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No matter where you are on your property journey, we’re here to help with every step - from finding your next home to financing it.\nOur people are the key to our success. At the heart of everything we do is a thriving culture centred on high performance and care. We are purpose-driven and collaborative, which drives innovation and our ability to make a real impact.\nWe’re proud to have been named one of Australia’s Best Workplaces four times since 2021 - including third place in 2025 - as well as Best Workplace for Women in 2023 and Best Workplace in Technology in 2024 and 2025. These accolades are testament to every person who helps make REA a great place to work.\nWhere the team fits in\nThe AI Enrichment squad sits within the Experiences & Platforms business unit. We’re creating new products and solutions that will shape how Australians experience property, today and into the future. You’ll work in a multifunctional team across product, machine learning, Software engineering and data engineering. Together, you’ll build data and AI products that power experiences across REA, using techniques including audience segmentation, large language models and multimodal vision-language models.\nWhat the role is all about\nThis is a unique opportunity to design and deliver delightful, reliable ML products at REA. As our Senior Software Engineer, ML, you’ll be instrumental in designing and implementing the intelligent core of our platform.\nYou’ll tackle complex challenges in building reliable, maintainable and scalable AI/ML systems that directly impact millions of users - helping them discover properties in ways they never thought possible. The systems you and your team develop and maintain will span a range of AI/ML techniques, including audience segmentation, large language models and multimodal vision-language models.\nIf you’re passionate about using AI to solve real-world problems and want to help redefine an entire industry, this role is for you.\nYou’ll:\nDesign, implement, test, evaluate, deploy and monitor AI/ML products, pipelines and services using Python, modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch, AWS and cloud-native technologies.\n\nApply engineering best practices including test automation, CI/CD, refactoring, observability, Docker and infrastructure as code to build and operate reliable AI/ML products.\n\nDevelop, test and maintain real-time and batch data engineering pipelines using technologies such as Airflow, SQL, BigQuery and Kafka.\n\nEstablish automated evaluation and monitoring systems to track AI product and feature performance, detect drift and ensure quality at scale.\n\nImplement and optimise ML models for ranking, relevance and retrieval using embeddings, transformers and LLMs in production environments.\n\nMeasure and optimise third-party models through appropriate evaluation and optimisation approaches.\n\nOwn model lifecycle management, including versioning, deployment and CI/CD integration for reproducible experimentation and delivery.\n\nContribute to discussions, design and delivery of ML platform capabilities that accelerate delivery across teams.\n\nWho we’re looking for\nYou’ll bring:\nProficiency in machine learning, ML engineering, MLOps, software engineering and LLMs in a commercial production environment.\n\nDemonstrated knowledge and application of machine learning across training, evaluation, inference and model monitoring, using both structured and unstructured data such as image and text.\n\nProficiency in Python, SQL and other relevant ML technologies. 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