Principal Artificial Intelligence

**Date**:16 Dec 2024

**Job Posting End Date**:
**Job Country**:Australia

**Job State/Province**:Western Australia

**Job Location/Region**:Perth

**About BHP**

At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.

Come and be a part of this success.

**About the Role**
- We have an exciting newly created position within our Global Project Centre of Excellence (PCoE) function. As an AI visionary, you will help revolutionise project delivery, governance and assurance at a global scale.
- We have **flexibility for this role to be based globally where BHP corporate offices are located**and as appropriate to the successful applicant situation/preference and align with appropriate location's working rights.
- The Principal AI role is part of a dedicated AI team in BHP's Project Centre of Excellence (PCoE). Working in partnership with our project communities we're using AI to drive innovation and achieve project excellence.
- As a Principal AI, you will be a trusted advisor, partnering at all levels across our global and regional project teams, and consulting directly with our project communities to understand their pain points and opportunities. You will be passionate about identifying quantifiable value and then using this knowledge to rapidly develop and support the AI solutions that have the greatest impact.

You will work closely with peers both within PCoE and all project delivery groups across all commodities and regions, this includes the other streams within Data and Systems who own and manage the data that fuels our AI solutions. You will form close working relationships with the BHP Technology teams that enable and support our AI solution platforms.

**About You**
- You will be comfortable delivering all aspects of AI solutions, including documentation, coding, testing and engaging with end users of our AI solutions.
- Your technical skills include:

- **Python**, including **Pandas**, API development, machine learning including regression models, scikit-learn, TensorFlow.
- **GenAI**, including natural language processing, RAG and LLM reasoning / prompting.
- Data wrangling and data ingestion from a range of data sources including, SAP, SharePoint and Snowflake as well as unstructured data such as documents, spreadsheets and drawings.
- Data integration, including use of LLM API's to create content, set up and management of vector databases and development of retrieval pipelines.
- **AWS cloud services**, including Sagemaker, Bedrock, API Gateway, Lambda functions, SNS and SQS.
- MS Power Platforms.
- MS CoPilot Studio.
- MS Power BI.
- UI frameworks such as Streamlit,or JavaScript-based frameworks.
- Technical troubleshooting and problem solving
- Your attributes include:

- Highly motivated, taking ownership to consistently deliver on commitments.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Curious with the ability to ask the right questions and assimilate information from a variety of sources to quickly demonstrate an understanding of your customers business processes, pain points and needs.
- A proven track record in the end-to-end delivery of impactful AI solutions.
- Ability to thrive when working as part of a global team.
- Fluent in English, with fluency in Spanish highly regarded.
- To find out more about working with BHP and to meet some of our team, **Click here**
- Application close on **Sunday, 12 Jan 2025**

**About Our Process**

At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Charter Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks.

**Supporting a Diverse Workforce**

The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.

At BHP, we know that we are strengthened by diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity employer that is committed to making BHP a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every