• Fixed‑term contract until end of June 2028 in a highly visible Innovation Lab role

• Play a critical role in shaping the future of AI at one of Australia’s most trusted financial institutions

• Work on cutting-edge Generative AI platforms and enterprise AI solutions that deliver real productivity uplift across the Bank

About the business/role/team

The Innovation Lab plays a key role in identifying, evaluating and implementing emerging technologies that support the Reserve Bank of Australia’s strategic objectives. The team is responsible for advancing the Bank’s AI strategy, uplifting AI capability across the organisation and delivering innovative Generative AI solutions that improve productivity, collaboration and operational efficiency.

In this role, you will report to the Innovation Lab Manager and work closely with the AI Delivery Lead, AI Engineers, technology teams, business stakeholders and vendors across the Bank. The team operates at the intersection of strategy, experimentation and delivery, leveraging platforms including Microsoft Foundry, Cloudera Machine Learning, Posit and other enterprise AI capabilities to develop secure and scalable AI applications.

This is an opportunity to work in a highly collaborative environment where emerging technologies rapidly move from concept to production use cases with meaningful organisational impact.

About the role

As an AI Engineer – GenAI Platforms & Applications, you will help design, build and deploy enterprise AI solutions that support productivity uplift and AI adoption across the Bank.

Key responsibilities include:

• Design and develop Generative AI applications and proof-of-concepts using enterprise AI platforms such as Microsoft Foundry and Cloudera Machine Learning

• Build integrations, APIs, copilots, automations and AI-enabled workflows that improve employee productivity and operational efficiency

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate opportunities into practical AI solutions

• Contribute to the implementation of the Bank’s AI strategy through experimentation, delivery and continuous improvement initiatives

• Support AI platform engineering activities including orchestration, agent engineering, model integration and application deployment

• Ensure AI solutions align with enterprise security, governance and responsible AI requirements

• Evaluate emerging AI technologies, tools and patterns to help inform innovation and future capability uplift

• Work closely with cross-functional teams across architecture, security, infrastructure and data domains

About You

You will bring:

• Strong experience developing cloud-native applications and services using modern engineering practices and architectures

• Hands-on experience with Generative AI technologies, enterprise AI platforms or LLM-based application development

• Experience building scalable applications, APIs and microservices using Python and cloud technologies

• Experience integrating AI capabilities into enterprise platforms, workflows and business applications

• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to rapidly prototype and iterate solutions

• Understanding of enterprise security, responsible AI and governance considerations within regulated environments

• Strong stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills with the ability to work across technical and business teams

• Experience with Microsoft Azure, Azure AI services, Microsoft Foundry, machine learning platforms or data science tooling will be highly regarded

• Familiarity with AI orchestration frameworks, RAG architectures, vector databases and agent-based solutions is desirable

Be More

Working for an organisation that truly makes a difference to the people of Australia, we can offer development and career opportunities in a collaborative environment that supports your growth, wellbeing and promotes flexibility. Your individual growth and success drives the RBA forward as an organisation. Be more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.

Why RBA?

The RBA makes an important contribution to the Australian economy through the pursuit of national economic policy objectives and associated activities in financial markets and banking. We also issue Australia's banknotes and operate infrastructure critical to the payments system, all of which contribute to the welfare of the Australian people. Made up of specialists across a wide range of fields, our people, values, and culture play a critical role in achieving our objectives. Striving to be Open & Dynamic, we consider and incorporate different perspectives, work across teams and are transparent with each other, whilst delivering quality together effectively and focusing on outcomes by prioritising, testing, learning, and refining as we go. Our people conduct themselves with a high degree of integrity, while striving for excellence in the work they perform and the outcomes they achieve. We encourage intelligent inquiry and we treat one another with respect while promoting the public interest through our efforts. We know it is the growth and success of our people that drives the RBA forward. Come and make a bigger contribution while you build and develop your own skills too, because being more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.

The Reserve Bank of Australia is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion through key initiatives. We welcome and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse background, those living with a disability and from the LGBTQ+ community. We are committed to making the recruitment process fair and equitable for all our candidates.