Senior AI Engineer - Mine Intelligence & Generative AI

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

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