PwC Australia
Data Scientist
PwC AustraliaAustralia3 hours ago
Full-timeRemote FriendlyEngineering, Information Technology
Permanent

All AU Location - Hybrid – Full time

At PwC Australia, the Advisory Technology team helps solve practical challenges faced by both our diversified Advisory business, and our clients. As an AI Engineer, you’ll play a vital role in understanding of practical digital technologies, and the ability to understand and solve complex business problems, working with clients across Advisory Technology to adopt emerging technologies; understand our customers problems; apply digital solutions in innovative and progressive manners to support technological transformation of modern businesses.

Why PwC?

At PwC Australia, your skills meet purpose. We tackle big challenges across industries like finance, technology, energy, and health—giving you the chance to make a real impact. Here, your growth is our priority. You’ll work with leading teams, explore new technologies, and unlock your full potential.

Join a global community of more than 370,000 people who value bold ideas, collaboration, and lasting change. Together, we’re building trust and shaping the future.

What you’ll do:

  • Designing and fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) using SFT, PEFT/LoRA/QLoRA, distillation, and implementing RLHF/DPO/RLAIF with defined reward models and feedback pipelines.
  • Building evaluation frameworks for task quality, grounding, robustness, safety (toxicity, bias, privacy), including offline and online A/B testing with guardrail metrics.
  • Retrieval-augmented workflows, agentic patterns, policy-driven tool use, safe function calling, memory/state management, and resilient fallbacks under guardrails.
  • Demonstrate strong consulting skills with a focus on responsible AI practices, threat modelling, privacy and ethics compliance in the Australian context, and effective client collaboration for Proof of Concept (PoC) and Minimum Viable Product (MVP) delivery.


What we’re looking for:

  • Strong Deep learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) skills with PyTorch (or JAX), Transformers, PEFT/LoRA/QLoRA, and fundamentals in probability, statistics, and experimental design.
  • Experienced in building and maintaining evaluation suites for quality, robustness, bias/toxicity, and jailbreak resistance with offline and online testing.
  • Proficient in Python programming.
  • Optional expertise in retrieval (hybrid search, rerankers), knowledge graphs, policy-driven agentic workflows, and privacy-preserving Machine Learning (ML) techniques.


What you’ll gain:

  • The opportunity to work with leading organisations and cutting-edge technology that challenge and expand your expertise.
  • Flexibility means trusting you to choose when, where, and how you work—balancing what’s best for you, your team, and your clients to grow and thrive together.
  • Clear paths for career progression supported by continuous learning and leadership development.
  • Generous leave entitlements including four weeks’ annual leave and float public holidays to support your work-life balance.
  • A world-class parental leave policy offering up to 26 weeks of leave for caregivers, supporting your family and personal life.


We know that perks are as important as your financial rewards. Explore all the benefits that PwC has to offer here.

Ready to grow here and go further? Join PwC Australia as a Data Scientist and make an impact that goes beyond the expected. Apply now and take your next step with a team shaping the future.

We’re committed to treating all our job applicants fairly and with respect, irrespective of their actual or assumed background, disability, neurodivergence, or any other protected characteristic. We want you to have every opportunity to thrive in our selection process. In the application form, you can let us know what adjustments you require during our recruitment process and/or any workplace accommodations you anticipate needing to help you perform your role.

No Agencies Please: We kindly request that recruitment agencies do not submit CVs in response to this advertisement. We are only accepting applications direct from individuals.

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