Lead AI ML Engineer

What's the role?

Join NewsCorp Australia's innovative AI/ML team as a Lead AI/ML Engineer on a 12 month contract and drive technical excellence across our cutting-edge artificial intelligence and machine learning initiatives. This is an exceptional opportunity for a seasoned AI/ML professional to mentor a diverse team, build upon established best practices, and shape the technical direction of projects that directly impact millions of readers across Australia.

You'll be working with the latest Google Cloud technologies, providing technical leadership across diverse AI/ML domains including generative AI, predictive analytics, and intelligent automation systems, whilst serving as the key technical liaison between our AI/ML team and business stakeholders.

What makes this role special:
You'll combine deep technical expertise with mentorship responsibilities, driving both innovation and team capability development in Australia's leading media organisation.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Architect and implement scalable AI/ML frameworks and standards

• Establish coding, model development, and deployment best practices

• Contribute to technical roadmaps and evaluate new AI/ML technologies

• Lead code reviews to ensure high-quality deliverables

Team Development & Mentorship

• Mentor team members from graduate to senior levels

• Conduct workshops, code reviews, and share best practices

• Support career growth and solve complex technical challenges
   

Business Partnership

• Act as technical liaison for editorial, marketing, product, and tech teams

• Translate AI/ML concepts into clear business insights

• Identify AI/ML opportunities and design solutions aligned with business needs
   

Project & Risk Management

• Identify risks and improve development processes for efficiency

• Ensure robust testing, validation, monitoring, and documentation

Innovation & Efficiency

• Drive process optimisation and automation in AI/ML workflows

• Evaluate new tools and establish performance monitoring metrics

Who are you?

Essential Requirements

6+ years in AI/ML engineering or related fields

• ​Advanced Python skills and experience with ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn)

• Proven experience in diverse AI/ML domains including generative AI, NLP, predictive analytics, recommendation systems, anomaly detection, and multimodal AI

• History of mentoring and leading technical initiatives

• Extensive Google Cloud Platform expertise

• Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences

• Excellent problem-solving and process optimisation skills
   

Highly Regarded

• Graduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Statistics, or related fields

• Media/publishing industry experience

• MLOps/DevOps skills (CI/CD, containerisation, automated deployment)

• Data engineering (ETL, large-scale processing)

• UI/UX development for technical dashboards

• Open source contributions and conference speaking experience

• Cross-industry AI/ML exposure

Technology Stack

• Cloud: Google Cloud (BigQuery, Vertex AI, Cloud Functions, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage)

• ML Frameworks: TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, Hugging Face, OpenAI APIs

• Development: Python, Git, Docker, CI/CD pipelines

• Data Processing: Apache Beam, Pandas, NumPy, Spark

• Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Monitoring

• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Cloud Deployment Manager

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?

News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content to consumers throughout the world. The Company comprises of leading businesses across a range of media, including: news and information services, digital real estate services, book publishing, digital education, and sports programming and pay-tv distribution

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 under the DEI section.

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Technology, Digital and Data

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