Principal Engineer, Gen AI
Commonwealth Bank of Australia8 hours ago
Sydney, Australia or Melbourne, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for AI-model benchmarking, evaluation, serving, and intelligent-routing platforms.
- Design and build scalable infrastructure for engineering teams to use specialised and general-purpose AI models.
- Create measurement frameworks covering model quality, engineering performance, reliability, adoption, and cost.
- Establish responsible AI patterns and guardrails across software delivery, risk, and operational processes.
- Partner with platform, engineering, product, and risk teams to develop reusable capabilities.
- Evaluate emerging tools and approaches across performance, resilience, security, cost, and speed.
- Write production software, contribute to system design, and remain hands-on with complex technical problems.
- Mentor engineers, influence senior stakeholders, and build organisational capability through knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Deep platform, infrastructure, or software-engineering capability with practical exposure to machine-learning or AI systems.
- Experience leading complex engineering initiatives and setting technical strategy across multiple teams.
- Experience designing resilient cloud or platform services, including APIs, observability, automation, and CI/CD.
- Practical application of AI or machine learning to model selection, evaluation, benchmarking, or routing.
- Production software development experience with languages such as Python, TypeScript, Java, Go, or C#.
- Ability to design experiments and work with uncertain measures to produce meaningful, defensible evidence.
- Knowledge of secure engineering, reliability practices, and responsible AI controls.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-influencing skills, including explaining complex trade-offs clearly.
- Experience coaching engineers and improving organisational engineering standards and capability.
- A background in mathematics, statistics, physics, or engineering is valuable but not required; practical capability, learning agility, and sound technical judgement are prioritised.
Benefits
- Sydney or Melbourne location options.
- Flexible work locations and a flexible, inclusive workplace.
- Opportunity to shape a new organisation-wide generative AI engineering capability within the Chief AI Office.
- Work focused on measurable, safe, and scalable AI adoption across a major technology environment.
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About Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is an ASX-listed bank headquartered in Sydney that provides retail, business, and institutional banking, payments, and wealth services across Australia. Its offerings include transaction and savings accounts, home and business lending, cards, merchant services, digital banking, superannuation, and investment platforms such as CommSec. Founded in 1911, the bank serves millions of customers through branches, contact centres, and online channels.