About BHP 

At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.

Come and be a part of this success.

About the Team

HR is building a new intelligence capability to change how we understand our workforce and make decisions about our people.

Our ambition is to move beyond reporting what has happened. We want to understand why it is happening, what is likely to happen next, and where we should act. That means combining workforce data, behavioural science, advanced analytics and AI to tackle some of the most important questions facing HR and the business.

As part of our Workforce Intelligence team, you will help build this capability and embed it directly into the way HR operates. You will work at the intersection of people, data, technology and decision-making, turning complex workforce questions into intelligence leaders can act on.

This is an opportunity for someone who enjoys solving hard problems, is technically curious, and wants to help shape how AI and advanced analytics are used in HR.

About the Role

We are looking for two AI Engineers to help turn emerging possibilities in AI into real, reliable capabilities that HR can use.

The opportunity is broader than building chatbots or experimenting with prompts. We are developing AI agents and intelligent workflows that can work across enterprise data and knowledge, undertake research and analytical tasks, apply HR concepts, interact with other systems and help people make better decisions.

Some problems will call for strong software engineering. Others will require agent orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, data engineering, model integration or experimentation with new AI patterns. We don't expect every engineer to be equally deep in all of these areas, and we are deliberately interested in people who may bring different but complementary technical strengths.

You will work alongside Data Engineers, Intelligence Partners, Digital Product capability and enterprise Technology teams to take promising ideas from experimentation into controlled, scalable products.

You will:

• Design, build and improve AI agents and AI-enabled applications that address real HR and workforce problems.
• Develop agentic workflows that can retrieve information, use tools and enterprise data, perform analytical or research tasks, and support human decision-making.
• Build the software, APIs and integrations required to connect AI capabilities with governed enterprise data and systems.
• Experiment with approaches such as retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, structured reasoning, orchestration and multi-agent patterns where they provide genuine value.
• Develop systematic approaches to AI evaluation, testing and monitoring, including assessing accuracy, reliability and behaviour rather than relying on demonstration alone.
• Work with Data Engineers to make effective use of governed data, metrics and semantic foundations rather than recreating business logic within individual AI applications.
• Engineer the controls needed to move AI from prototype into production, including security, observability, access, auditability and responsible-AI requirements.
• Help establish reusable AI engineering patterns so successful approaches can be extended across HR rather than rebuilt for each individual use case.

These roles offer significant room to shape your technical focus. We are more interested in assembling strong, complementary AI engineering capability than finding two people with identical backgrounds.

About You

We are looking for builders who have moved beyond simply using generative AI tools and have started working seriously with the engineering behind them. There isn't one perfect background for this role. You might come from software engineering, machine learning, data engineering, applied AI or another technical discipline. You will ideally bring a strong combination of:

• Hands-on programming capability, particularly in Python or comparable languages, and good software-engineering fundamentals.
• Experience building applications or workflows using LLMs and modern AI platforms, rather than only consuming packaged AI tools.
• Experience in one or more areas such as AI agents, orchestration, RAG, tool/function calling, model APIs, evaluation, ML engineering, data engineering or AI application development.
• An understanding of how enterprise AI applications need to interact with data, APIs, identity, permissions and existing technology environments.
• Experience testing AI systems and thinking critically about whether an AI application is actually accurate, reliable and useful.
• The ability to move between experimentation and engineering, rapidly testing an idea but knowing what needs to change before it can operate reliably in production.
• A practical understanding of responsible AI, particularly privacy, security, access controls, human oversight and the risks associated with using sensitive enterprise data.
• Curiosity about emerging AI technologies and the judgement to distinguish genuinely useful new capabilities from hype.

Experience with technologies such as Azure AI, Microsoft Foundry, Snowflake Cortex or comparable AI and cloud platforms would be valuable, but we don't require experience in a particular technology stack. You don't need deep HR experience. We are looking for strong technical people who want to apply their capabilities to difficult, meaningful workforce problems and help build an AI capability from the ground up.

About Our Process 

At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Charter Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks. 

If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in using your BHP email address or apply via our internal jobs portal. 

Supporting a Diverse Workforce  

The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.  

At BHP, we know that we are strengthened by diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity employer that is committed to making BHP a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every day. We are focused on creating a workforce that’s more diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.

BHP is committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all. If you have a disability, we know that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. If you would like to reach out to someone about your situation and our recruitment process, please email us at inclusion@bhp.com.