Secure ML Researcher - Onsite 4 Days

Akkodis; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly Pay

No Payrolling Processing Fees

Upskilling Opportunities and Training

Access to Industry SMEs and Info Ses­s

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Dedicated Account Management Support

Job summary

Akkodis is hiring a Machine Learning Researcher to lead design, development and evaluation of a secure human-in-the-loop AI platform for handling potentially distressing digital material. You will drive multimodal ML across image, video, text and audio, building robust pipelines in a high-sensitivity security setting.

Responsibilities include creating explainable models, deploying AI in secure environments, and translating operational needs into practical technical outcomes while engaging

Qualifications

• Postgraduate qualification in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Software Engineering or related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience delivering machine learning solutions beyond proof-of-concept stage.
• Advanced Python development skills and hands-on PyTorch experience.
• Experience building reproducible data pipelines and deployable software solutions.
• Strong understanding of model evaluation including precision, recall, class imbalance, calibration and uncertainty.
• Experience working with sensitive or security-controlled information.
• Ability to translate complex operational requirements into practical technical outcomes.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Strong knowledge of privacy, security, responsible AI and human oversight principles.

Responsibilities

• Design multimodal ML solutions across image, video, text and audio.
• Develop classification, detection and analyst-review capabilities.
• Evaluate reliable, explainable and effective ML models.
• Build secure, reproducible ML pipelines.
• Deploy AI in secure and disconnected environments.
• Translate operational needs into technical outcomes.
• Validate and assure model performance.
• Conduct risk and adversarial testing.
• Produce technical reports and recommendations.
• Provide leadership to collaborating researchers and project stakeholders.

Skills

Python development

PyTorch

ML model evaluation

Data pipelines

Stakeholder communication

Security/privacy knowledge

Education

Postgraduate qualification in Computer Science / AI / Data Science / Software Engineering

Tools

Python

PyTorch

Job description

Akkodis is hiring a Machine Learning Researcher to lead design, development and evaluation of a secure human-in-the-loop AI platform for handling potentially distressing digital material. You will drive multimodal ML across image, video, text and audio, building robust pipelines in a high-sensitivity security setting.

Responsibilities include creating explainable models, deploying AI in secure environments, and translating operational needs into practical technical outcomes while engaging