Senior AI Engineer: Enterprise AI, Governance & Production

Women In Digital International; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 210,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Westpac is accelerating responsible, human-centred AI across the bank. We seek a senior, hands-on AI Engineer to join the Chief AI Innovation Office within Data, Digital & AI to shape enterprise-grade AI systems.

You will design, build and operate safe, scalable AI capabilities, mentor engineers and raise engineering standards while ensuring production readiness and governance. This hybrid Sydney role offers impact across product, platform and risk teams and a path to influence how AI is

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on AI engineering experience in a complex corporate or enterprise environment.
• Proven track record delivering AI/LLM-enabled systems that are deployed, governed and operated in production.
• Strong software foundations across Python, APIs, cloud services, distributed systems, CI/CD and automated testing.
• Deep practical experience with LLMs, RAG, embeddings, agents, evaluation frameworks, orchestration, model lifecycle management and monitoring.
• Experience embedding safety, privacy, compliance, explainability, reliability and operational risk controls into AI solutions.
• Ability to shape technical direction, raise engineering standards and lead through ambiguity and change.
• Clear communication across engineering, product, delivery, risk and senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and ship complex AI platforms, services and products at enterprise scale.
• Engineer robust LLM, RAG, embeddings, agents, and orchestration solutions with governance built in from the start.
• Take AI capabilities from experimentation into production, including testing, deployment, monitoring and incident response.
• Improve prompt and context management, model evaluation, security, privacy, compliance and Responsible AI guardrails.
• Make trade-offs across model quality, latency, cost, risk and customer impact in fast-moving delivery environments.
• Partner with product, platform, data, risk, security and business teams to scale AI safely.
• Review designs and code, mentor engineers and establish reusable patterns for safe production delivery.
• Lead technical investigations, root-cause analysis and durable fixes for AI system issues.

Skills

AI engineering

LLMs

Python

Cloud services

CI/CD

Security & governance

Risk & compliance

Observability

Mentoring

Job description

Westpac is accelerating responsible, human-centred AI across the bank. We seek a senior, hands-on AI Engineer to join the Chief AI Innovation Office within Data, Digital & AI to shape enterprise-grade AI systems.

You will design, build and operate safe, scalable AI capabilities, mentor engineers and raise engineering standards while ensuring production readiness and governance. This hybrid Sydney role offers impact across product, platform and risk teams and a path to influence how AI is