Senior AI Engineer - Enterprise-Scale & Responsible AI

Westpac Group; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Westpac Group in Sydney is seeking a senior, hands-on AI Engineer to join the Chief AI Innovation Office. You will design, build, test, harden and operate AI capabilities that are safe, reliable and ready for enterprise use, in a hybrid Sydney environment that scales AI across the bank.

You will mentor engineers, establish reusable engineering patterns and help ensure AI is delivered responsibly from concept through production, collaborating with product, risk, security and data teams to deliver

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on AI engineering experience in a complex corporate/enterprise setting.
• Strong track record delivering AI/LLM-enabled systems in production with governance and observability.
• Solid software foundations: Python, APIs, cloud services, distributed systems, CI/CD, automated testing.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, harden and operate AI capabilities for enterprise use.
• Lead through technical credibility, influence, and reusable engineering patterns.
• Guide teams to deliver AI responsibly from concept to production across cross-functional groups.
• Review designs and code, mentor engineers, and establish durable fixes for AI system issues.

Skills

AI engineering

Production AI

Python

APIs

Cloud services

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Automated testing

LLMs

RAG

Embeddings

Agents

Model monitoring

Safety & compliance

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Westpac Group in Sydney is seeking a senior, hands-on AI Engineer to join the Chief AI Innovation Office. You will design, build, test, harden and operate AI capabilities that are safe, reliable and ready for enterprise use, in a hybrid Sydney environment that scales AI across the bank.

You will mentor engineers, establish reusable engineering patterns and help ensure AI is delivered responsibly from concept through production, collaborating with product, risk, security and data teams to deliver