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AI courses and bootcamps in Melbourne

Square1 Ai is an online school. Its 27 live bootcamps run for twelve weeks on Zoom with one instructor and 10 projects you keep, from A$200; self-paced courses start at A$45. Australian cohorts meet on weekday evenings from 6:30 PM Sydney time, which is 6:30 PM Melbourne time, with full-day sessions at weekends, so you can learn from anywhere in Melbourne while you work.

A$200Live bootcamps
6:30 PM Sydney timeWeekday sessions start
12 weeksLive, 10 projects you keep

Founding price, half the A$400 standard, until 1 December. Self-paced courses from A$45.

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What AI and tech roles pay in Melbourne

Annual base salary in Melbourne, from Payscale's Melbourne pages (read 29 October 2026). The range is the middle half of reported salaries, and each row shows how many salary profiles it rests on.

What AI and tech roles pay in Melbourne
RoleMedian a yearMiddle halfTrain for it
Solutions architectPayscale51 salary profilesA$162,600A$130,900 to A$187,300Forward Deployed Engineer
Senior software engineerPayscale185 salary profilesA$135,100A$120,900 to A$150,600Claude Code for Engineering, Codex for Software Engineering
DevOps engineerPayscale24 salary profilesA$115,000A$88,200 to A$122,700LLMOps, Cloud Engineer with AI
Data engineerPayscale58 salary profilesA$114,700A$87,700 to A$127,600Data Engineering with AI
Data scientistPayscale70 salary profilesA$101,000A$84,000 to A$125,900Data Science
Machine learning engineerPayscale21 salary profilesA$100,000A$80,000 to A$114,600ML Engineer
Software engineerPayscale254 salary profilesA$95,200A$79,300 to A$114,200Software Engineering with AI, Claude Code for Engineering, Codex for Software Engineering
Full stack developerPayscale42 salary profilesA$88,200A$72,700 to A$111,800Software Engineering with AI

Salaries are what employers in Melbourne report paying, not what Square1 Ai students earn: the first cohorts have not graduated.

Live bootcamps

Bootcamps that fit a working week in Melbourne.

Twelve weeks each, weekday evenings and weekend days, 25 spots a cohort. Reserving a seat holds the founding price.

Gen AI BootcampBuild and ship LLM products: prompting, retrieval, agents, evals, production.A$200See the bootcampAgentic AI BootcampMulti-agent systems that plan, coordinate and run in production.A$200See the bootcampRAG and Search Engineering BootcampRetrieval that actually finds the right thing, measured, at scale.A$200See the bootcampVoice AI Agents BootcampPhone and in-app voice agents that hold a conversation and complete a task.A$200See the bootcampML Engineer BootcampTrain, evaluate and serve models that pass contract tests, not notebooks that run once.A$200See the bootcampComputer Vision BootcampFrom pixels to a deployed vision pipeline you can explain line by line.A$200See the bootcampFine-Tuning and Open-Weights BootcampPost-train, evaluate and deploy your own model for a real task.A$200See the bootcampPhysical AI and Robotics BootcampPerception, control and simulation for machines that move.A$200See the bootcampData Science BootcampFrom messy data to a decision a business acts on, six times.A$200See the bootcampData Engineering with AI BootcampPipelines, warehouses and quality checks, with agents doing the grunt work.A$200See the bootcampData Analyst with AI BootcampSQL, dashboards and AI-assisted analysis that answer a manager's question with evidence.A$200See the bootcampAnalytics Engineer BootcampSQL, modelling and AI-assisted analysis that a finance team trusts.A$200See the bootcampCodex for Software Engineering BootcampBuild and maintain real codebases with Codex as the pair, from spec to release.A$200See the bootcampForward Deployed Engineer BootcampDeploy AI systems inside a customer's walls and hand them over running.A$200See the bootcampClaude Code for Engineering BootcampRun an engineering workflow where Claude Code writes, tests and ships under your review.A$200See the bootcampSoftware Engineering with AI BootcampShip a full-stack product with coding agents, then prove the defect is fixed.A$200See the bootcampLLMOps BootcampServe, observe and pay for LLMs in production without surprises.A$200See the bootcampLLM Evals and Reliability BootcampMake an AI system you can trust: evals, guardrails, monitoring, incident review.A$200See the bootcampCybersecurity BootcampFind the vulnerability, prove it against a withheld key, fix it.A$200See the bootcampAI Security and Red-Teaming BootcampAttack and defend LLM applications: prompt injection, data exfiltration, model abuse.A$200See the bootcampCloud Security Engineer BootcampSecure AWS, Azure and Kubernetes the way a cloud security team does: find it, fix it, prove it.A$200See the bootcampAI Automation Engineer BootcampReplace six manual business processes with agents and automation that keep running.A$200See the bootcampGTM Engineer BootcampBuild the outbound machine: data, enrichment, automation, CRM, attribution.A$200See the bootcampAI Sales Engineer BootcampRun the technical side of an AI sale: discovery, demo, proof of concept.A$200See the bootcampAI Product Manager BootcampDecide what an AI product should do, prove it with evals, and ship it.A$200See the bootcampAI Founder BootcampGo from idea to a launched AI product with paying users in twelve weeks.A$200See the bootcampCloud Engineer with AI BootcampDesign, deploy and run cloud systems with AI doing the toil.A$200See the bootcamp
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AI courses in Melbourne, side by side

AI and data courses taught in Melbourne, or online by Melbourne's own universities and institutes, with their length, how they are taught and the fee each provider lists.

