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Lead AI Engineer - Intelligence & Protection

Sydney, New South Wales💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-27 → 2026-09-29

Core

Lead the end-to-end engineering of a Financial Crime Protection intelligence solution, translating complex fraud and AML needs into safe, production-ready outcomes.

Role type

Senior IC Lead AI Engineer (Financial Crime Protection)

Builds

Governed data pipelines, backend services, APIs, AI models, and accessible human review interfaces for financial crime detection.

Domain

Financial Services / Financial Crime Protection / AML / Fraud Detection

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Financial Crime Protection domain expertise, full-stack engineering (Go/Python, SQL, TypeScript, React, Next.js), API and event-driven architecture design, graph and investigation engineering, AI service engineering (LLMs, RAG, agents, prompt engineering), human-in-the-loop review systems, data lineage and entity resolution.

Preferred skills

Experience with responsible AI frameworks, security and privacy controls in regulated environments, mentoring engineering teams.

Technologies

Go, Python, SQL, TypeScript, React, Next.js, LLMs, RAG, Graph databases

Responsibilities

Lead solution-level design and delivery of intelligence systems; translate domain SME insights into engineering decisions; define boundaries between automated signals and human decisions; ensure data integrity and honest reporting of missing information; enforce agent controls and access limits; manage versioned releases with rollback capabilities; mentor engineers on specialist delivery patterns.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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