Principal Developer - AI

About Us

Fortescue is both a proud West Australian company and a global green solutions business. We are recognised for our culture, innovation and industry-leading development of infrastructure, mining assets and green energy initiatives.

Our Opportunity

Work Location: Perth – Fortescue’s Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people

Roster: Monday to Friday 

Fortescue is transforming its business through Artificial Intelligence, bringing our unique culture of innovation and leading through doing to transform our asset and employee productivity. The key mission of this role is to help develop early-stage innovation tools to support our mining operations as a part of the Mining Ops AI team.

We are looking for people who solve problems with code, not just develop to a specification. We are a top-notch, high-performing team; everyone is principal level. The right candidate will bring a deep understanding of software development and deployment to enable the transformation of operations-centric workflows using advanced decision-making techniques, including AI/ML. You’ll need a passion for delivering working software from concept design through to tangible value.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy software solutions that deliver measurable value to mining operations
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary, cross-functional team to rapidly prototype and deliver innovative tools
• Build and evolve both back-end and front-end systems, including APIs, services, and user interfaces
• Collaborate with stakeholders across operations, engineering, and data science to diagnose issues and deliver solutions at pace
• Maintain high standards of software quality by applying and promoting good engineering practices.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering/development roles with back-end and front-end exposure
• Familiarity with cloud and open-source platforms for back-end development (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes) and front-end development (TypeScript, React)
• Proficiency in programming languages such as C# and Python
• Experience in REST APIs, Webhooks, Git/Git Flow, and GitHub Actions
• Strong understanding of QA, testing methodologies, and CI/CD
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in agile methodologies and scrum-type delivery teams
• Interest in advanced operations decision-support systems using AI/ML and combinatorial optimisation
• Cloud application development
• Mining domain knowledge / dev experience
• Applied AI/ML experience
• Other advanced / unique skillsets are also highly valued, such as applied mathematics (optimisation, statistics), data science, geosciences, process engineering/control.

Our Commitment

Fortescue is deeply committed to providing a safe culture that builds respect, fosters inclusiveness, and values diversity. We celebrate individual strengths and team members from all backgrounds are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with across the world. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with differing abilities, LGBTIQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

https://fortescue.com/careers 

Internal Candidates / Current Contractors please apply via Success Factors Careers Portal. For further information on how to apply please visit the Fortescue Hub. 

Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. Fortescue will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.