An exciting opportunity for an experienced AI Engineer to build solutions that will support meaningful, intelligence-led regulatory activity.
The Office of the National Rail Safety Regulator (ONRSR) is searching for a skilled and practical AI Engineer with a proven track record of delivering measured and appropriate solutions that build trust and reliability.
Reporting to the Senior Manager Data Management and Platform, in this newly formed role you will embrace the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to a future-thinking operating model where data, and its infrastructure, is integral to regulatory decisions and outcomes. You will leverage your extensive subject matter expertise, facilitation skills and ability to connect and communicate with a range of stakeholders to play a formative role in building AI acceptance and capability across the organisation.
In consultation with fellow subject matter experts, you will support the design and delivery of ONRSR’s Reference Architecture for generative and agentic infrastructure. Additionally, you will ensure our data pipelines meet our protection and governance guidelines while aligning to business needs, monitoring the consumption, usage and service levels of our solutions to ensure appropriate use and system performance.
If you are passionate about impactful solution design, have a disciplined engineering background and you are looking to apply your strengths critical thinking, problem solving and relationship building skills, this may be the right opportunity for you.
The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience in designing, building and operating scalable AI pipelines across data collection, evaluation, deployment and monitoring, with further experience working on NLP, large language models or document understanding/analysis applications.
You will be passionate about AI adoption, demonstrating active use of modern AI tools in the development process. As a key contributor in the Safety and Regulatory Insights team, you will have experience with cloud platforms and associated AI/ML services alongside your ability to develop high trust retrieval-based systems and agentic tools.
The ideal candidate will possess:
The Office of the National Rail Safety Regulator (ONRSR) has the responsibility for regulatory oversight of rail safety throughout Australia. As an independent regulatory authority, ONRSR pursues safe railways for Australia by encouraging safe rail operations, enforcing national compliance with the Rail Safety National Law and promoting and improving rail safety across the country.
Be part of a values-led organisation with a strong commitment to its Culture Blueprint - the foundation for our purposeful, diverse and inclusive workplace and a key contributor to how we achieve our vision of Safe Railways for all Australians.
The application process
Not sure you meet all the requirements? That’s okay — we’re interested in people who may not tick all the boxes. If this sounds like a place you’d thrive, we’d love to hear from you.
To Apply, please submit your resume along with a cover letter outlining why you are interested in the role and how your experience aligns with what we are looking for.
More information can be found in the Position Description which is attached below and can also be found at: https://www.onrsr.com.au/about-onrsr/working-at-onrsr
As part of the recruitment and selection process, shortlisted candidates will be required to undertake a national criminal history check. Please note that the outcome of this check will be considered in context and does not automatically disqualify applicants from progressing.
Salary: $142,416 - $168,216 + 12% super
Applications close: Wednesday, 22 April 2026, 6:00PM
To apply:
At ONRSR, we’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including those of diverse gender identities, sexual orientations, cultures, religions, ages, abilities and neurodiversity.
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