- Senior
- Office in Sydney
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 www.newscorpaustralia.com/careers
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 www.newscorpaustralia.com/careers under the DEI section.
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