# AI/ML Engineer

We are seeking 6 talented and forward-thinking AI/ML Engineers to design, build, and scale enterprise-grade artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions. You will be responsible for taking models from initial prototype to robust, production-level deployment and integrating these solutions within Downer’s broader technology landscape. This role is suited to collaborative, quality-focused engineers who enjoy building, testing and improving production-ready AI solutions with an agentic first mindset. You will work across enterprise scale AI platforms including Azure Databricks and MS Foundry and be well versed in engineering tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and/or Github Copilot. You’ll be working within product delivery teams and will collaborate with architecture, cyber security, data governance and platform engineering teams as well as being a key influencer with business stakeholders. This position is Australia-based, with Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane preferred and may require occasional travel to various Downer sites. About the Role In this role, you will: Design, build, test and deploy enterprise grade AI solutions and agentic workflows across MS Azure and Dat

- **Id**: 2895493
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/downer-group-aiml-engineer-2>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Melbourne, Australia
- **Countries**: AU
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-20T01:18:25Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-20
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T18:20:15Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 20
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7400
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning, Flexible schedule, Parental leave, Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Public Transport, Construction

## Company

- **Id**: 2169700
- **Name**: Downer Group
- **Domain**: downergroup.co.nz
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/downergroup>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 89
- **Open postings**: 14
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.429
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 91000
- **Max usd**: 234000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: global_role_cell_scaled_by_country
- **Sample n**: 2102

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Bedrock** — Optional: no
- **AWS Strands Agents** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Copilot Studio** — Optional: no
- **CrewAI** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **Explainable AI** — Optional: no
- **FinOps** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **Hallucination** — Optional: no
- **Human-in-the-Loop** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Graph** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **MLFlow** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI Codex** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 20

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-20T04:31:42Z
- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T21:07:15Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 79
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.879
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 19
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:mid, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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