Senior Responsible AI Scientist - Remote & Impactful Risk

Commonwealth Bank of Australia; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank of Australia seeks a Senior Data Scientist, Responsible AI, to develop key capabilities across evaluations, runtime assurance and monitoring for use across the Group. You will work with risk and policy teams, data scientists and engineers to ensure Responsible AI is built-in and scalable, delivering high-quality outcomes for customers and staff.

You will join a highly technical team, applying advanced statistics, Python and cloud tools to design, evaluate and govern AI systems,

Qualifications

• Production AI solutions design, development and evaluation incl. Generative/Agentic AI.
• Evaluate and manage risk of Generative/Agentic AI systems.
• Strong foundation in statistics, probability and ML.
• Advanced Python, SQL and ML/DL frameworks experience.
• Cloud environments (AWS/Azure), version control, CI/CD, containerization and observability.
• Experience applying responsible AI, model governance and risk management.
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to influence stakeholders.
• Tertiary qualification in Data Science, Statistics, CS, Engineering or related field beneficial.
• Experience in software engineering is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Deliver responsible AI capabilities for evaluations, runtime assurance and monitoring across the Group.
• Collaborate with engineering, data science, risk and policy teams to design and deliver capabilities.
• Build and operate formal risk controls to standardise responsible AI practices.
• Establish executive risk reporting to senior leadership.
• Apply statistical methods to complex responsible AI challenges.
• Work with data scientists and developers to understand requirements and identify enhancements.
• Keep up-to-date with industry developments in Generative and Agentic AI and responsible AI.
• Contribute to best practice frameworks and coding standards.
• Coach and mentor team members to build AI and data science capability.

Job description

Commonwealth Bank of Australia seeks a Senior Data Scientist, Responsible AI, to develop key capabilities across evaluations, runtime assurance and monitoring for use across the Group. You will work with risk and policy teams, data scientists and engineers to ensure Responsible AI is built-in and scalable, delivering high-quality outcomes for customers and staff.

You will join a highly technical team, applying advanced statistics, Python and cloud tools to design, evaluate and govern AI systems,