AI Jobs in Australia (2026)

Managers are a bigger share of Australian AI hiring than on the US, Canada or London pages. Of the 149 live listings as of September 2026, 40 are lead, manager or architect roles, against 48 mid level, 37 senior and 14 staff or principal, so nearly three in ten levelled listings are management. Titles like Lead for Credit Decision Science and AI, AI Outcomes Manager and Principal AI Security Specialist are typical. Only seven listings were posted in the past week.

Anduril has nine open roles in Australia, Xero eight, NICE seven, IMC Trading six, Teach For All five and Anthropic four. Defense, accounting software, contact center technology, proprietary trading, a nonprofit and a frontier lab: the employer mix is more varied than the size of the hub would suggest. By category, machine learning engineering leads with 30 listings, robotics and embodied AI has 10, data engineering eight and research four, with the rest in consulting, security and product roles that mention AI.

Of the country-tagged listings, 103 are in Australia and 10 are US employers offering an Australian role. Only 35 percent are remote, close to the US share and well below Canada or Spain, so most of these jobs mean Sydney, Melbourne or another office. Salary is essentially never stated in US dollars (1 percent of listings), which makes sense for a market that quotes in Australian dollars; the salary tools on this site will not help here.

Use /ai-jobs-sydney and /ai-jobs-melbourne to split the hub by city, and /ai-jobs-in-new-zealand if you are open to the wider region. The level filter is the most useful control on this page given how many roles are management; set it to mid or senior to drop the lead positions. For remote alternatives, /remote-ai-jobs with the country filter left open will show employers elsewhere that may accept Australian time zones.