Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Platform), Australia-based, Full Relocation Provided

About the role

Imagine having the power to stress-test an entire power grid against a hurricane or thunderstorm before the clouds even gather. That is the reality we are creating at Neara.

We use advanced machine learning to create engineering-grade, physics enabled digital twins of electricity grids across four continents, this helps asset owners understand their biggest challenges and bring the most viable solutions to life across millions of kilometres of infrastructure.

By simulating extreme weather and structural stress at a network-wide scale, we empower the world’s largest utilities to pinpoint risks, optimise investments and build a more resilient global energy future.

Our team is a collection of brilliant minds who are fanatical about making a tangible difference in the real world, utilising AI and machine learning to accelerate everything from data classification to complex scenario analysis. We have built a special culture where innovation thrives because everyone owns the mission and we need smart, creative people to help us scale this impact to every corner of the globe.

This role is located in Sydney, Australia - A relocation package and visa sponsorship will be provided as part of the salary package.

The Staff Machine Learning Platform Engineer owns the infrastructure and systems that allow Neara's ML discipline to move fast, ship reliably, and scale without breaking.

Neara is conducting cutting edge research, developing multi-modal spatial frontier models. You will help the team run faster, helping overcome challenges that have never been seen before in the world. These models work with a range of less researched data types, including point cloud, geospatial data, and asset data. The lack of research maturity in the geospatial domain and novel nature of the problem presents unique challenges around performance, data unification, and deployment.

The problem and role stretch beyond pure research. These models will be deployed with our global utility and new vertical customers, delivering real value and increased climate resilience for critical infrastructure. Your role will be critical in both making sure we can develop frontier level spatial intelligence quickly and economically, but also in making sure we can deploy those models efficiently to our customers.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Own the ML platform strategy end-to-end - Define and drive the multi-year technical roadmap for training pipelines, serving architecture, experiment management, and monitoring systems that tie it all together.

- Build tooling that accelerates ML delivery - Develop foundational infrastructure that takes engineers from idea to production faster, standardising workflows and eliminating friction between experimentation and deployment.

- Solve hard distributed systems problems - Enable training across distributed data with residency and security requirements, while ensuring models run efficiently across varied GPU hardware, including sparse tensor implementations and architecture bottlenecks.