AI Engineer

Company Description

Lendi Group is a market-leading digital platform business focused on transforming the home loan industry. It operates the country’s #1 retail mortgage broker – the iconic Aussie Home Loans franchise – and the Australia’s #1 digital mortgage brand, Lendi.

Together, with its national network of 1,300 brokers and 230 retail stores, the Lendi Group brands give all Australians the power of choice, and confidence, in one of life’s biggest financial decisions.

Building on this market-leading foundation, Lendi Groups vision is to be the undisputed place for Australians to buy and own property through our new Aussie Homes propositions.

Lendi Group’s loan book is more than $100b and it was named Australia’s Aggregator of the Year for 2024

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion are fundamental to the success of Lendi Group. We’re passionate about fostering an environment where our team members feel valued and supported and we celebrate everyone’s unique identity.

To learn more about life at Lendi Group check out our blog: https://www.lendi.com.au/inspire/category/life-at-lendi/

About the role

We are seeking an experienced AI Engineer to design, develop, and deploy AI systems that drive agentic AI Automation within the property buying and owning, mortgage broking and financial services sector. You will work at the intersection of AI, data, software engineering, and financial services,building cutting-edge solutions that enhance operational efficiency and customer experiences.

You will be reporting into a newly formed team within Lendi Group that is focused on AI driven initiatives, working side-by-side with a high performing, knowledgeable and fun team.

This is a unique opportunity to make an impact on our long-term vision to expand our AI capability across the enterprise. We are open to this being a full-time permanent position or a fixed-term contract arrangement. Due to the nature of the project, the incumbent will be required to work from our Sydney-based Head Office alongside the broader project team for four to five days per week.

Job Description

• Build and optimize our GenAI Platform, that we can deliver AI services, agents and applications. Utilising your experience and knowledge of various frameworks, models, tools, platforms and APIs.
• Develop AI Agents and AI applications that have a wide range of abilities / tools (e.g. easily connect with databases, external APIs, internal tools and support agent-to-agent communication).
• Implement comprehensive evaluation & testing frameworks to validate agent performance, accuracy and outcomes
• Develop tools to continuously monitor AI agents and applications, their reliability, effectiveness and performance and evaluate accuracy, efficiency, and reliability of AI outputs
• Develop tooling and pipelines agents to facilitate AI agent creation deployment and manage their overall lifecycle
• Work closely with UX engineers to ensure smooth integrations between AI agents and user-facing interfaces
• Ensure the platform is robust, scalable, and secure to support various AI-driven applications
• Implement essential logging and observability to support performance evaluation and troubleshooting
• Ensure your agents can act autonomously but have the right interface to guarantee a human in the loop
• Provide subject matter expertise on AI tools, agents and vendors, and take technical leadership of your team's AI efforts

Qualifications

• Significant, proven hands-on experience in AI agent development. Can be demonstrated by sharing your github repo examples.
• Proven experience with different AI tools, agents and vendors such as, OpenAI, Claude, AWS Bedrock, Langchain, CrewAI.
• Proven experience with different AI technologies, such as text/image generative, RAG and multi-agent architectures.
• Experience in integrating AI vendors into an enterprise eco-system.
• Expert in AI/ML concepts, vector databases, and DevOps best practices.
• Proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript or Python.
• Expertise in API design, system architecture, and backend development.
• Strong focus on testing, quality assurance, and system reliability.
• Deep experience with JavaScript frameworks relating to AI is helpful. 
• Experience with building first-of-a-kind solutions incl. scaling them helpful. 
• Proficiency in standards and techniques for web scalability, performance, and security.
• Experience with AWS cloud technologies.

Additional Information

• We offer extended Paid Parental Leave: we celebrate our growing Lendi Group family with up to 26 weeks leave for primary carers and up to 4 weeks for secondary carers. 
• An additional week’s Loyalty Leave each year after reaching 3 years’ service. 

We are a people-first company that invests in initiatives to promote a healthy work environment, such as offering an Employee Assistance Program and social groups such as our industry-leading Women in Technology group.

Our culture is guided by our 3 core values: We Are Stronger United; Act Like You Own It; and Keep Home Loans Human. Our values are part of our core DNA that helps Lendi Group to attract, engage and evolve the right talent and build best-in-class products.

Feeling like you don’t meet all the skills listed? That’s ok; we are always on the lookout for different skills, experience, and qualities and so we’d still like to hear from you.

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