Senior Software Automation Engineer (AI & IT Systems)

Posted:
2/18/2026, 1:31:18 PM

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
IT & Security ⋅ Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Remote

Why Join This Team 
This role offers broad influence across internal applications, operational systems, and enterprise environments, with clear ownership and growing technical leadership over time.  
Role Purpose 
The purpose of this role is to replace manual, process heavy workflows with scalable automation and AI powered systems that improve reliability and efficiency across Technology teams. 
Why You’ll Love Working Here 
At Appen, we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We value curiosity, accountability, and a commitment to delivering the highest quality AI solutions for frontier models. 
You’ll work on complex challenges that shape the future of AI across industries and geographies, alongside talented people in a culture that values humility over ego. You’ll have the flexibility to deliver in a way that works for you and your team, supported by tools, resources and development opportunities to continue to build your capability over time. 
 
About Appen 
Appen has been a leader in AI training data for over 30 years. We specialise in human generated data to train, fine tune, and evaluate models across generative AI, large language models, computer vision, and speech recognition. Our AI assisted data annotation platform and global crowd of more than 1 million contributors in over 200 countries support model pre training, supervised fine tuning, evaluation and benchmarking, safety and red teaming, and multilingual global expansion. 

Appen

Website: https://appen.com/

Headquarter Location: Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia

Employee Count: 101-250

Year Founded: 2011

IPO Status: Public

Industries: Artificial Intelligence (AI) ⋅ Crowdsourcing ⋅ Data Collection and Labeling ⋅ Enterprise Software ⋅ Social Media ⋅ Software ⋅ Translation Service