Top Engineering Jobs in Melbourne

As R&D Director, you'll lead the ANZ R&D function, drive innovation, and build capabilities while collaborating with various departments to ensure operational readiness and regulatory compliance.

Lead and grow an engineering team building AI-powered internal security tooling and automation. Drive execution from planning to delivery, build infrastructure (Kubernetes, serverless, ETL), support incident response with threat-hunting tools, and partner with product teams to reduce risk through automation and security services. Mentor engineers and identify opportunities for automation and tooling.

Lead site capital projects (up to $5M) to improve productivity, safety and quality. Develop strategic capital plans and technology blueprint, provide candy-manufacturing technical expertise, integrate projects into operations, manage capital budget, and coach a small project engineering team.

12-week, on-site engineering internship at Boeing Aerostructures Australia for 2nd–4th year engineering students. Work on real manufacturing and corporate projects with a mentor, submit resume/transcripts/cover letter, and be available mid-late Nov 2026 to late Feb 2027 in Port Melbourne. Must have full unrestricted Australian work rights.

Lead and manage multiple engineering teams across Transfers, Client Treasury, and GTPN Infrastructure to define technical vision, deliver high-quality payment and treasury products, remove blockers, collaborate with product and design, measure product performance using data, and scale global payment infrastructure.

Lead and mentor engineers to design, build, and maintain scalable automation and onboarding systems. Implement AI/data-driven risk detection, collaborate with product/ops/compliance, drive architecture and reliability, and improve operational efficiency.

Lead Xero's shared Data Engineering function to execute data and platform strategy, deliver reliable self-service and AI-first data platforms, embed governance-by-design, improve observability and operational health, grow senior leadership, and enable domain teams through reusable platforms, patterns and guardrails.

The Design Manager oversees the design team for Defence projects, ensuring quality delivery and adherence to plans. They coordinate design activities, manage documentation, and maintain communication across projects.

Aurecon seeks to support veterans and their families by providing various career opportunities across diverse fields, including engineering and business operations, to help with their transition to civilian roles.

The Director of Engineering will lead the execution of engineering and capital strategies across the Asia-Pacific network, driving infrastructure performance and operational excellence while managing a high-performing team.

The Principal Engineer leads technical direction and governance for engineering outcomes in complex Defence programs, ensuring quality, regulatory compliance, and workforce development.

Lead multidisciplinary teams to design, implement, and deploy autonomy software for unmanned systems. Responsibilities include tactical autonomy algorithm design, high-performance C++ development, behavior architecture implementation, cross-functional integration with perception and hardware teams, and field testing and deployment on real platforms.

As an Engineering Manager, lead a team to enhance Xero's front end using modern technologies, focusing on team development and product delivery excellence.

The Engineering Manager will lead software delivery teams, champion AI workflows, resolve technical challenges, and enhance engineering practices to meet business goals.

The Graduate Program offers training and professional development, allowing graduates to work across various domains and gain practical experience in their field.

Design, build, and deploy production-grade AI solutions (agents, RAG, MCP servers). Analyse business processes, integrate APIs and cloud platforms, establish prompt engineering and developer standards, manage projects, and upskill client teams.

Lead a cloud engineering squad (Polaris) to deliver cost-efficient, compliant cloud operations. Drive roadmap delivery, maintain engineering and operational quality, grow a high-performing team through coaching and recruitment, and deliver automation, guidance and custodianship across platform services.

Lead the delivery of scalable data platforms, design robust data architectures, and provide technical leadership while collaborating with stakeholders to deliver impactful data solutions.

The Head of AI Engineering will lead and grow AI capabilities, mentor consultants, support client engagements, and ensure delivery excellence across AI-enabled products.

Lead mechanical and multidisciplinary building services design and delivery for complex projects across sectors (defence, health, aviation, data centres). Oversee technical quality, coordination, design reviews, and documentation; grow client relationships; drive business development; and mentor junior engineers to build the national building engineering capability.

Lead and develop data engineering teams to build trusted data products, pipelines and analytics for Financial Crime. Drive migration to cloud data platforms (AWS, Snowflake), improve data quality, lineage, controls, observability and DevSecOps practices, and partner with compliance, risk and business stakeholders to modernise analytics and enable AI/ML capabilities.

Own technical pre-sales and solution engineering: translate discovery into solution designs, scopes, estimates and SOWs; support proposals, demos, RFPs; coordinate specialists; build business cases; run demos/POCs and create playbooks to standardize pre-sales and sales-to-delivery handoffs.

Lead engineering teams to develop and manage Canva's Native Video Engine, focusing on video rendering, performance, and team growth.

The Endpoint Engineering Architect will create and maintain desktop environments, provide expert advice, mentor engineers, and support customer digital transformation initiatives.

Lead a team of data engineers to design, build, and maintain Databricks-based data platforms and pipelines on GCP. Ensure scalable, secure, governed data architectures supporting product, operational, regulatory, and analytics needs. Mentor engineers, contribute hands-on, integrate streaming and batch solutions, embed secure-by-design and data governance practices, and collaborate with Product, Cloud, DevOps, Security, and business stakeholders to deliver prioritized data products.