AI Engineer x 2 (AI Innovation Office)

• Sydney Location / Hybrid Working.
• Work with some of the brightest minds in the AI space.

What is the opportunity

At Westpac were building responsible human-centred AI at enterprise scale and were looking for hands-on AI Engineers who can turn ideas into secure scalable production-ready solutions.

Youll join our Data Digital & AI function and work with the Westpac Chief AI Innovation Office to build practical AI capability across technology data risk security product and business teams.

This is an engineering-first role for people who can design code integrate test and operationalise AI applications services agents and platforms beyond proofs of concept.

Youll bring strong software engineering fundamentals practical AI/ML experience and the judgement to deliver safely in a complex regulated enterprise environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design build and ship production-ready AI applications services agents and internal tools.
• Integrate foundation models ML models RAG vector stores and AI services into secure enterprise workflows.
• Build pipelines for prompt management model invocation grounding validation and evaluation.
• Embed security privacy compliance model risk and responsible AI guardrails from design to delivery.
• Build testing evaluation monitoring and feedback loops for quality performance safety and cost.
• Optimise latency reliability and cost across AI workloads.
• Collaborate with product data risk security and platform teams to clarify requirements surface trade-offs and align priorities for delivery.

Essential Ingredients

• Hands-on AI engineering experience in large complex corporate or regulated environments.
• Ability to deal effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels.
• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant technology engineering computer science data or related discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong software engineering background across backend services APIs and production systems.
• Practical experience operationalising LLM ML or AI services beyond prototypes or academic projects.
• Hands-on knowledge of RAG embeddings vector databases orchestration and model evaluation.
• Experience with cloud CI/CD automated testing observability and enterprise release practices.
• Understanding of prompt design evaluation safety testing and responsible AI practices.
• Ability to balance experimentation speed with engineering quality and safety.
• Comfortable working with diverse stakeholders to triage requests communicate constraints and prioritise work based on impact and risk.

Why join us

Were obsessed with becoming our customers #1 banking partner for life and were looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that return were committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country.

Here are just a few of the ways were already doing that:

• Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands including generous employee-only mortgage rates!
• Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance and a variety of leave options including Culture Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
• Tailored learning and development opportunities to help grow your career within the bank.
• Lots of opportunities to give back to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.

Create your future today!

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Were all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone no matter your age gender background or abilities. We also provide additional support to welcome our veterans Indigenous Australians and neurodiverse community.

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