ML Software Engineer

About This Role

Brunel are partnered with a leading Energy & Resource company to deliver the best work opportunities for IT & Technical professionals within Australia. We are currently seeking a ML Software Engineer - to work on a contract basis on an exciting project.

We're seeking a talented, curious and motivated Machine Learning/Software Engineer to design, build, and scale real-world applications powered by large language models (LLMs). You'll work closely with domain experts, product managers, and software engineers to turn ideas into prototypes and prototypes into production-ready tools that solve meaningful problems using cutting-edge AI.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify high-impact AI use cases that benefit from LLM capabilities
• Understand mining and engineering domain challenges and develop AI solutions to assist
• Design and build software applications eand APIs that leverag LLMs (e.g., OpenAI GPT, Claude, Mistral, LLaMA)
• Implement prompt engineering strategies and optimisation techniques for specific business tasks
• Create autonomous agents capable of planning, reasoning, and executing complex multi-step tasks
• Integrate LLM-powered features into new or existing products with strong UX considerations
• Develop evaluation frameworks to test LLM output quality, relevance, and safety
• Stay on top of LLM advancements and contribute to internal best practices and technical strategy
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code
  
  
  

About You

You're a software engineer with a builder's mindset and a passion for AI. You may not be a deep learning researcher, but you're excited to turn LLMs into useful products. You can clearly communicate and present ideas, progress and results to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of professional software engineering or ML engineering experience
• Strong proficiency in Python (preferred) or TypeScript/JavaScript
• Experience integrating APIs, especially LLMs (OpenAI, Hugging Face, etc.)
• Familiarity with modern backend frameworks (FastAPI, Flask, Node.js)
• Understanding of prompt engineering and basic model evaluation
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience with AI development tools and libraries (LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, etc.)
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of embeddings, vector databases, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
• Experience with front-end frameworks (React, Vue) for building user-facing LLM tools
• Experience with MLOps practices such as model versioning, monitoring, evaluation pipelines and CI/CD
• Familiarity with model fine-tuning or training using libraries like Hugging Face Transformers
• Knowledge of data privacy and security concerns when deploying AI applications
  
  
  

Benefits

About Brunel:

Brunel is a recruitment and flexible workforce solution provider which connects talented people with opportunities throughout Australasia and around the world. We specialise in highly skilled roles across a variety of technical, professional, trades and craft disciplines, pairing candidates with industry-leading projects and organisations on a contract, permanent or secondment basis.

Operating in Australasia since 1997, Brunel has major bases of operation in Perth, Sydney, Brisbane and Port Moresby, which are further backed by the strength and reach of a truly global network spanning over 45 countries, 120 offices and 45 years of successful operation.

Brunel is proud to be equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and female candidates.

How to apply:

If you meet the above requirements and would like to be considered for this role, please submit your interest using the 'Apply' button. Applying is quick and easy - just make sure you have the following documents ready to go:

• Resume
• Cover Letter (optional)