Westpac

Senior AI Engineer - AI Innovation Office ...

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15 days ago
Sydney, AustraliaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, test, and ship complex AI platforms, services, and products for enterprise-scale business problems.
  • Engineer LLM, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic, and orchestration solutions with reliability, evaluation, observability, and governance built in.
  • Take AI capabilities from experimentation into production through testing, deployment, monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement.
  • Strengthen engineering standards for prompt and context management, model evaluation, security, privacy, compliance, and Responsible AI guardrails.
  • Partner with product, platform, data, risk, security, and business teams to scale AI safely and sustainably.
  • Review designs and code, mentor engineers, establish reusable patterns, and lead technical investigations and root-cause analysis.

Requirements

  • Significant hands-on AI engineering experience in a complex corporate, technology, or enterprise environment.
  • Demonstrated delivery of AI, machine learning, or LLM-enabled systems deployed, governed, monitored, and operated in production.
  • Strong software engineering foundations across Python, APIs, cloud services, distributed systems, automated testing, and modern delivery practices.
  • Deep practical experience with LLMs, RAG patterns, embeddings, agents, evaluation frameworks, orchestration, model lifecycle management, and monitoring.
  • Experience embedding safety, privacy, compliance, explainability, reliability, and operational risk controls into AI solutions.
  • Ability to shape technical direction, raise engineering standards, communicate clearly with varied stakeholders, and guide others through ambiguity and change.

Benefits

  • Sydney location with hybrid working.
  • Supportive and inclusive community with accessibility support available during the recruitment process.

Tech Stack

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About Westpac

10,000+ employees

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.

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