At VicRoads the work you do has real impact. Our work connects people and communities. We keep Victorians moving safely and smoothly today and help them be ready for tomorrow.
VicRoads empowers our people to learn and grow– focusing on impact and innovation. We reflect the diversity of Victoria and foster clever thinking to keep you and the community moving.
VicRoads is progressing too. In August 2022, we started on a new chapter when the Victorian State Government partnered with Aware Super, Australian Retirement Trust, and Macquarie Asset Management to operate registration and licensing services on its behalf.
We work collaboratively with the Victorian State Government to ensure we fulfill regulatory requirements, deliver State projects and safeguard customer data. The Victorian State Government retains sole responsibility for road access, infrastructure and safety.
- Annual Salary Range: up to $110,000
- Employment Type : Full-Time – Ongoing
- Usual Work Location : QV 180 Lonsdale Street CBD/ Work from home
Are you passionate about creating products and experiences that not only meet user needs but also captivate their hearts and minds? Are you excited about the challenge of balancing customer desirability with business viability, technology feasibility and broader business strategy to deliver exceptional experiences? If so, we have an incredible opportunity for you!
We are seeking a talented and driven individual to join our dynamic Technology Operations team. As a team member, you will play a pivotal role in working with our business and helping to support and provide engineering services to the digital platform. You will work alongside a group of passionate professionals who are dedicated to delivering innovative solutions that exceed customer expectations.
Your team is part of the Technology division, a team that are truly collaborative and passionate, and work closely together to deliver outcomes that positively transform the way our customers use our services.
About the Opportunity
The Junior AI Enablement Engineer is an early-career software engineer specialising in AI engineering, supporting the build, test, and operation of VicRoads’ AI engineering capability. The role works alongside more senior engineers to deliver AI platform components, contribute to AI-first delivery across the engineering portfolio, and build experience across modern AI engineering tools and patterns. The role is grounded in strong engineering fundamentals, with a focus on testing, documentation, and continuous learning under the technical direction of more senior engineers.
- Planning & Design: Contribute to design discussions for AI platform components and product features while learning from senior engineers, support the documentation of design decisions and technical patterns to ensure they are clear and reusable, and provide input on usability and developer experience improvements as part of the engineering team.
- Evaluation & Implementation: Support the build of AI platform components—including model integration, sandbox environments, workflows, and tooling—while contributing to AI‑first product delivery across frontend and backend tasks, integration testing, and bug fixes; develop and maintain automated tests across AI platform components and AI‑enabled products; and, under guidance, use agentic engineering tools to validate and deliver AI‑generated code with the same engineering discipline, rigour, and quality standards as hand‑written code.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Work closely with the AI Enablement Lead Engineer and AI Enablement Engineer as part of a collaborative, high‑quality engineering team, engage with internal users of AI platform components and sandbox environments to gather feedback and surface issues, and author and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and reference materials that enable safe adoption of AI tools and patterns across teams.
- Mentoring and Leadership: Build personal capability across the AI engineering toolchain through deliberate practice, structured learning, and hands-on contribution, while supporting the development of training content and the agentic engineering community of practice, and maintaining shared knowledge and reference materials as a single source of truth for AI tools, patterns, and policies.
About you
You are an early‑career software engineer with a strong foundation in modern engineering practices and a genuine interest in AI‑enabled systems. You bring 1–3 years of experience working in an agile DevOps environment (or equivalent experience through internships, open‑source contributions, or substantial personal projects), with working proficiency in Python and/or modern JavaScript/TypeScript and a commitment to writing clean, testable code. You are familiar with CI/CD concepts and tooling, source control practices, and testing approaches across unit, integration, and end‑to‑end levels, and you value test coverage as a core part of delivering quality software.
You are curious and motivated by modern AI engineering, with exposure to—or a strong desire to deepen your skills in—LLMs, RAG, agentic patterns, and related platforms and frameworks. You are enthusiastic about using agentic engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot or Claude Code, applying them with discipline, rigour, and accountability rather than as shortcuts. Comfortable working in a small, collaborative team, you communicate clearly, contribute to technical documentation, embrace pair programming and code review as key learning mechanisms, and demonstrate a strong continuous learning mindset, personal accountability, and openness to feedback from more senior engineers.
Our culture
Innovation powers progress, but it doesn’t come without support. To attract, retain, and develop talented people, we reward initiative and ingenuity, foster collaboration, and offer dynamic career development. At VicRoads, we embrace diversity and inclusion and we’re proud our workforce reflects the community we work for.
What we offer
- Salary packaging, Fitness Passport & discounts to hundreds of retailers
- Opportunities for professional and personal development
- Flexible working arrangements and family-friendly practices, including 16 weeks paid parental leave
How to apply
We encourage applications from people of all genders, backgrounds and communities.
If you need any adjustments to our recruitment process or the role itself, please let us know when applying.
Please submit your application .
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VicRoads is required to evidence your right to work in Australia and may ask for your consent to check records maintained by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection as well as records maintained by Victoria Police and VicRoads as part of the selection process. Information provided to VicRoads will be treated in the strictest confidence. Please note that due to legal requirements you must be predominantly located in Australia and for certain roles, predominantly located in Melbourne or Victoria.
