Senior AI Engineer - Intelligence & Protection

WestpacSydneyHybridFull-time25 Sept 2026

Senior AI Engineer needed to own complex intelligence and protection workstreams, building production-ready AI solutions across governed data, backend services, APIs, and human review experiences. The role supports financial crime prevention (fraud, AML) and requires strong full-stack engineering, AI service engineering, and domain experience in fraud and financial crime protection. Based in Sydney or Melbourne with hybrid working.

What you'll do

Own detailed design, implementation, verification, release and operational readiness for a complex workstream.
Build reliable contracts connecting source data, events, services, models, agents, user journeys and downstream systems.
Maintain traceable evidence across entities, facts, signals and review outcomes.
Ensure missing, stale, denied, incomplete and unavailable information is represented correctly.
Implement agent boundaries using typed inputs, approved tools, access checks, limits, citations, audit and safe failure.
Protect sensitive data through least privilege, minimisation, pseudonymisation and controlled disclosure.
Own versioning, deployment, rollback, recovery, diagnostics, incident support and continuous improvement.

What you need

Must-have

GoPythonSQLTypeScriptReactNext.jsAPI designEvent design

Soft skills

JudgementOwnershipAccountability

AI EngineerFinancial CrimeFraudAMLFull-stackMachine LearningLLMsRAGAgentsBanking

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