Senior ML Engineer – Real-World AI for Property

Rea Group; Melbourne, Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Flexible leave options

Flexible parental leave

Because We Care program

Hackdays

Job summary

REA Group is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, ML to design and deliver reliable AI/ML products powering property experiences for millions of users. You will work in the AI Enrichment squad within the Experiences & Platforms unit, collaborating across product, ML, software and data engineering.

You’ll build and maintain pipelines, optimize models for ranking and retrieval, and ensure scalable, observable systems in production. Hybrid work and strong learning culture are offered.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in ML engineering, MLOps, software engineering and LLMs in production.
• Experience across training, evaluation, inference and model monitoring with structured and unstructured data.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL and ML technologies; ability to design maintainable software.
• Ability to select appropriate ML approaches for commercial use.
• Strong written and verbal communication; cross-team collaboration.
• Ability to lead design, scoping and delivery of key feature slices to high standards.
• Keen learner, mentoring peers, and thrives in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, deploy and monitor AI/ML products, pipelines and services using Python, PyTorch, AWS and cloud-native tech.
• Apply CI/CD, observability, test automation and dockerized workflows for reliable AI/ML products.
• Develop and maintain real-time and batch data pipelines with Airflow, SQL, BigQuery and Kafka.
• Establish automated evaluation and monitoring to track performance and quality at scale.
• Implement and optimize ML models for ranking and retrieval using embeddings, transformers and LLMs.
• Own model lifecycle management including versioning and CI/CD integration.
• Contribute to ML platform capabilities to accelerate delivery across teams.

Skills

ML engineering

MLOps

Software engineering

LLMs

Python

SQL

Communication

Leadership

Problem solving

Tools

PyTorch

AWS

Airflow

BigQuery

Kafka

Docker

Python

SQL

Job description

REA Group is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, ML to design and deliver reliable AI/ML products powering property experiences for millions of users. You will work in the AI Enrichment squad within the Experiences & Platforms unit, collaborating across product, ML, software and data engineering.

You’ll build and maintain pipelines, optimize models for ranking and retrieval, and ensure scalable, observable systems in production. Hybrid work and strong learning culture are offered.