Staff Software Engineer – AI, ML

Staff Software Engineer – Gen AI, ML

• You are a passionate AI Engineer that loves building solutions at scale
• We are leading the world in AI ambition within Australia’s largest bank and fintech
• Together, we will engineer the future of banking with innovative AI solutions

Do work that matters

As we continue our pursuit of NPS +30 we are building solutions and products to transform the way we engage with our customers and colleagues.  

The Senior AI Engineer will lead the design, development and deployment of advanced AI and machine learning models. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable AI solutions that align with business objectives. The ideal candidate is highly skilled in data science, machine learning and software engineering, with a strong track record of developing AI models and deploying them in production environments.

See yourself in our team

As a Staff Engineer, you’ll be leading and driving thought leadership, designing and implementing large scale ML and AI engineering solutions, coaching other team members and as well as influencing and engaging the senior stakeholders on modern best practices.

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month connecting in office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work for you.  

Key Responsibilities:

• Design scalable AI solutions and complex AI and ML models that integrate with existing systems and support business objectives.
• Conduct experiments to evaluate model performance and iteratively refine models based on findings.
• Collaborate with Data engineers to deploy AI models in production environments, ensuring robustness and scalability.
• Lead research initiatives to explore new AI models and methodologies that can be applied to current and future products
• Collaborate with cross-functional roles including data engineers, Software Engineers and business to deliver AI solutions.
• Develop and implement monitoring systems to track the performance of AI models in production.

Tech Skills:

• Proven hands-on experience in automated LLM outcome validation and metrication of AI outputs, AWS cloud services such as SNS, SQS, Lambda.
• Strong commercial experience implementing solutions using RAG, Prompt Engineering, LLM models - OpenAI and Bedrock.
• Expertise in Python, MLOps, Vector DB, Dynamo DB, Langfuse, MLflow, Glue, Bleu, traditional machine learning.
• Demonstrated experience in DevSecOps practices including continuous integration, continuous deployment and security practices.
• Deep knowledge of ethical AI practices and tools to implement scalable solutions.
• Experience in big data platform technologies such as Spark framework, Iceberg file formats, Redshift and relational databases.
• Collaborate with Data engineers to deploy AI models in production environments, ensuring robustness and scalability.
• Hands-on DevSecOps experience including continuous integration/continuous deployment, security practices.

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with a hybrid approach of at least half your time each month connecting in office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work for you.

Here, you’ll thrive. You’ll be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities.

Working with us:

Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career here is for you. At CommBank, we advocate and facilitate a culture of inclusion and respect, celebrating all cultures, abilities, genders, expressions of gender and sexual orientation. Read more about our commitment to inclusion and diversity on our careers website.

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive and flexible workplace. We are working hard to recruit people who represent the diversity of our customers and our society. If you're excited about this opportunity but you don't meet every single requirement, or your experience doesn't align perfectly, we still want to encourage you to send in your application. You may just be the perfect candidate for this opportunity or another within CommBank.

At CommBank we will inspire you with work that makes a difference, surround you with talented people that respect and value each other, and empower you to grow professionally and personally. Most of all, making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day.

We’re determined to make a real difference for Australia’s first peoples. We encourage all interested applicants to apply. If you’re already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including BankWest), you’ll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.

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If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.

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