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Machine Learning Engineer in All Australia

Takes models from notebooks into reliable production systems.

Also searched as ml engineer, ai engineer

Right now

12-month change
Up+29%1,940 → 2,506 ads
Official statistics
Entry
7.3%17 of 234 ads
Job ads
234job ads in 28 days
  • 12-month changeUp+29%1,940 → 2,506 ads
    Official
  • Demand234job ads in 28 days
    Job ads
  • 4-week changeUp+7.3%218 → 234 ads
    Job ads
  • Entry-level share7.3%17 of 234 ads
    Job ads
  • No PR stated70.1%164 of 234 ads
    Job ads
  • Employers hiring82top 5 post 19.4%
    Job ads
  • Median salary$149k1,103 of 2,506 ads
    Job ads
5 more measures

Advanced measures are noisier or easier to misread. Open the ⓘ next to each before leaning on it.

  • Salary range$104k–$200k1,103 of 2,506 ads
    Job ads
  • Remote or hybrid51.3%120 of 234 ads
    Job ads
  • Contract share21.8%51 of 234 ads
    Job ads
  • Skills per ad1010 skills per ad
    Job ads
  • Volatility0.080.08 (steady below 0.15)
    Job ads

Advertised pay

What ads for this role offer

Median

$149ka year

1,103 of 2,506 ads in the last 12 months state a salary (44.0%).

Job ad aggregate
Middle 80% of advertised salaries
One in ten ads offers less than $104k; one in ten offers more than $200k. The middle ad offers $149k.

Advertised base salary, not total pay. Senior roles state pay less often, so the real range is likely wider.

Top holdings

What these ads ask for

The skills that make up this role: the share of Machine Learning Engineer ads that mention each one. An ad usually asks for several skills, so shares add up to more than 100%.

  • PythonLanguages

    in 90% of these ads
    90% of Machine Learning Engineer ads mention Python.
  • Machine learningData

    in 85% of these ads
    85% of Machine Learning Engineer ads mention Machine learning.
  • PyTorchData

    in 60% of these ads
    60% of Machine Learning Engineer ads mention PyTorch.
  • LLM engineeringData

    in 45% of these ads
    45% of Machine Learning Engineer ads mention LLM engineering.
  • DockerCloud & infrastructure

    in 40% of these ads
    40% of Machine Learning Engineer ads mention Docker.
  • AWSCloud & infrastructure

    in 40% of these ads
    40% of Machine Learning Engineer ads mention AWS.
  • KubernetesCloud & infrastructure

    in 30% of these ads
    30% of Machine Learning Engineer ads mention Kubernetes.
  • RustLanguages

    in 6% of these ads
    6% of Machine Learning Engineer ads mention Rust.

Location

Where the ads are

  • Victoria85 · 36.2%
  • New South Wales81 · 34.5%
  • Queensland25 · 10.6%
  • Australian Capital Territory17 · 7.2%
  • Western Australia15 · 6.4%
  • South Australia8 · 3.4%
  • Tasmania4 · 1.7%
  • Northern Territory0 · 0.00%

235 ads in the last four weeks under your filter, by state or country.

Everyday abilities

Core competencies

How much of each everyday ability Machine Learning Engineer work typically calls for. Every job uses these, so we don’t track demand for them.

Illustrative — based on the ASC core competency scale · Levels run from 1 (basic) to 10 (highly complex) and describe how much of each ability the work calls for. They are not a judgement of any person.

Framework: Australian Skills Classification, Jobs and Skills Australia · What core competencies are

Before you decide

Demand is only one input

Time to get job-ready

A year or more

Usually a year or more of study and experience, often through a specific degree or graduate program.

Transferability

Narrow

Mostly useful in a small set of roles or one tool ecosystem.

Rising ads don’t mean you should learn this.

Your interests, the time you have and what people in the work tell you matter more. Effort and transferability are editorial estimates, not measurements.

Next step

Numbers only go so far. Ask someone who does this job.

Where these numbers come from

Sources
Official statisticsOccupation vacancy series (illustrative fixture)Job ad aggregateJob ads (illustrative fixture)
Last updated
21 September 2026 at 7:05 pm
Tracked since June 2024
Sample
234 ads in the last 28 days under this filter
We need at least 30 ads before showing a number or drawing a trend.
Method
How “12-month change” is measuredAll measures and where they applyData sources and extraction method

Numbers in this preview are generated to behave like the real pipeline. They are not real market signals.