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- Sydney Location / Hybrid Working /n
- Move beyond prototypes and help turn bold ideas into secure, scalable enterprise capability.

/n /n /n Are you ready to help shape how AI is engineered, governed and scaled? /n Westpac is accelerating the future of banking through responsible, human-centred AI. We are looking for a senior, hands-on AI Engineer to complement the Chief AI Innovation Office within Data, Digital & AI, a team shaping how advanced analytics, digital platforms and AI are engineered, governed and scaled across a large and complex enterprise. /n This is an opportunity to bring your technical depth to high-impact work, influence enterprise engineering standards and help teams move promising ideas into reliable production services. /n Your role /n You will design, build, test, harden and operate AI capabilities that are safe, reliable and ready for enterprise use. This is a practitioner role for someone who enjoys solving difficult engineering problems, making thoughtful trade-offs and staying close to the code and production environment. /n You will lead through technical credibility and influence.

You will guide others, strengthen reusable engineering patterns and help ensure AI is delivered responsibly from concept through to production. /n Key responsibilities /n /n

- Design, build and ship complex AI platforms, services and products that solve meaningful business problems at enterprise scale.

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- Engineer robust LLM, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic and orchestration solutions, with reliability, evaluation, observability and governance built in from the start.

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- Take AI capabilities from experimentation into production, including testing, deployment, monitoring,



incident response and continuous improvement.

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- Lift engineering standards across prompt and context management, model evaluation, security, privacy, compliance and Responsible AI guardrails.

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- Make practical trade-offs across model quality, latency, cost, risk and customer impact in fast-moving delivery environments.

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- Partner with product, platform, data, risk, security and business teams to scale AI safely and sustainably.

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- Review designs and code, mentor engineers and establish reusable patterns that accelerate safe production delivery.

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- Lead technical investigations, root-cause analysis and durable fixes for complex AI system issues.

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- Significant hands-on AI engineering experience gained in a complex corporate, technology or enterprise environment.

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- A strong record of delivering AI, machine learning or LLM-enabled systems that have been deployed, governed, monitored and operated in production.

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- Solid software engineering foundations across Python, APIs, cloud services, distributed systems, CI/CD, automated testing and up-to-date delivery practices.

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- Deep practical experience with LLMs, RAG patterns, embeddings, agents, evaluation frameworks, orchestration, model lifecycle management and monitoring.

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- Experience embedding safety, privacy,



compliance, explainability, reliability and operational risk controls into AI solutions.

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- The ability to shape technical direction, raise engineering standards and bring stakeholders with you through ambiguity and change.

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- Clear communication skills across engineering, product, delivery, risk and senior stakeholder audiences.

/n /n What Success will look like /n /n

- AI solutions progress beyond prototypes to become trusted, secure and production-ready enterprise capabilities.

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- Engineering patterns are clear, reusable and adopted across teams.

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- AI risks are identified and designed out early through strong architecture, governance and operating discipline.

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- Systems are observable, resilient and continuously improved using real usage, feedback and performance data.

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- Engineers around you grow through practical mentoring, thoughtful design review and strong technical examples.

/n /n Does this sound like you? /n To get started, simply click on the APPLY or APPLYNOW button. Please note that application closing dates are subject to change so don’t delay putting your best foot forward! /n We’re all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone – no matter your age, gender, background, or abilities.

We also provide added support to welcome our veterans, Indigenous Australians, and neurodiverse community. /n If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, you can find out more information and additional contact details by visiting the "People with Disability and/or needing Accessibility Requirements" page on our website. /n /n

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📌 Senior AI Engineer - AI Innovation Office (Sydney)
🏢 Westpac Group
📍 Sydney