Platform Engineer – AI & Agent Platforms
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Whats the role
Were looking for two Platform Engineers to design build and scale enterprise-grade AI platform capabilities with a strong focus on agent-based systems and orchestration.
These roles sit at the core of our AI Control Plane initiativeenabling teams to build deploy and operate AI agents and AI-powered services safely reliably and at scale. You will play a key role in engineering reusable platform capabilities that support agent design execution lifecycle management and governance.
This is a hands-on role combining platform engineering distributed systems thinking and practical experience building production-ready AI agents.
This role can be based in all locations across Australia.
What do I need
- Strong software engineering experience building distributed production-grade systems
- Proven experience designing and implementing AI agents or orchestration-based systems
- Hands-on experience with:
- LLM integration and APIs
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Agent frameworks and orchestration patterns
- Workflow composition and tool integration
- Experience building platform abstractions (APIs SDKs shared services)
- Strong understanding of production engineering practices (resilience monitoring incident response)
- Ability to balance trade-offs between performance latency cost and risk
Additionally youll bring:
- Experience with AI control planes gateways or multi-model routing (desirable)
- Exposure to evaluation benchmarking or prompt lifecycle practices
- Understanding of security compliance and responsible AI controls
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and open standards
What success looks like:
- Scalable reusable AI agent capabilities adopted across multiple teams
- Reliable observable and production-ready AI systems
- Platform-led delivery reducing bespoke implementations
- Strong governance and risk controls embedded into AI solutions
- Improved developer productivity through consistent tools and patterns
- Continuous improvement driven by performance data evaluation and iteration
Were obsessed with becoming our customers #1 banking partner for life and were looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that return were committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways were 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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Were all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone no matter your age gender background or abilities. We also provide additional support to welcome our veterans Indigenous Australians and neurodiverse community.
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About Company
Westpac has a long and proud history as Australia's first and oldest bank. It was established in 1817 as the Bank of New South Wales under a charter of incorporation provided by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. In October 1982 it changed its name to Westpac Banking Corporation following th ... View more
