AI Product Engineer

IOOF Holdings Limited; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Insignia Financial is seeking an AI Product Engineer to join a newly established AI Product function. You’ll prototype, validate and shape AI capabilities across the business, turning ideas into prototypes and guiding what gets built next.

You'll work at the intersection of product, engineering and innovation, focusing on experimentation, technical discovery and responsible AI, privacy and security considerations. You’ll collaborate with the AI Product Lead and Data Scientist.

Qualifications

• Experience building prototypes and proofs of concept to validate new technologies
• Strong AI literacy with hands-on Generative AI, ML, automation experience
• Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into practical solutions

Responsibilities

• Rapidly prototype and test AI product concepts
• Assess feasibility, solution options and architecture approaches
• Translating product ideas into technical spikes, experiments and proofs of concepts
• Evaluating data, integration, security, operational and platform requirements

Skills

AI literacy

Generative AI

Machine learning

Automation

Job description

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SYDNEY, NSW, AU, 2000 HOBART, TAS, AU, 7000 MELBOURNE, VIC, AU, 3008

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time

• Help shape how AI capabilities are validated and scaled across the enterprise
• Join a newly established AI Product function with significant executive investment and visibility
• Influence major technology and investment decisions by testing, validating and proving what is possible

The opportunity to join our team

If you're excited by emerging technology, love solving difficult problems and enjoy building things to see what's possible, this role could be right up your alley.

At Insignia Financial, we're building a new AI Product capability that sits at the intersection of product, engineering and innovation. As an AI Product Engineer, you'll work on some of the most interesting AI opportunities across the business, turning ideas into prototypes, testing assumptions and helping shape what gets built next.

Unlike traditional engineering roles, this isn't about maintaining existing systems or working through a sprint backlog. It's about experimentation, technical discovery and solving complex problems before delivery begins. You'll have the opportunity to work with emerging AI technologies while influencing how AI capabilities evolve across the organisation.

What you'll Do

You'll play a key role in transforming ideas into validated AI solutions, helping the organisation make informed decisions about where and how to invest.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Rapidly prototyping and testing AI product concepts
• Assessing technical feasibility, solution options and architecture approaches
• Reducing technical uncertainty to improve decision making and outcomes
• Translating product ideas into technical spikes, experiments and proof of concepts
• Evaluating data, integration, security, operational and platform requirements
• Working closely with the AI Product Lead and Product Data Scientist to shape solution hypotheses
• Contributing to solution design and technology recommendations
• Helping determine whether opportunities should be built internally or solved through vendor solutions
• Embedding responsible AI, privacy, governance and security considerations into solution design
• Staying current with emerging AI technologies, platforms and industry trends

What You Bring to This Role

We're particularly interested in candidates who have worked with AI, Generative AI, machine learning or automation technologies and enjoy solving complex problems through experimentation, rapid prototyping and technical innovation.

You’ll bring:

• Experience building prototypes, proof of concepts or technical experiments that validate new technologies, products or ideas
• Strong AI literacy, with hands-on experience using or evaluating Generative AI, machine learning, automation or emerging technology capabilities
• The ability to quickly assess technical feasibility and translate ambiguous business problems into practical solution options
• Experience working across APIs, integrations, cloud platforms and modern technology environments
• Strong software engineering, solution engineering or technical design capability
• Experience evaluating technology products, platforms and vendor solutions, with the ability to understand strengths, limitations and implementation considerations
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a bias towards experimentation and evidence-based decision making
• The ability to communicate technical concepts and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• A curious mindset and a passion for exploring new technologies and challenging conventional approaches

Find the better way

What gets us excited about working here? Helping people feel good about their money as one of Australia's leading financial wellbeing organisations. From those starting out to those retiring. As your team, we'll show up for you and together we will create financial wellbeing for every Australian. Because we know people who are confident about their financial future live better lives.

If this sounds like your kind of career, you sound like our kind of person. With us, you'll do work that builds your technical know-how and challenges our entire industry to move forward. Along the way, you'll be free to explore new ideas and technology, solve problems in a team, and independently to get great things done. Around here, we like to call it "putting our fingerprints on the future".

People-inspired tech

Deep expertise combined with creativity can take on the trickiest of problems. Join our team of brilliant minds and mentors as we explore our way to innovation and apply technology in more human ways than ever.

Applicants will be required to provide evidence of their eligibility to work in Australia, and at a minimum be required to undertake police and basic credit checks as a condition of employment.

Please note that applications from agencies will not be considered at this time.

We acknowledge and celebrate the richness that individual differences bring to our team. If you need assistance or an adjustment during the application process, please reach out and let us know.