Staff AI Engineer — Intelligent Document Processing

Narooma; New South Wales; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

CommBank is seeking a Staff Engineer to shape the architecture and engineering direction for AI-powered document processing. You will combine strong software engineering with Generative AI, LLMs and document intelligence to build secure, scalable, production-ready services.

As a trusted technical leader, you will mentor engineers, influence technical strategy across teams and help establish reusable patterns for extraction, evaluation and guardrails, while delivering impact across document

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with demonstrated technical leadership.
• Hands-on experience designing, building and deploying production AI or Generative AI solutions.
• Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, structured outputs and AI evaluation.
• Proficiency in Python and cloud-native technologies.
• Knowledge of document intelligence, OCR, classification, extraction or Intelligent Document Processing.
• Understanding of scalable, resilient and secure enterprise architecture.
• Ability to influence technical and architectural direction across teams.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Shape the architecture and engineering strategy for AI-powered document processing.
• Lead the technical design of AI-powered Intelligent Document Processing capabilities.
• Engineer solutions for classification, information extraction, validation and transformation.
• Apply Generative AI, LLMs, ML and document intelligence to complex problems.
• Establish reusable patterns for prompt engineering, structured extraction, evaluation and human-in-the-loop processing.
• Deliver production-ready services with AI guardrails, monitoring and controls.
• Mentor engineers and uplift AI and software engineering capability across the crew.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

AI/ML production

LLMs

Prompt engineering

AI evaluation

Python

Cloud-native

Document intelligence

OCR

Classification

Extraction

Enterprise architecture

Influence across teams

Communication

Job description

CommBank is seeking a Staff Engineer to shape the architecture and engineering direction for AI-powered document processing. You will combine strong software engineering with Generative AI, LLMs and document intelligence to build secure, scalable, production-ready services.

As a trusted technical leader, you will mentor engineers, influence technical strategy across teams and help establish reusable patterns for extraction, evaluation and guardrails, while delivering impact across document