Senior AI Engineer

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 200,000 businesses worldwide - including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more - with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Attributes We Value

We hire successful builders with founder like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role related expertise and sharp thinking, and you're motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. You're humble and collaborative; turn zero to one ideas into real products, and you "get stuff done" end to end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you'll tackle complex, high visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let's build what's next.

About The Team

As the senior engineer in our new Generative AI team, you will own the end to end development of AI driven solutions that redefine how we provide support and automation for both internal teams and external customers. You will shape the underlying architecture and APIs for advanced systems building cutting edge AI solutions that enable Airwallex to scale. Your contributions will directly influence innovation, set best practices, and establish the foundation for our expanding AI portfolio.

What You'll Do

If you are passionate about building AI solutions that directly impact customers, thrive on solving tough technical challenges, and embrace a product focused mindset, we invite you to shape the future of Finance and AI with us.

Responsibilities

• Build AI solutions to enable growth and drive internal efficiency across the business.
• Design and implement robust API and system architecture for new AI applications.
• Collaborate closely with a cross functional team to bring these AI solutions to life.
• Embrace the challenges of a fast paced, high growth environment with a focus on innovation.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years in backend software development, with a focus on AI.
• Experience building internal or customer facing products with LLMs.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Expertise in building efficient, large scale software systems.
• Skill in writing high quality, maintainable code.
• Experience in design and development of large scale distributed, high concurrency, high load, high availability systems.
• Excellent communication and mentoring abilities.
• A relevant degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or related fields.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with MLOps practices and deployment pipelines for AI driven products.

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Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don't regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Seniority level

Mid Senior level

Employment type

Full time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

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