# Principal AI Engineer

Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane Based / Hybrid Working Help define Westpac’s next chapter of AI Engineering. Opportunity is knocking … The Chief AI Innovation Office within Data, Digital & AI (DDAI) is seeking a hands-on technical authority to shape Westpac’s most important AI engineering initiatives. You will work across teams and domains, setting directions, solving complex delivery challenges, and creating reusable approaches that help our engineers move safely from ideas to production. It’s an exciting time for Westpac as you help shape enterprise AI engineering at a pivotal point in its evolution, with scope across production systems, reusable platforms, agentic engineering, responsible AI, and developer experience. You’ll be a key contributor who will lift capability across teams and turn strategic AI priorities into secure, scalable production systems. Core Role Focus … Architect and engineer production-grade LLM, RAG, plus agentic and machine-learning systems. Stay hands-on: write and review code, test assumptions, lead investigations and unblock critical delivery. Create reusable platforms, reference architectures, guardrails, and golden paths that accelerate multiple team

- **Id**: 4309540
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/westpac-principal-ai-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Australia
- **Countries**: AU
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-29T09:11:35Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-29
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T11:07:09Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 46
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3445
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Commercial & Retail Banks, Business & SME Lending

## Company

- **Id**: 1766325
- **Name**: Westpac
- **Domain**: westpac.com.au
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/westpac-com-au>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 6
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0.333
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 14
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Embeddings** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 46

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T11:07:09Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 22
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.616
- **P room**: 0.35
- **Age days**: 46
- **Expected fill days**: 14
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T15:55:23Z

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