Senior Engineer - AI Services

Westpac; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Westpac is seeking a senior individual contributor to own complex AI workstreams from design to production, spanning software, data and AI components.

You will build AI-powered full-stack solutions across software, data, AI, integration and operations, while mentoring engineers and strengthening delivery patterns. This Sydney/Melbourne hybrid role emphasizes safe governance, deployment, monitoring and incident support.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex AI workstreams from design to production.
• Hands-on full-stack engineering across software, data and AI.
• Ability to mentor engineers and drive delivery patterns.

Responsibilities

• Own a complex workstream from design through release, operation and production support.
• Build AI-powered full-stack solutions across software, data, AI, integration and UX.
• 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, 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

Mentoring engineers

Security & governance

CI/CD

Tools

CI/CD

Job description

• Sydney or Melbourne Based / Hybrid Working.
• Own complex AI workstreams from detailed design to reliable production outcomes.

Are you ready?

Join AI Services as a senior individual contributor owning complex workstreams and major feature sets.

You will turn solution direction into tested, production-ready products across software, data, AI, integration and operations, while mentoring engineers and strengthening shared delivery patterns.

Core Focus & 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.

Key Ingredients for Success

• 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, durable state, audit and recovery.
• Deep AI service engineering across ML, LLMs, RAG, agents, evaluation, tool controls, monitoring and fallback.
• Secure delivery expertise spanning automated testing, CI/CD, observability, resilience and production support.
• Practical governance-by-design covering traceability, evidence, privacy, human approval and control-aware delivery.
• Clear technical communication, constructive challenge, mentoring, design review and code review capability.

Test the waters today, let’s go!

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