Hybrid AI Engineer — Production‑Ready, Enterprise‑Scale

Westpac; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Westpac in Sydney is pursuing responsible, human-centred AI at enterprise scale and seeks hands-on AI Engineers to design, code, test, and deploy production-ready AI applications, services and platforms in a regulated environment.

You’ll join our Data, Digital & AI function and work with the Westpac Chief AI Innovation Office to build practical AI capability across technology, data, risk, security, product and business teams.

Qualifications

• Hands-on AI engineering experience in large, regulated environments.
• Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels.
• Tertiary qualification or equivalent practical experience in a relevant field.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and ship production-ready AI applications, services and tools.
• Integrate foundation models, ML models, RAG and vector stores into enterprise workflows.
• Build pipelines for prompt management, model invocation, grounding and evaluation.
• Embed security, privacy, compliance and guardrails from design to delivery.
• Build testing, monitoring and feedback loops for quality and cost.

Skills

Hands-on AI eng

Cloud & CI/CD

LLM/RAG experience

Stakeholder comms

Education

Tertiary qualification in CS/Engineering/Data

Tools

Vector stores

CI/CD tooling

Observability tooling

Job description

Westpac in Sydney is pursuing responsible, human-centred AI at enterprise scale and seeks hands-on AI Engineers to design, code, test, and deploy production-ready AI applications, services and platforms in a regulated environment.

You’ll join our Data, Digital & AI function and work with the Westpac Chief AI Innovation Office to build practical AI capability across technology, data, risk, security, product and business teams.