1 month ago
Sydney, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Architect and engineer production-grade LLM, RAG, agentic, and machine-learning systems.
- Write and review code, test assumptions, lead investigations, and unblock critical delivery.
- Create reusable platforms, reference architectures, guardrails, and golden paths for multiple teams.
- Balance model quality, latency, resilience, cost, security, privacy, risk, and customer impact.
- Embed evaluation, observability, testing, responsible AI, and operational readiness into systems.
- Coach engineers through code reviews, design reviews, pairing, and practical technical leadership.
- Influence engineering, product, architecture, data, security, and risk partners without formal authority.
- Set adopted standards and grow engineering capability across teams and technical domains.
Requirements
- Deep hands-on AI engineering experience in a large, complex, or regulated environment.
- Principal, Staff, Lead, or equivalent experience influencing across teams and technical domains.
- Proven delivery and operation of AI, ML, or LLM-enabled systems at production scale, beyond proofs of concept.
- Strong Python, APIs, distributed systems, cloud, containers, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and secure engineering capability.
- Practical expertise in LLMs, RAG, embeddings, agents, orchestration, evaluation, context management, and AI observability.
- Exceptional business acumen and stakeholder management skills at all levels.
- Sound judgment across AI failure modes, responsible AI, security, privacy, reliability, and operational risk.
- Track record of simplifying ambiguity, setting adopted standards, and growing engineering capability.
Benefits
- Sydney-based role with hybrid working.
- Supportive and inclusive community with added support for veterans, Indigenous Australians, and neurodiverse people.
- Accessibility adjustments are available during the recruitment process.
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About Westpac
Westpac is an Australian banking group that provides retail, business, and institutional banking, payments, and wealth/insurance services to consumers and enterprises. Founded in 1817 and headquartered in Sydney, it operates across Australia and New Zealand under brands including Westpac, St.George, BankSA, Bank of Melbourne, BT Financial Group, and RAMS. Its business model centers on deposit-taking, lending, and financial services fees delivered via branches, digital channels, and partner networks.