Principal AI Engineer | Digital Team | Global Locations

 

 

About BHP 

 

At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.

 

 

Come and be a part of this success.

 

 

About Digital

 

Digital is a bold team, driving BHP's edge in the digital space. We nurture creativity, innovation, and diverse thinking to solve major business challenges. In our dynamic, hands-on and highly energising environment, you will define problems, drive meaningful change, and be held accountable to deliver sustainable solutions. If you are deeply curious, passionate about change and committed to learning, join us to make a lasting impact.

 

 

About the Role

 

This delivery-focused role will adopt AI and Data Excellence designs and best practice from within the CoE and implement within Digital's prioritised Domain initiatives. As required, this role will support the Practice Lead AI Excellence and leader of the AI Hub with the development of architectural documentation, standards, and supporting training material to represent excellence in AI design and implementation, as well as provide feedback gathered from delivery experience.

 

Key accountabilities include:  

 

• Design, train, and fine-tune machine learning, deep learning or computer vision models, selecting appropriate algorithms and frameworks based on business needs
• Collect, clean and preprocess large datasets as required for AI training in compliance with data quality and regulatory standards, working across structured and unstructured data, including text, images, video and time series.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product owners, developers, and UX designers, to integrate AI solutions into digital products, orchestrating agents across platforms as required
• Creates scalable and efficient AI systems and architectures.
• Optimises the performance of AI models so they run efficiently and effectively. Improve AI models as advances in models arise.

 

 

About You

 

You are:

 

• Deeply curious: You thrive in fast-paced environments and have a passion for learning about opportunities and new technologies that can improve our business and the way we work.  
• Passionate about change: You are enthusiastic about change, able to influence your peers and leaders to deliver measurable and meaningful results.  
• A problem solver: You use data, creativity, and innovation to tackle complex challenges. Systems thinking is core to your approach, including people, relationships, and change.  
• Delivery focused: You consistently gather insights, translate them into actions, and close them out to achieve sustainable outcomes.  
• Highly collaborative: You excel in diverse teams and build strong relationships with stakeholders. 

You have: 

 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, AI Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field. 
• Extensive experience in software automation, with a background in developing and implementing automation solutions. 
• Experience in Digital and AI technologies, with a proven track record of successful project delivery. 
• Strong understanding of software development methodologies and best practices.
• Fluent English, both written and spoken, is required. While not mandatory, fluency in Spanish is a definite plus!

 

 

 

We offer flexible work arrangements and are open to full-time, part-time, and job-share arrangements. Enjoy a Monday to Friday schedule with options for hybrid work, allowing you to balance your professional and personal life effectively.

 

We also have flexibility for this role to be based in Singapore, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide or Santiago, where our BHP corporate offices are located, based on the successful applicant's situation/preference and in accordance with local working rights. To find out BHP global corporate office locations, please click here 

 

Applications close next Sunday, April 6, at 11:59 pm (AEST)

 

 

 

About Our Process 

 

At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Charter Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks. 

 

If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in using your BHP email address or apply via our internal jobs portal. 

 

Supporting a Diverse Workforce  
 

The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.  

 

At BHP, we know that we are strengthened by diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity employer that is committed to making BHP a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every day. We are focused on creating a workforce that’s more diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.

 

BHP is committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all. If you have a disability, we know that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. If you would like to reach out to someone about your situation and our recruitment process, please email us at inclusion@bhp.com.