Editorial AI Prompt Engineer

What's the role?
Join Australia's premier Editorial AI Innovation team and play a pivotal role in defining how artificial intelligence communicates with journalists.

We've established ourselves as industry leaders by successfully embedding cutting-edge technology that enhances and never replaces our journalists' expertise.

As our AI Prompt Engineer, you'll craft the sophisticated language systems that power our newsroom tools, ensuring every interaction is precise, ethical, and aligned with our editorial standards.

This role can be worked from any of our head offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Queensland or Adelaide
Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the bridge between advanced AI technology and practical journalism. Your work will involve designing, testing, and refining the prompts that guide our AI models, ensuring outputs meet the exacting standards our journalists require.
• Through close collaboration with editorial teams, you'll build tools that enhance workflow efficiency whilst maintaining the integrity that defines quality journalism.
• Develop and fine-tune sophisticated prompts that guide AI models to produce accurate, contextually appropriate responses for diverse journalistic applications.
• Partner with journalists and editorial teams through structured interviews and workshops to understand workflow requirements and translate them into effective AI interactions.
• Define and document excellence benchmarks for AI outputs, ensuring adherence to accuracy, relevance, tone, and editorial guidelines.
• Build and maintain a comprehensive, version-controlled library of prompt patterns and strategies for organisation-wide use.
• Share insights and successful strategies across teams to drive ongoing improvement and learning.

Who are you?

• Genuine passion for journalism and understanding of modern newsroom operations
• Curiosity, curiosity, curiosity. Did we mention curiosity?
• Demonstrated elementary coding experience, preferably Python, natural language processing (NLP) and prompt engineering using different models
• Strong grasp of language semantics and syntax, coupled with an experimental mindset
• Excellent communication skills and ability to build trust with both journalists and technical teams
• Meticulous attention to detail and unwavering commitment to accuracy

*What We Offer*

• Challenging role in Australia's most advanced Editorial AI team
• Flexible hybrid working environment
• Competitive salary package with growth opportunities
• Opportunity to shape the future of journalism technology

News Benefits
News Benefits is our way of saying thank you to our people for their valued contribution to News, our audiences, clients and communities. Thanking them for the great things they do daily, for the greater good of Australia. Our benefits include:

• Exclusively ours - Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family
• Health & wellbeing - Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies (including an onsite gym at our Adelaide, Brisbane & Sydney offices)
• Time off - News offers a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life: Parental leave, Birthday leave, Volunteer leave, Career break and Compassionate leave.
• Helping you grow - Development opportunities (including diversity and inclusion - focused education series) and recognition
• Financial wellbeing - Support on making the most of your money
• Perks & discounts - Exclusive offers across a range of products and services
• Giving back - Make a difference to our communities.
• Workplace Inclusion and facilities – Engage with your passions through various employee-resource groups and accessibility to multi-faith quiet rooms & parents' rooms

Who are we?
We are proud to be Australia's most impactful media group, we're even prouder of what we stand for: Together, we inform, advocate and inspire all Australians, for a better Australia.

With over 150 brands across news, sport and lifestyle, backed by a team of more than 5,000 dedicated people across the country, News Corp Australia is trusted by over 17 million Australians a month to provide the information and inspiration they seek across multiple digital, video, audio and print platforms.

Renowned for world-class journalism and marketing services nationally and internationally, we are passionate, creative and dynamic. We offer a fast-paced environment that encourages individuals to take control of their future and challenge themselves in ever-changing fields.

News Corp Australia is evolving in response to the expectations and challenges of the digital world in which we now live. We have an amazing opportunity to reinvent our industry and redefine the future of media in Australia. We are passionate about what we do and are proud of our heritage of world-class journalism and entrepreneurial spirit. Our environment is supportive and friendly, we encourage innovation, collaboration and creative thinking. If you thrive on being challenged and enjoy working in a fast-paced stimulating environment, come and join us on this incredible journey.

What's next?
Apply now or for more information on careers at News Corp Australia visit

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
We know that diversity strengthens our teams and newsrooms as we seek to tell stories that represent the diverse communities of Australia that we serve. Our people make us unique and we all have a story. We encourage people of all ages, backgrounds, races, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, abilities and gender identities to apply. Inclusion is important to us and we want everyone at News to bring their whole-selves to work. If you require any accommodations or adjustments throughout the recruitment process, or would like to outline which pronouns you prefer, please feel free to let us know.
If you require any accommodations or adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please feel free to let us know. For more information regarding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at NewsCorp Australia please visit

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