Establish and lead a dedicated ML team for residential, shaping its mission, practices, delivery approach and engineering standards.
• Coordinate work across residential tribes, adapting to changing priorities, product managers, designers and collaborators as initiatives evolve.
• Set clear expectations for the distributed contractor team and work with product stakeholders to negotiate timelines, capacity and delivery outcomes.
• Provide technical guidance across ML, data science and data engineering, including reviewing code and identifying design, architecture or solution risks.
• Help teams decide when an ML solution is appropriate and when a simpler approach suffices.
• Guide the design and delivery of AI/ML products and data capabilities across residential use cases.
• Maintain high standards across software engineering quality, ML evaluation, operational excellence, system health, data governance and engineering compliance.
• Support the development of AI-enabled product capabilities using NLP, LLMs, semantic search and other modern ML approaches.
• Partner with the AI Enrichment team and other AI specialists to share capability and expertise.

Skills

AI/ML fundamentals

Team leadership

Code review

Distributed teams

Stakeholder mgmt

ML engineering

Cloud architecture

Data platforms

Ambiguity management

Job description

REA Group is seeking an Engineering Manager - AI to build REA’s residential ML capability from the ground up and lead a distributed team across tribes. You’ll set direction, establish standards and collaborate with product managers, designers and offshore colleagues.

The role focuses on delivering high-quality ML solutions for residential use cases while upholding engineering excellence, governance and scalable delivery in a hybrid work environment.