AI Engineer

Job Requisition ID: 42150

• At Deloitte we are building and scaling a suite of AI powered products to accelerate the delivery of our service offerings across our business units.
• Tackle big issues like cyber, trust, resilience and digital transformation
• Mentoring, coaching and leadership programs to help you make an impact that matters

Join us as an AI Engineer in Sydney, working in a hybrid model to help design and build AI features that enable teams to work with structured and unstructured data and quickly produce client deliverables.

What will your typical day look like?

Build and improve AI features for business workflows using modern AI models, agentic patterns, and supporting code. Support pipeline development across data extraction, retrieval (RAG), and basic validation, with guidance from senior engineers.

Testing and evaluation will form an important part of the role, including contributing to test sets, quality checks, and regression testing for prompts and workflows. You will also help ship and run AI services in development and production environments using team tooling and processes, while learning observability basics such as monitoring, logging, and tracking key accuracy and latency metrics.

Collaboration is central to the role. You will work closely with practitioners, engineers, and security to understand requirements and deliver practical solutions, while contributing to AI applications that address real business challenges and helping the team take ideas from prototype through to reliable delivery.

About the team

At Deloitte we are building and scaling a suite of AI powered products to accelerate the delivery of our service offerings across our business units. In this role, you’ll work with experienced engineers and practitioners to help design and build AI features that enable teams to work with a mix of structured and unstructured data and quickly produce client deliverables.

Enough about us, let's talk about you

You may have all or some of the following skills/experiences:

• 1–3 years’ experience (or equivalent internships/projects) in software engineering and AI
• Strong Python fundamentals and experience working with common data/AI libraries
• Understanding of core software engineering concepts (APIs, testing, version control, code review)
• Experience integrating applications with enterprise systems and APIs
• A degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a collaborative mindset
• Hands-on exposure to LLMs, including open-weight models, prompt engineering, retrieval (RAG), or agentic workflows
• Experience building simple production APIs (e.g., FastAPI) and integrating with databases (SQL/NoSQL)

Why Deloitte?

At Deloitte, we focus our energy on interesting and impactful work. We're always learning, innovating and setting the standard; making a positive difference to our clients and our society. We put coaching at the heart of what we do, helping our people grow their careers in any direction - whether it be up, moving into something new, or even moving across the world.

We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion. We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone's perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong.

We value in-person connection with our clients and our colleagues. We offer several ways for you to work flexibly so that you can serve your clients, stay connected with your team, and manage your personal priorities.

We help you live and work well. To support your personal and professional life, we offer a range of perks and benefits, including retail discounts, wellbeing leave, paid volunteering days, twelve flexible working options, market-leading parental leave and return to work support package.

Next Steps

Sound like the sort of role for you? Apply now, we'd love to hear from you!

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By applying for this job, you’ll be assessed against the Deloitte Talent Standards. We’ve designed these standards so that you can grow in your career, and we can provide our clients with a consistent and exceptional Deloitte employee experience globally. The preferred candidate will be subject to background screening by Deloitte or by their external third-party provider.