Lead AI Engineer — GenAI & Production Systems

BOZAMO; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Wesfarmers OneDigital is building Australia’s leading data and digital retail ecosystem, powered by AI across retail, loyalty and data platforms. The Senior AI Engineer leads technical delivery for GenAI initiatives, translating requirements into production designs, writing robust code and guiding deployments with a focus on scalable, observable systems.

You’ll collaborate with AI Data Engineers, enterprise specialists and governance teams, applying established engineering patterns and mentoring

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering experience building and supporting production applications.
• Hands-on experience designing and delivering LLM or GenAI applications.
• Experience leading the technical delivery of a production AI, ML or GenAI solution.
• Experience integrating applications with APIs, databases and enterprise systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms, cloud-native services and production operations.
• Experience working effectively in a large enterprise technology environment.
• A relevant tertiary qualification is desirable but not essential.
• Advanced capability in at least one modern programming language, with modern application development frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of GenAI patterns including RAG, agents, tool use and structured outputs.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals across source control, testing, CI/CD and observability.
• Experience with cloud AI services, agent frameworks, embeddings, vector search and RAG.
• Experience with containers, cloud deployment and infrastructure-as-code.
• Practical understanding of evaluation, monitoring, cost and production support for AI systems.
• Ability to investigate unfamiliar technical problems and turn findings into maintainable software.
• Clear communication and the ability to guide engineers and work across technical disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution design and technical delivery for assigned AI and GenAI initiatives.
• Write clean, maintainable and well-tested production code on the critical delivery path.
• Turn ambiguous requirements into a practical design and sequenced engineering work.
• Own a solution from technical discovery through deployment and early-life support.
• Make local design decisions within agreed architecture and patterns.

Skills

Software engineering

GenAI

LLM

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Observability

APIs

Mentoring

Education

Relevant tertiary qualification

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud services

Data integration

Job description

Wesfarmers OneDigital is building Australia’s leading data and digital retail ecosystem, powered by AI across retail, loyalty and data platforms. The Senior AI Engineer leads technical delivery for GenAI initiatives, translating requirements into production designs, writing robust code and guiding deployments with a focus on scalable, observable systems.

You’ll collaborate with AI Data Engineers, enterprise specialists and governance teams, applying established engineering patterns and mentoring