AI Engineer Jobs in Australia (No ghost jobs, direct from employers)

What's the role?

This is a permanent, full-time engineering role within Information Security Group's Critical Protective Controls team. You'll help build secure agentic AI capabilities across enterprise cyber platforms, including AI agents, workflows, orchestration, Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations and model gateway services. Working across software engineering, cyber security and AI, you'll take solutions from design through integration, testing and production implementation, while applying strong engineering quality, security and operational controls. Location and hybrid working arrangements will be confirmed during the recruitment process.

What do I need?

• Core software and systems engineering, including solution design, development, integration, testing and production implementation.
• AI / LLM engineering, including integration of AI capabilities into enterprise and cyber platforms.
• Agentic AI engineering, including development and integration of agents, AI workflows and orchestration capabilities.
• API and systems integration across cyber platforms, AI services, data sources and enterprise services.
• MCP engineering and integration, including MCP servers and enterprise MCP gateway integration.
• Model gateway / AI control-plane engineering, including experience with Portkey and enterprise model access patterns.
• DevSecOps / CI/CD, covering automated build, test, deployment and secure release practices.
• Engineering quality, including design and code reviews, automated testing, maintainability, technical debt management and defect prevention.

Why join us?

We're obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life and we're looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return, we're committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we're already doing that:

• Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates!
• Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
• Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank.
• Lots of opportunities to 'give back' to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.

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