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Healthtech is one of the fastest-growing engineering markets in Australia. Re:Sourced runs senior search for clinical software, telehealth, diagnostics, AI in radiology, and biotech tools, with specific expertise in privacy and regulatory contexts.
The Australian healthtech market
Healthtech in Australia spans clinical software (Genie, MedicalDirector, Best Practice), telehealth (Eucalyptus, InstantScripts, Mosh), diagnostics and AI (Harrison.AI, Annalise.AI, A2 Optics, Maxwell Plus), and biotech tools.
Privacy, regulatory accreditation and clinical safety drive engineering tooling and process more than in most sectors. Senior engineers with prior healthtech context are scarce; building a healthtech-tilted shortlist often requires deep network reach.
Most-recruited healthtech roles
Salary bands 2026
Sydney base salary bands for the disciplines healthtech teams hire most, drawn from our Salary Guide 2026.
| Discipline | Senior base | Principal base |
|---|---|---|
| Software engineer | AUD 160-190k | AUD 190-225k |
| Data engineer | AUD 160-190k | AUD 195-250k |
| Cyber engineer | AUD 170-200k | AUD 200-240k |
| AI / ML engineer | AUD 180-220k | AUD 220-260k |
Melbourne runs roughly 3-5% below Sydney for like-for-like senior roles; Brisbane roughly 10% below.
Base only. 25th-75th percentile of accepted offers. Full Salary Guide 2026 ->
Hiring in healthtech
Health data carries regulatory weight that most engineering teams never meet. Engineers in healthtech work under the Privacy Act and, where relevant, the My Health Record framework, so privacy-by-design, interoperability and careful handling of clinical and claims data are part of the job description, not a compliance afterthought.
The talent pools overlap with regulated financial services, private health insurers and hospital networks. A reliable pattern is AppSec engineers moving from financial services into health for mission and ownership, which makes the mission a real part of the offer.
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Protecting clinical and patient systems.
Clinical, claims and patient data.
Bands by discipline, seniority and city.
The 2026 hiring guide.
The all-in cost of a senior engineer.
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Common questions
Senior software engineers in Sydney price at AUD 160-190k base, senior data engineers at AUD 160-190k, cyber engineers at AUD 170-200k and senior AI and ML engineers at AUD 180-220k.
Security engineers who understand health-data obligations, and data engineers who can build clinical and claims pipelines with privacy and interoperability in mind.
Our median is 21 days from brief to signed offer, with no fee until placement and a 90-day replacement guarantee.
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