Sitemate

Machine Learning Engineer

Sitemate

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: SydneyAustralia

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Salary

💰 A$85,000 - A$200,000 per year

About the role

  • Help build AI products by architecting, building, training and deploying models.
  • Collaborate with product and design teams to experiment and ship fast.
  • Participate in code reviews and technical discussions, sharing knowledge and shaping engineering standards.
  • Own full AI generation pipelines: data prep/labeling, model selection and fine-tuning.
  • Build and maintain data pipelines to ensure clean, reliable, and scalable training datasets.
  • Evaluate and integrate third-party AI services and APIs to accelerate development.
  • Deploy, monitor, and continuously improve model performance, accuracy and costs.
  • Conduct experiments to evaluate new features, algorithms, architectures, or approaches.
  • Document workflows, share insights, and contribute to best practices in applied machine learning.

Requirements

  • 2+ years shipping production features.
  • Strong Python for ML and working knowledge of TypeScript.
  • Experience with LLMs (fine-tuning, prompt engineering, evaluation).
  • Understanding of ML fundamentals (training/validation/test splits, overfitting, metrics like precision/recall).
  • Hands-on experience with structured data extraction from unstructured sources.
  • AWS cloud experience.
  • Nice to Have: Built agentic systems (e.g., LangGraph, Bedrock Agents/AgentCore, OpenAI Agents SDK) and/or MCP servers.
  • Experience with model quantization and optimization techniques.
  • MLOps: experiment tracking, model/version management, A/B or shadow testing, rollback strategies.
  • Experience building real-time voice features: speech recognition, conversational flow.
  • Experience with vector databases and RAG implementation.
  • Knowledge of prompt chaining and few-shot learning techniques.
  • Data privacy & security for AI workloads (PII handling, auditability, least-privilege IAM).
Benefits
  • Competitive, performance-based remuneration
  • Equity options - own a piece of what you’re helping to build
  • 20 days of paid annual leave, plus sick, carer’s, and compassionate leave
  • Paid parental leave - 16 weeks for primary carers, 6 weeks for secondary carers (including adoption and stillbirth support)
  • Professional growth budget and a transparent career development framework
  • Laptop and home-office setup budget
  • Flexible work - remote or hybrid, plus the ability to work from anywhere for a few weeks each year
  • Community & connection - weekly team lunches, global offsites, and our signature “Life Story” sessions
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonTypeScriptLLMsmodel fine-tuningstructured data extractionAWSmodel quantizationMLOpsspeech recognitionvector databases
Soft Skills
collaborationknowledge sharingtechnical discussiondocumentationexperiment evaluation