Senior AI Engineer & Innovation Lead (Production AI)

News Corp Australia; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Access to News Corp publications and品牌

Perks & discounts

Health & wellbeing programs

Time off options

Financial wellbeing support

Job summary

News Corp Australia is seeking a Senior AI Engineer (Innovation & Squad Lead) to design and deploy enterprise AI applications while leading sub-squads in an agile delivery model. You will collaborate with senior business stakeholders, co-own production AI systems, and drive platform health and CI/CD standards.

The role blends technical architecture, leadership, and stakeholder engagement to scale AI capabilities across News Corp Australia’s operations, with a hybrid work environment and a focus

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on experience in AI/Software/Data engineering with production applications.
• Experience leading agile delivery and squads.
• Proficient Python, FastAPI, LangChain/LlamaIndex, SQL.
• Experience with vector databases: Pinecone, Qdrant, Chroma.
• Cloud & MLOps: GCP/AWS/Azure, Docker, CI/CD, testing frameworks.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and ability to translate complex ideas.

Responsibilities

• Production AI Development & Architecture: design, build, and deploy production-grade AI applications, RAG pipelines, API services, and LLM integrations.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Innovation: partner with business leads to identify high-value automation opportunities and articulate AI concepts to non-technical partners.
• Technical Leadership & Agile Delivery: lead agile ceremonies, break down stories, conduct code reviews, unblock blockers, and mentor sub-squads.
• Continuity & Platform Health: co-own production AI applications with the Senior Data Scientist and engineering team to ensure reliability and CI/CD health.

Skills

Python (Advanced)

SQL

Leadership & Stakeholder Mgmt

Agile delivery

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

LangChain/LlamaIndex

FastAPI

Pinecone

Qdrant

Chroma

GCP/AWS/Azure

Docker

CI/CD

Job description

News Corp Australia is seeking a Senior AI Engineer (Innovation & Squad Lead) to design and deploy enterprise AI applications while leading sub-squads in an agile delivery model. You will collaborate with senior business stakeholders, co-own production AI systems, and drive platform health and CI/CD standards.

The role blends technical architecture, leadership, and stakeholder engagement to scale AI capabilities across News Corp Australia’s operations, with a hybrid work environment and a focus