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Forward-Deployed AI Engineer, Justice and Community Safety

Melbourne💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-07 → 2026-09-26

Core

Forward-deployed AI engineer embedding with Justice and Community Safety (JACS) customers to design, adapt, and deploy the Matilda AI stack for mission outcomes in secure environments.

Role type

Senior IC machine-learning engineer (government security)

Builds

Production ML systems (fine-tuned models, RAG pipelines) on the Matilda stack for classified/on-prem environments

Domain

Australian government defense/intelligence + AI/ML

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, PyTorch, JAX, Hugging Face, MLOps, data pipeline engineering, secure system deployment, architecture design, technical writing

Preferred skills

Large language model fine-tuning and evaluation, retrieval-augmented generation, entity resolution, geospatial analysis, OSINT, graph analytics, solutions architecture

Technologies

Matilda stack, PyTorch, JAX, Hugging Face

Responsibilities

Embed with Victorian J&ES customers to define technical plans; Design, fine-tune, evaluate, and deploy systems in on-prem/air-gapped environments; Own end-to-end delivery including MLOps and security hardening; Brief stakeholders and write architecture papers; Feed customer learnings back to model training teams

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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