Head of AI Science - Production-Grade AI Lead (Sydney)

NAB; Melbourne; Presencial; AUD 250.000 - 300.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da vaga

NAB’s AI team is seeking a hands-on Head of AI Science to lead the development of next-generation AI capabilities. You will shape architecture and production-grade AI solutions across the enterprise, working with AI engineers, product leaders, and domain experts in Melbourne or Sydney.

This role blends deep technical leadership with practical delivery, focusing on safe, reliable, scalable systems and measurable business outcomes for NAB customers and the business.

Qualificações

• Deep expertise in LLMs, agentic systems, and retrieval-augmented generation.
• Proven experience designing and deploying AI systems in production environments.
• Strong hands-on background in machine learning, with depth in optimisation or reinforcement learning.
• Solid foundations in statistics, probability, and experimental design.
• Experience leading or mentoring high-performing data science teams.
• Ability to operate across AI research and engineering implementation.
• Strong communication skills to translate complex concepts into business impact.

Responsabilidades

• Architect and design agent-based AI systems powering NAB’s core AI products.
• Define prompting strategies, orchestration patterns, and context management approaches.
• Lead technical design decisions ensuring AI systems are safe, accurate, and reliable.
• Translate AI architecture into production systems in partnership with engineering teams.
• Drive delivery of advanced AI solutions through a high-performing data science team.
• Collaborate across product, engineering, and business to deliver measurable outcomes.
• Champion innovation through experimentation and continuous improvement.

Conhecimentos

LLMs

Agentic systems

Prompt engineering

Retrieval augmentation

Production AI

Machine learning

Optimization

Reinforcement learning

Statistics

Experimental design

Team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Formação

Computer Science

Mathematics

Statistics

Related field

Descrição da vaga

NAB’s AI team is seeking a hands-on Head of AI Science to lead the development of next-generation AI capabilities. You will shape architecture and production-grade AI solutions across the enterprise, working with AI engineers, product leaders, and domain experts in Melbourne or Sydney.

This role blends deep technical leadership with practical delivery, focusing on safe, reliable, scalable systems and measurable business outcomes for NAB customers and the business.