The Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia is seeking a technically skilled and innovative Court AI Technologist to support the design, development, implementation and optimisation of AI-enabled solutions.

The key duties of the position include:

The successful candidate will have strong technical, analytical and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated experience designing, configuring or supporting AI-enabled tools, automation, chatbot platforms, workflow solutions or related technologies.

The role will initially focus on the migration jurisdiction and will contribute to the delivery of a multilingual chatbot for court users and Microsoft Copilot AI Agents to automate high-volume administrative processes associated with migration applications.

This opportunity will appeal to candidates who want to:

• Build AI solutions with real public impact.
• Work on practical, high-value AI use cases, including chatbot technology and process automation.
• Apply Microsoft Copilot AI Agent capability in a complex operational environment.
• Contribute to access to justice by improving the experience of court users.
• Support responsible AI adoption within strong governance, privacy and security frameworks.
• Work with multidisciplinary teams, including operational, legal, technical and governance specialists.
• Develop scalable, user-centred digital services in a nationally significant public sector setting.
• Strengthen staff capability and service quality through automation and continuous improvement.

The role will work closely with operational staff, judicial support areas, content managers, subject matter experts, external suppliers and specialist shared services teams to ensure AI-enabled solutions are accurate, accessible, secure, scalable and aligned with Court operations and governance requirements.

Eligibility

Employment with the Court is subject to the conditions prescribed in the Public Service Act 1999, and the following:

• Australian citizenship – the successful applicant must hold Australian citizenship.
• Security and character clearance – the successful applicant must satisfy a Police Records Check and may also be required to complete security clearances during the course of their employment.
• Successful applicants engaged into the APS will be subject to a probation period.
• Interested candidates who have received a redundancy benefit from an APS agency are welcome to apply but note that they cannot be engaged until their redundancy benefit period has expired.

Diversity and inclusion

The Court is committed to supporting an inclusive and diverse workforce and welcomes and encourages applications from people with disability, First Nations people, LGBTIQA+ people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, mature age workers and young workers. The Court is committed to supporting an inter-generational workforce, gender equity and families.

The Court will provide reasonable adjustments for candidates to participate equitably in the recruitment process and discuss workplace adjustments to fulfil the inherent requirements of the role.

RecruitAbility applies to this vacancy. Under the RecruitAbility scheme you will be invited to participate in further assessment activity for the vacancy if you choose to apply under the scheme; declare you have a disability; and meet the minimum requirements for the job. For more information visit: https://www.apsc.gov.au/recruitability. This initiative/program is only applicable where the successful applicant will be employed under the Public Service Act 1999. Similar conditions may apply when employed under other Acts. For clarification please contact the advertising agency.