AI courses in Melbourne, side by side
CourseLengthHow it is taughtFee
Generative AIRMIT Online8 weeksOnlineA$1,000 incl. GST
AI Programming with PythonRMIT Online (with Udacity)12 weeks, 4 to 6 hours a weekOnlineA$1,600 incl. GST
AI for Business LeadersRMIT Online4 weeksOnlineA$750 incl. GST
Live AI bootcamps (27 tracks)Square1 Ai12 weeks, about 15 hours a weekLive online, weekday evenings from 6:30 PM Melbourne time and weekend daysA$200 (founding price)

Fees and lengths as each provider lists them on its own site, checked 29 October 2026. Ask the provider for the current intake before you pay.

Your options

Four ways to learn AI in Melbourne

Each fits a different person. The right one depends on whether you need a recognised qualification, a subsidy, a university name or a portfolio.

  1. Route 1

    A degree or postgraduate course

    Fits when You want a formal qualification, a pathway to a visa, or the theory in depth.

    Watch for Years of study and tens of thousands of dollars; check how much of it uses the tools teams work with now.

  2. Route 2

    A TAFE certificate

    Fits when You want a nationally recognised IT qualification, often at a subsidised price in your state.

    Watch for Check what you would pay without a subsidy, and whether you build real projects or mostly complete assessments.

  3. Route 3

    A university short course

    Fits when You want a university or industry name on a short course, online.

    Watch for Most are a few weeks and teach concepts; ask whether you build and deploy something.

  4. Route 4

    A live online bootcamp

    Fits when You are working and want a job-shaped portfolio in twelve weeks, taught live on Sydney evenings.

    Watch for Square1 Ai's bootcamps are new and not accredited: the first cohorts have not graduated, so there is no placement rate yet.

Questions

Questions people in Melbourne ask

Which AI course is best in Melbourne?

It depends on what you need. RMIT Online's Generative AI lists A$1,000 incl. GST; RMIT Online (with Udacity)'s AI Programming with Python lists A$1,600 incl. GST; the table above lists each one's length and fee. If you are working and want a portfolio an employer can open and run, Square1 Ai's twelve-week live bootcamps are A$200 at the founding price.

Is there a classroom AI course in Melbourne?

Yes: the table above names the Melbourne providers that teach on campus. Square1 Ai is not one of them. It teaches live online only, on weekday evenings from 6:30 PM Melbourne time with full-day sessions at weekends, so you join from home or the office in the CBD, Docklands, Richmond or Cremorne.

How much does an AI course cost in Melbourne?

A Square1 Ai live AI bootcamp is A$200, the founding price until 1 December, and a self-paced course is A$45. The table above has each Melbourne provider's fee as its own site lists it.

What does a software engineer earn in Melbourne?

Payscale puts the median base salary for a software engineer in Melbourne at A$95,200 a year, with the middle half between A$79,300 and A$114,200, from 254 salary profiles. The best-paid role in the table is solutions architect, at a A$162,600 median.

Why learn AI in Melbourne now?

By 2035, Victoria will need 87,700 additional digital workers, and workers in all industries will need digital skills (Victorian Government, 2026). Victoria expects 19,300 new workers in digital technology occupations over 2025-28, with cloud and AI take-up by businesses driving the need for more data centres (Victorian Skills Plan, 2026).

Is it a nationally recognised qualification, and can I use government funding?

No. Square1 Ai is not a registered training organisation, so its bootcamps are not nationally recognised qualifications and are not eligible for government funding, fee-free TAFE places or VET Student Loans. You get 10 deployed projects and a recorded defence of your work, not a certificate under the AQF.

Does the bootcamp guarantee a job?

No. No placement rate is published because the first cohorts have not graduated. You leave with 10 projects an employer can open and run, a recorded defence of your work, and a hiring plan worked through with your instructor.

How do I pay?

Reserving a seat is free and takes your name, email and country. Nothing is charged until the start date is confirmed and you say yes.

25 spots a cohort. Hold one from Melbourne.

Pick a bootcamp, reserve with your name and email, and hear the start date first. Nothing is charged until you confirm.

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