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.

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.

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