Senior AI Engineer (Mine Intelligence)

Fortescue Metals Group; Perth; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortescue Metals Group in Perth is seeking an experienced Principal AI Delivery Lead to design, build and deploy generative AI systems for mine control and operations. You will own end-to-end delivery, collaborate with SMEs and operations, and drive measurable productivity improvements across 24/7 assets.

You will lead autonomous, production-grade AI solutions, guide cross-disciplinary teams, and champion practical AI adoption in frontline workflows within a globally focused, safety-conscious

Qualifications

• Five+ years of experience designing and deploying generative AI systems, including tool calls, integration and orchestration.
• Tertiary qualifications in engineering, computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience developing production AI systems.
• Experience in multi-disciplinary teams, particularly business and technology.
• Ability to translate complex data sources and technical issues into requirements.
• Experience in data science methods for data-driven process discovery is well regarded.
• Experience in software engineering, including system architecture, API development, automated testing and production deployment, is well regarded.
• Experience in mining operations or mine control would be well regarded.

Responsibilities

• Owning the design, build, deployment and support of agentic AI systems integrating LLM reasoning, predictive models, domain focused algorithms and operational tools, across the product development lifecycle.
• Delivering on robust evaluation, testing and observability frameworks to ensure AI reasoning quality, system reliability and operational performance in production.
• Helping identify, quantify and validate efficiency and opportunities, using data from a range of sources.
• Collaborating with domain SMEs and users to shape technical requirements.
• Working closely with front-line and operational support teams to test, validate and refine models to support adoption and operational impact.
• Maintaining the backlogs for development, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to prioritise development.
• Supporting community development through technical engagement and leadership on AI engineering.

Skills

Generative AI systems

Tool calls

Orchestration

Data-driven process discovery

Software engineering

API development

Automated testing

Production deployment

Mine control experience

Education

Engineering, computer science or related field

Tools

API development

LLM tooling

Job description

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Work Location: Perth CBD. Fortescue's Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk people.

Roster: Monday to Friday

Reporting to: Principal AI Delivery Lead

Fortescue is transforming its business through Artificial Intelligence, bringing our unique culture of innovation and leading through doing to transform our asset and employee productivity. In this role you will deliver generative AI systems that embed AI at the heart of our mine control capability, with applications covering mine control context foundations, agentic workflows for decision-support and process automation, supporting measurable improvements to the productivity of our remote operations.

This role is suited to experienced individual contributors who deliver autonomously in a range of settings. It would suit strong candidates coming from a range of backgrounds, including computer science, data science or engineering. Experience in mine control and mining operations is valuable, but we will also consider strong technical candidates with experience in developing production-grade generative AI systems. Regardless of background, you will bring a strong ability to analyse operations and process performance, develop proactive and responsive decision flows for SME validation, and to design, build & deploy generative AI solutions into 24/7 operations.

You will work in a forward-deployed AI delivery team, with a focus on accelerated development of new solutions teaming across disciplines and in close partnership with operations. As part of an AI-native team, you would champion the practical use of generative AI in personal and team workflows, share effective practices and contribute to its adoption and productivity impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Owning the design, build, deployment and support of agentic AI systems integrating LLM reasoning, predictive models, domain focused algorithms and operational tools, across the product development lifecycle
• Delivering on robust evaluation, testing and observability frameworks to ensure AI reasoning quality, system reliability and operational performance in production
• Helping identify, quantify and validate efficiency and opportunities, using data from a range of sources
• Collaborating with domain SMEs and users to shape technical requirements
• Working closely with front-line and operational support teams to test, validate and refine models to support adoption and operational impact
• Maintaining the backlogs for development, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to prioritise development
• Supporting community development through technical engagement and leadership on AI engineering

Qualifications and Experience

• Five or more years of experience, including at least two years hands-on experience designing and deploying generative AI systems, including tool calls, integration and orchestration
• Tertiary qualifications in engineering, computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience developing production AI systems
• Experience in multi-disciplinary teams, particularly business and technology
• Ability to translate complex data sources and technical issues into requirements
• Experience in data science methods for data-driven process discovery would be well regarded
• Experience in software engineering, including system architecture, API development, automated testing and production deployment, is well regarded
• Experience in mining operations or mine control would be well regarded

About Us

Be part of something big. Fortescue is leading the world with our plan to decarbonise our iron ore operations, projects that harness renewable energy and the development of technology that will change our planet forever.

Our Commitment

Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics.We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

https://fortescue.com/careers

Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified.