About the Role
AI will play a significant role in how Stake builds products, serves customers and operates as we continue to scale. This role sits at the centre of that transformation. As an AI Engineer, you'll help shape how generative AI is embedded across Stake. You'll work on products used by hundreds of thousands of customers, while also unlocking new ways for teams across the business to move faster, make better decisions and deliver exceptional experiences. You'll join a high-performing team with the autonomy to experiment, the ambition to tackle meaningful problems and the opportunity to see your work create real impact. From customer-facing experiences to internal AI systems, you'll help turn emerging technology into practical, scalable solutions that move the business forward. Reporting to the Head of Data and AI, you'll partner closely with engineers, product managers and data specialists to design, build and deploy AI-powered products and platforms. You'll play a key role in defining how AI is applied at Stake and help establish the technical foundations that support our next phase of growth.
Responsibilities
- Build AI-powered products and experiences that create meaningful value for customers and teams across Stake.
- Lead the design, development and deployment of production-grade generative AI systems across GCP.
- Architect scalable AI infrastructure, services and workflows that enable rapid experimentation and reliable delivery.
- Partner with product, engineering, operations and data teams to identify high-impact opportunities where AI can unlock better outcomes.
- Evaluate emerging models, frameworks and techniques, translating new advances into practical applications for the business.
- Establish engineering standards, patterns and best practices for AI development across Stake.
- Write high-quality, maintainable code and contribute to a culture of technical excellence, ownership and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle and strong programming skills especially Python.
- Built and deployed customer-facing AI products at scale.
- Worked with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agentic systems or evaluation frameworks.
- Developed AI platforms, tooling or infrastructure that enabled other teams to build faster.
- Worked in fintech, investing, marketplaces or other highly regulated environments.
- Contributed to AI strategy, governance or adoption beyond your immediate engineering team.
- Experience or exposure to Java, GO, JavaScript or other languages.
Skills
- Python
- Generative AI
- GCP
- AI infrastructure
- AI services
- AI workflows
- Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- Agentic systems
- Evaluation frameworks
- AI platforms
- AI tooling
- Java
- GO
- JavaScript
Location
- Sydney CBD
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Career relevant development and training with professional development allowance
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Childcare allowance
- Sonder - healthcare, safety support and EAP for you and your immediate family
- Additional leave types (Swap days, Bear Days, TOIL, Compassionate, Sorry Business)
- Employee Share Options scheme for senior leaders
- Stake products: SMSF 30% discount on yearly membership fee, $295 AUD annual trading credit and Stake Black account
- Recognition awards and team celebrations
- Discretionary performance bonus and talent referral bonus
About the Company
- We’re an Australian investing platform that helps ambitious people confidently grow their wealth.
- By offering seamless, immersive access to the share markets, we’ve empowered a new wave of investors.
- Stake has grown fast from a fintech startup into a robust financial services company.
- Today we have 750,000+ customers and more than A$5 billion under administration.
- At Stake, we break barriers in everything we do.
- Just like our customers, we’re driven by ambition.
- Our desire for continuous growth is what creates the collaborative and high-performance environment we work in.
- Though we’re spread around the world, we’re a unified team moving towards a shared vision: to unleash the investor in everyone.
- Join us as we continue to reshape the financial industry, inspiring investor confidence and celebrating our wins along the way.
Equal Opportunity
- Stake is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity.
- We’re proactive about providing an inclusive work environment and do not discriminate based on race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability status.
- We’re also endorsed by WORK180 as a great employer for women.
- Stake placed 1st in the 2024 AFR BOSS Best Places to Work list for the Banking, Superannuation & Financial Services category, across all of Australia and New Zealand.
