VIE AI Engineer & Data Scientist Consultant

About the role

Join Sia’s AI & Data Business Unit in Melbourne to help clients transform their processes using Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, and Data Science. You will work alongside Data Scientists, ML Engineers, Solution Architects and Platform Engineers to design, build and deploy AI solutions that deliver measurable business value.

Key responsibilities

• Assist the GenAI Solution Architect in designing scalable, secure AI solutions and develop applications powered by foundation models, both self‑managed and API‑accessible.
• Design prompting, orchestration, and Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) strategies to improve reasoning, reliability and user experience.
• Build and optimise agentic AI systems using frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen or Semantic Kernel.
• Develop explanatory and predictive ML models, deep‑learning solutions for text, image and audio, and LLM‑based conversational assistants.
• Research the latest advances in foundation models, multimodal AI and agentic systems.

Required profile

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, AI, Statistics, Econometrics or related field.
• At least one year of technical experience in Data Science, Big Data or AI solution development.
• Fluent in English and eligible for a VIE contract (French or EU nationality, age 18‑27).

Required skills

• Proficient Python programming and code versioning.
• Experience with Generative AI frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, RAG) and advanced prompting techniques.
• Deep‑learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Statistical and quantitative analysis expertise.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and API development (Flask, FastAPI) is a plus.