Job Description
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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
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- Design, build and ship complex AI platforms, services and products that solve meaningful business problems at enterprise scale. /n
- Engineer robust LLM, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic and orchestration solutions, with reliability, evaluation, observability and governance built in from the start. /n
- Take AI capabilities from experimentation into production, including testing, deployment,



monitoring, incident response and continuous improvement. /n
- Lift engineering standards across prompt and context management, model evaluation, security, privacy, compliance and Responsible AI guardrails. /n
- Make practical trade-offs across model quality, latency, cost, risk and customer impact in fast-moving delivery environments. /n
- Partner with product, platform, data, risk, security and business teams to scale AI safely and sustainably. /n
- Review designs and code, mentor engineers and establish reusable patterns that accelerate safe production delivery. /n
- Lead technical investigations, root-cause analysis and durable fixes for complex AI system issues. /n /n Key Ingredients for Success /n /n
- Significant hands-on AI engineering experience gained in a complex corporate, technology or enterprise workplace. /n
- A strong record of delivering AI, machine learning or LLM-enabled systems that have been deployed, governed, monitored and operated in production. /n
- Solid software engineering foundations across Python, APIs, cloud services, distributed systems, CI/CD, automated testing and modern delivery practices. /n
- Deep practical experience with LLMs, RAG patterns, embeddings, agents, evaluation frameworks, orchestration, model lifecycle management and monitoring. /n
- Experience embedding safety,



privacy, compliance, explainability, reliability and operational risk controls into AI solutions. /n
- The ability to shape technical direction, raise engineering standards and bring stakeholders with you through ambiguity and change. /n
- 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. /n
- Engineering patterns are clear, reusable and adopted across teams. /n
- AI risks are identified and designed out early through strong architecture, governance and operating discipline. /n
- Systems are observable, resilient and continuously improved using real usage, feedback and performance data. /n
- 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 /n /n

📌 Senior AI Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 Westpac Group
📍 Sydney