Principal Engineer, Gen AI

Commonwealth Bank

. Set technical direction for platforms supporting AI-model benchmarking, evaluation, serving and intelligent routing .

Posted 11/12/2026full-timeMelbourne • AustraliaLeadWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates deep platform and infrastructure engineering capabilities with practical experience in AI and machine learning systems. Proven ability to design resilient cloud services, mentor engineering teams, and influence stakeholders while establishing responsible AI practices.

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AI And Machine Learning SystemsCloud Services DesignSoftware Development In Python, TypeScript, Java, Go, Or C#Technical Strategy LeadershipSecure Engineering Practices

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Hard Skills

Platform EngineeringInfrastructure DesignModel EvaluationBenchmarkingAPIsObservabilityAutomationCI/CDExperiment DesignProduction Software Development

Soft Skills

MentoringInfluencing StakeholdersKnowledge SharingLearning AgilityTechnical Communication

Industry Keywords

Responsible AIEngineering MetricsRisk ManagementData ScienceComplex Engineering Initiatives

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudJavaPythonTypeScriptGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Set technical direction for platforms supporting AI-model benchmarking, evaluation, serving and intelligent routing
Design and build scalable infrastructure for engineering teams to use specialised and general-purpose models
Create measurement frameworks for model quality, engineering performance, reliability, adoption and cost
Establish patterns and guardrails for responsible AI use across software delivery, CI/CD, risk and operational processes
Partner with platform, engineering, product and risk teams to identify opportunities and translate them into reusable capabilities
Evaluate emerging tools and approaches, balancing performance, resilience, security, cost and speed
Write software, contribute to system design and remain hands-on with complex technical problems
Mentor engineers, influence senior stakeholders and build organisational capability through open learning and knowledge sharing
Scale CommBank's AI-assisted code review, testing, engineering metrics, internal knowledge tools and agentic engineering products

Requirements

What you’ll need

Deep platform, infrastructure or software-engineering capability with practical exposure to machine learning or AI systems
Experience working across data science and engineering disciplines and tool sets
Experience leading complex engineering initiatives and setting technical strategy across multiple teams
Experience designing resilient cloud or platform services, including APIs, observability, automation and CI/CD
Practical application of AI or machine-learning to technical problems, particularly model selection, evaluation, benchmarking or routing
Production software development using languages such as Python, TypeScript, Java, Go or C#
Experience working with uncertain measures and designing experiments that produce meaningful, defensible evidence
Secure engineering, reliability practices and responsible AI controls
Ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders and explain complex trade-offs clearly
Experience coaching engineers and lifting standards, practices and capability across an organisation
Background in mathematics, statistics, physics or engineering would be valuable
Practical capability, learning agility and sound technical judgement

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work locations
Respectful, inclusive and flexible workplace
Opportunities to share ideas, initiatives, and energy
Career development support for Commonwealth Bank Group employees