Gen AI Data Scientist - Build Responsible AI at Scale

Narooma; Sydney; Remote; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Job summary

CommBank's Retail Banking Services seeks a Data Scientist in Gen AI to build production-ready generative and agentic AI solutions that enhance customer experiences, and to deploy these models across digital channels with governance and safety controls.

You will work with cross-functional teams to evaluate, monitor and scale AI across platforms, ensuring explainability and compliance while delivering measurable business impact.

Qualifications

• A tertiary qualification in data science, statistics, computer science, engineering or equivalent experience.
• Strong Python and SQL skills.
• Hands-on experience with large language models, agent frameworks, vector stores and cloud AI.
• Experience deploying generative AI in production, ideally in regulated environments.
• Knowledge of responsible AI, privacy and model-risk controls.
• Ability to explain model behaviour to diverse audiences.
• Experience working in agile, cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy generative AI and agentic AI solutions improving customer experiences.
• Design retrieval-augmented generation, conversational assistants and drafting tools.
• Engineer prompts, system instructions and retrieval pipelines.
• Create evaluation harnesses and datasets for grounding, accuracy and cost.
• Select and tune models balancing quality, cost and latency.
• Apply responsible AI controls including risk governance and safety testing.
• Collaborate with engineering to deploy, monitor, guardrails and telemetry.

Skills

Hands-on data science

Strong Python & SQL

Agile teams

Production ML experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in data science, statistics, CS, engineering or equivalent

Tools

Python

SQL

LLM frameworks

vector stores

cloud AI platforms

Job description

CommBank's Retail Banking Services seeks a Data Scientist in Gen AI to build production-ready generative and agentic AI solutions that enhance customer experiences, and to deploy these models across digital channels with governance and safety controls.

You will work with cross-functional teams to evaluate, monitor and scale AI across platforms, ensuring explainability and compliance while delivering measurable business impact.