Senior AI/ML Engineer - Production & MLOps Platform

Australian Signals Directorate; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) in Melbourne, within the Mission Data Division, builds and deploys production AI systems at scale. The AI Engineering team collaborates with data scientists and engineers to advance cutting-edge machine learning capabilities.

The role covers developing and maintaining the Enterprise MLOps Platform, deploying AI models, and leading technical initiatives across ASD teams. Applicants should have strong Python, Docker/Kubernetes, and ML tooling experience.

Qualifications

• Strong Python development skills for production-grade AI systems.
• Experience with containerised environments and ML operations tooling.
• Familiarity with building and maintaining ML pipelines and production workloads.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot AI models in production environments.
• Develop and maintain ASD’s in-house Enterprise MLOps Platform.
• Lead engagements with other engineering teams to integrate AI services.
• Review and optimise production ML code and pipelines.

Skills

Python development

Production AI systems

Team leadership

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

MLFlow

Ray

VLLM Production Stack

NVIDIA Dynamo

GitLab CI/CD

Open-source tooling

Job description

Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) in Melbourne, within the Mission Data Division, builds and deploys production AI systems at scale. The AI Engineering team collaborates with data scientists and engineers to advance cutting-edge machine learning capabilities.

The role covers developing and maintaining the Enterprise MLOps Platform, deploying AI models, and leading technical initiatives across ASD teams. Applicants should have strong Python, Docker/Kubernetes, and ML tooling experience.