Full-Stack AI Engineer: Safe Intelligence & Protection

Westpac; Sydney, City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Westpac AI Services in Sydney, NSW, Australia, is seeking an AI Engineer to build safe intelligence and protection solutions. The role is based in Sydney/M Melbourne with hybrid working, collaborating across governed data, backend services, APIs, AI workflows and UX to deliver defined features within established designs and controls.

You will work to support authorised human decision-makers, ensuring data privacy and robust auditing, with responsibilities spanning testing, diagnostics and safe

Qualifications

• Experience in Financial Services AI engineering.
• Hands-on full-stack engineering across backend, APIs, data stores and modern web applications.
• Proficiency with Go or Python, SQL, TypeScript, React and Next.js.
• Working knowledge of identity, entitlements, durable state, audit, data lineage, data quality and access controls.
• Understanding of graph concepts including entities, relationships, bounded paths and evidence links.
• AI service skills across ML signals, LLMs, RAG, agents, evaluation, tool controls, monitoring and safe fallback.
• Ability to create clear review experiences showing evidence, sources, uncertainty, status and limitations.

Responsibilities

• Build, test, release and support features spanning data, services, APIs, AI workflows and user experiences.
• Preserve source references, lineage, access rules, time and data-quality information throughout assigned work.
• Show missing, stale, denied, incomplete and unavailable information honestly and clearly.
• Implement approved agent controls, bounded tools and evidence for material claims.
• Protect sensitive information by avoiding unnecessary copying, display or logging of personal data.
• Build automated tests, useful diagnostics and safe handling of errors, retries and recovery.

Skills

Financial services AI

Full-stack engineering

Go or Python

SQL

TypeScript & React

Data governance

AI safety & controls

Tools

Go

Python

SQL

TypeScript

React

Next.js

Job description

Westpac AI Services in Sydney, NSW, Australia, is seeking an AI Engineer to build safe intelligence and protection solutions. The role is based in Sydney/M Melbourne with hybrid working, collaborating across governed data, backend services, APIs, AI workflows and UX to deliver defined features within established designs and controls.

You will work to support authorised human decision-makers, ensuring data privacy and robust auditing, with responsibilities spanning testing, diagnostics and safe