Hybrid AI Engineer: Safe Intelligence & Protection

Westpac Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Westpac Group’s AI Services team in Australia invites a hands-on, AI-powered full-stack Engineer to build safe intelligent systems for decision support. You’ll work across governed data, APIs, and AI workflows to deliver features within established designs and controls.

You will contribute to production-grade capabilities, ensuring safety, reliability and accountability while complying with Westpac security, privacy and Responsible AI standards.

Qualifications

• Financial Services domain AI engineering experience in financial crime protection.
• Hands-on full-stack engineering across backend, APIs, data stores and web apps.
• Experience with Go or Python, SQL, TypeScript, React and Next.js.
• Knowledge of identity, entitlements, audit, data lineage and access controls.
• Understanding of graph concepts: entities, relationships, bounded paths and evidence links.
• AI service skills across ML signals, LLMs, RAG, agents, evaluation and tool controls.
• Ability to present evidence with sources, uncertainty, status and limitations.

Responsibilities

• Build, test, release and support features across data, services, APIs, AI workflows and user experiences.
• Preserve source references, lineage, access rules and data-quality information throughout assigned work.
• Show missing, stale, denied, incomplete and unavailable information 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

Go

Python

SQL

TypeScript

React

Next.js

Full-stack

AI Engineering

Data quality

Data lineage

Access controls

Graph concepts

ML signals

LLMs

RAG

Agents

Evaluation

Tool controls

Monitoring

Evidence

Job description

Westpac Group’s AI Services team in Australia invites a hands-on, AI-powered full-stack Engineer to build safe intelligent systems for decision support. You’ll work across governed data, APIs, and AI workflows to deliver features within established designs and controls.

You will contribute to production-grade capabilities, ensuring safety, reliability and accountability while complying with Westpac security, privacy and Responsible AI standards.