Junior AI Engineer
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📊 Junior AI Engineer
📍 Location: Sydney, NSW
💼 Employment Type: Permanent
💰 Salary: $110,000 + Super + Bonus
🧠 About the Role
We are seeking a motivated Junior AI Engineer to join a growing data and AI team based in Sydney. This is a permanent opportunity for someone early in their career who is excited about using Python, AI tools, and automation to solve real-world business problems and build practical AI-driven solutions.
You'll work closely with senior engineers and data scientists to design, build, and deploy data pipelines and AI-powered workflows that drive efficiency and insight across the organisation.
🛠️ Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain Python-based scripts for data analysis, automation, and AI workflows.
- Build and support AI-powered solutions to solve business challenges.
- Use modern AI developer tools (e.g. Cursor, Claude Code, or similar) to accelerate development.
- Create and maintain web scraping scripts for structured and unstructured data collection.
- Perform data extraction, cleansing, and transformation across multiple data sources.
- Leverage AI tools to automate repetitive data and operational tasks.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and deliver insights.
- Support the deployment and monitoring of data and AI solutions in production.
🎓 Skills & Experience
- Commercial or project-based experience using Python for data analysis or automation.
- Comfortable using AI tools proficiently to enhance productivity and solution design.
- Experience or exposure to Cursor, Claude Code, or similar AI-assisted coding tools.
- Hands-on experience with web scraping, APIs, or data ingestion pipelines.
- Strong understanding of data cleansing, validation, and preparation techniques.
- Interest in building and scaling AI-driven solutions.
- Familiarity with version control (Git) and basic software engineering practices.
- A degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field is preferred.
✨ What's on Offer
- Competitive salary of $110k + Super + Bonus
- Permanent role based in Sydney
- Hands-on exposure to AI, automation, and real-world data problems
- Mentorship from experienced data scientists and engineers
- Supportive, learning-focused environment with strong career progression
- Opportunity to work with modern tools and cutting-edge AI technologies 🚀
If you feel you possess the relevant skills to the above, apply now with most updated CV!