Senior AI Engineer — End-to-End, Production-Ready (Hybrid AU)

Westpac; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

Westpac’s AI Services team is accelerating senior, hands-on engineers to own complex workstreams from design to production. You will deliver AI-powered, full‑stack solutions spanning software, data, integration and user experience, while setting robust governance, security and observability patterns.

You will mentor engineers, drive safe model practices, and ensure reliable deployment, monitoring and incident response within a hybrid Sydney/Melbourne environment.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on full-stack engineering across software, data, AI, integration, testing and operations.
• Advanced design capability across APIs, events, data flows, service boundaries, identity, audit and recovery.
• Deep AI service engineering across ML, LLMs, RAG, agents, evaluation, tool controls, monitoring and fallback.

Responsibilities

• Own a complex workstream or major feature set from detailed design through release, operation and production support.
• Build AI-powered full-stack solutions across software, data, AI, integration and user experience.
• Create reliable contracts across data, services, AI components, user journeys and enterprise systems.
• Engineer safe model and agent behaviour through access controls, approved tools, evaluation, monitoring and fallback.
• Own versioning, compatibility, deployment, rollback, recovery, diagnostics and incident support.
• Review designs and code, mentor engineers and identify material technical, delivery, data, model and operational risks early.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

AI service engineering

APIs and data flows

CI/CD & observability

Mentoring engineers

Job description

Westpac’s AI Services team is accelerating senior, hands-on engineers to own complex workstreams from design to production. You will deliver AI-powered, full‑stack solutions spanning software, data, integration and user experience, while setting robust governance, security and observability patterns.

You will mentor engineers, drive safe model practices, and ensure reliable deployment, monitoring and incident response within a hybrid Sydney/Melbourne environment.