AI Engineer – AI Innovation Office ... Westpac Group

Women In Digital International; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Westpac is seeking hands-on AI Engineers to design, build, and operate production-ready AI applications, services, and platforms in a hybrid Sydney setting. You’ll join the Data, Digital & AI function to deliver practical AI capability across technology, data, risk, security, product and business teams.

You’ll work on integrating foundation models, ML models, RAG, and vector stores, building pipelines for prompt management, and embedding guardrails for compliant, secure AI in a regulated

Qualifications

• Hands-on AI engineering experience in large, complex corporate or regulated environments.
• Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels.
• Tertiary qualifications in technology, engineering, CS, data or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong software engineering background across backend services, APIs and production systems.
• 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.

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.
• Optimize 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.

Skills

Hands-on AI engineering experience

Stakeholder communication

Backend services development

Education

Tertiary qualification in technology/CS/engineering

Tools

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Observability

Job description

• Sydney Location / Hybrid Working.

What is the opportunity?

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

You’ll 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.

You’ll 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.

Create your future today!

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