Senior Data Scientist: Responsible & Agentic AI

Commonwealth Bank; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank is hiring a Senior Data Scientist focused on Responsible AI within the Agentic AI domain in Sydney. You will develop evaluation, runtime assurance and monitoring capabilities, solving complex problems that ensure AI systems across the group deliver reliable outcomes for customers and staff.

You will collaborate with data scientists, engineering teams and risk and policy colleagues to operationalise responsible AI, implement governance, and communicate risk and impact to senior

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience designing, developing and evaluating production AI or ML solutions, including Generative or Agentic AI.
• Experience evaluating and managing risk of Generative and Agentic AI systems.
• Foundations in statistics, probability and ML; ability to interpret and explain model behavior.
• Advanced Python and SQL with relevant ML/DL frameworks.
• Experience with cloud environments (AWS/Azure), version control, CI/CD, containerization and observability.
• Experience applying responsible AI, governance, risk management in regulated environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication to influence stakeholders.
• Degree in data science, CS, engineering, math is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Deliver world-class evaluation and assurance capabilities for Generative and Agentic AI across the Group.
• Collaborate with engineering, data science, risk, and policy teams to design AI capabilities.
• Build and operate formal risk controls for responsible AI practices.
• Establish executive risk reporting for responsible AI outcomes to senior leaders.
• Apply statistical methods to complex and ambiguous Responsible AI challenges.
• Work with data scientists and developers to define requirements for Responsible AI capabilities.
• Keep up-to-date with industry advances in Generative and Agentic AI and responsible AI.
• Contribute to best-practice frameworks and coding standards.
• Coach and mentor team members to grow AI and data science capability.

Skills

Generative Agentic AI

Statistical knowledge

Python

SQL

Cloud environments

Risk management in AI

Stakeholder communication

Education

Data Science / CS / Statistics / Engineering degree

Tools

TensorFlow/PyTorch

Docker

CI/CD

Job description

Commonwealth Bank is hiring a Senior Data Scientist focused on Responsible AI within the Agentic AI domain in Sydney. You will develop evaluation, runtime assurance and monitoring capabilities, solving complex problems that ensure AI systems across the group deliver reliable outcomes for customers and staff.

You will collaborate with data scientists, engineering teams and risk and policy colleagues to operationalise responsible AI, implement governance, and communicate risk and impact to senior