Senior Generative AI Scientist for Production ML

Commonwealth Bank; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank's Chief Operations Office is hiring a Senior Data Scientist to build production-ready generative AI, agentic AI and ML solutions, turning complex operational challenges into scalable, responsible outcomes.

You'll work in a cross-functional squad with data scientists, engineers and operations teams, deploying models from experimentation to production and ensuring governance, monitoring and value delivery across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience developing and deploying statistical and machine learning models.
• Practical generative AI experience, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, guardrails and evaluation.
• Familiarity with agentic frameworks such as LangChain or LangGraph.
• Hands-on capability with Python, SQL and relevant tools such as Spark, TensorFlow or PyTorch.
• Experience with AWS or Azure, containers, data pipelines, version control and continuous integration and deployment.
• Understanding of feature engineering, model evaluation, production monitoring and responsible AI.
• An experimentation mindset and the ability to demonstrate value in a customer and business context.
• Strong collaboration skills across data science, engineering, operations and stakeholder groups.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy and monitor generative AI, agentic AI and machine learning solutions.
• Build applications using retrieval-augmented generation, orchestration, guardrails and evaluation frameworks.
• Develop models across natural language processing, classification and unsupervised learning.
• Translate operational challenges into practical data and AI solutions with measurable outcomes.
• Apply robust experimentation, feature engineering, model selection and evaluation practices.
• Partner with engineers to create scalable and maintainable production solutions.
• Support responsible AI through appropriate validation, governance, risk and monitoring practices.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data science

Experimentation

Collaboration

Tools

Spark

TensorFlow

PyTorch

LangChain

LangGraph

AWS

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

Orchestration

Job description

Commonwealth Bank's Chief Operations Office is hiring a Senior Data Scientist to build production-ready generative AI, agentic AI and ML solutions, turning complex operational challenges into scalable, responsible outcomes.

You'll work in a cross-functional squad with data scientists, engineers and operations teams, deploying models from experimentation to production and ensuring governance, monitoring and value delivery across the organisation.