Senior AI Engineer - Production‑Ready, Governance‑Focused

Westpac; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Westpac is accelerating the future of banking through responsible, human‑centred AI. A senior, hands‑on AI Engineer will shape how AI is engineered, governed and scaled within the Chief AI Innovation Office.

You will design, build and operate AI capabilities that are safe, reliable, and production‑ready, leading through technical credibility and mentoring engineers across teams. You will collaborate with product, platform, data, risk and security teams to implement robust, reusable patterns and

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on AI engineering experience in a complex corporate, technology or enterprise environment.
• Strong record of delivering AI, machine learning or LLM-enabled systems deployed in production and governed.
• Solid software engineering foundations across Python, APIs, cloud services, distributed systems, CI/CD, automated testing and modern delivery practices.
• Deep practical experience with LLMs, RAG patterns, embeddings, agents, evaluation frameworks, orchestration, model lifecycle management and monitoring.
• Experience embedding safety, privacy, compliance, explainability, reliability and operational risk controls into AI solutions.
• The ability to shape technical direction, raise engineering standards and bring stakeholders through ambiguity and change.
• Clear communication skills across engineering, product, delivery, risk and senior stakeholder audiences.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and ship complex AI platforms, services and products at enterprise scale.
• Engineer robust LLM, retrieval‑augmented generation, agentic and orchestration solutions with governance built in.
• Take AI capabilities from experimentation into production, including testing, deployment, monitoring and incident response.
• Lift engineering standards across prompt/context management, model evaluation, security and Responsible AI guardrails.
• Make practical trade‑offs across model quality, latency, cost, risk and customer impact in 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.
• Lead technical investigations and durable fixes for complex AI system issues.

Skills

Hands-on AI engineering

Production AI systems

Software foundations (Python, APIs, CI

LLMs, RAG, embeddings

Safety, privacy, compliance in AI

Leadership and technical influence

Tools

Python

APIs

Job description

Westpac is accelerating the future of banking through responsible, human‑centred AI. A senior, hands‑on AI Engineer will shape how AI is engineered, governed and scaled within the Chief AI Innovation Office.

You will design, build and operate AI capabilities that are safe, reliable, and production‑ready, leading through technical credibility and mentoring engineers across teams. You will collaborate with product, platform, data, risk and security teams to implement robust, reusable patterns and