Principal AI Engineer — Enterprise AI Enablement

Commonwealth Bank of Australia; Sydney; On-site; AUD 210,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank of Australia in Sydney seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead the technical strategy for Group AI Enablement, shaping enterprise AI capabilities and scalable foundations across agentic AI, RAG, cloud platforms and integrations.

You will drive architecture, connect business needs with engineering patterns, remain hands-on, and mentor engineers while delivering secure, reliable production-grade solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex engineering initiatives across multiple teams, platforms and stakeholders.
• Proven ability to design distributed, cloud-native systems and enterprise integration patterns.
• Strong software engineering in Python, TypeScript or C#.
• Hands-on with AI/ML tooling and secure, resilient production systems.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term engineering strategy and architecture for enterprise AI capabilities, balancing delivery with scalability and value.
• Shape integration of AI models, agents and knowledge sources with business systems for security and interoperability.
• Lead complex projects from discovery to production with measurable outcomes.
• Build reusable services and reference implementations covering identity, observability and ownership.

Skills

Architectural leadership

Distributed systems

Python/TypeScript/C#

AWS/Azure

RAG pipelines

Security & compliance

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Kubernetes

Job description

Commonwealth Bank of Australia in Sydney seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead the technical strategy for Group AI Enablement, shaping enterprise AI capabilities and scalable foundations across agentic AI, RAG, cloud platforms and integrations.

You will drive architecture, connect business needs with engineering patterns, remain hands-on, and mentor engineers while delivering secure, reliable production-grade solutions.