AI Engineer - Production AI for Enterprise (Sydney Hybrid)

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

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