Senior AI Engineer - Build Production-Grade AI/ML Systems

Salt; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt is seeking an experienced AI Engineer for our Operations Technology team in Melbourne. You will design, build, and support AI/ML solutions that enable innovation and business performance across a global environment.

You will deliver AI/ML projects end-to-end, design scalable software with Azure AI, OpenAI, and other platforms, and optimise RAG pipelines, embeddings, and inference workflows. Collaboration with engineers, analysts, and QA is essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years' experience in machine learning, data science, or related fields.
• 1-2 years in AI/MLOps.

Responsibilities

• Deliver AI/ML projects from concept through to production.
• Design and implement scalable software solutions using Azure AI, OpenAI and other LLM platforms.
• Build and optimise RAG pipelines, embeddings, fine-tuning, and inference workflows.
• Collaborate with developers, analysts and testers to deliver reliable, secure, and maintainable applications.
• Provide proactive application support, troubleshooting, and issue resolution.
• Apply DevOps practices including CI/CD, containerisation, and automated testing.

Skills

Machine learning

Data science

AI/MLOps

Python

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics / Machine Learning / Data Science / Software Engineering

Tools

Azure AI Foundry

Azure OpenAI

Cognitive Search

ML

Functions

OpenAI

Hugging Face

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Vector search tools

Job description

Salt is seeking an experienced AI Engineer for our Operations Technology team in Melbourne. You will design, build, and support AI/ML solutions that enable innovation and business performance across a global environment.

You will deliver AI/ML projects end-to-end, design scalable software with Azure AI, OpenAI, and other platforms, and optimise RAG pipelines, embeddings, and inference workflows. Collaboration with engineers, analysts, and QA is essential.