The role reports to the Head of Intelligent Automation and works closely with engineers, clinical specialists, and operational staff.
Key responsibilities
You will be responsible for designing, building, and deploying production AI solutions that address real clinical and operational problems at RCH — spanning revenue integrity, clinical workflow, diagnostic support, surveillance, and service design.
You will work across the full pipeline, from evaluating whether an AI-based approach is suitable for a problem, through designing the appropriate orchestration architecture, to building and delivering the end product.
You will join a small team that operates with a high degree of autonomy and collective ownership, working together to move AI from validated concept through to production.
This role's classification is AO71 to AO75 ($114,***** - $124,****** per annum pro rata,



plus super).
What you need
Tertiary qualifications in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, and/or significant relevant industry experience.
Demonstrated experience building and deploying production software systems, with robust capability across backend development, API design, and at least one of frontend development or infrastructure.
Practical experience with AI orchestration in a production context, including prompt engineering, multi-step prompt chains, agent architectures, retrieval-augmented generation, or hybrid systems combining AI with deterministic logic.
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📌 Ai Product Engineer (Melbourne)
🏢 Royal Children's Hospital
📍 Melbourne