Staff AI Engineer

About this role

ABOUT AIRWALLEX

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.

We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,700 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles https://www.airwallex.com/en-us/operating-principles to see it in full.

HOW YOU'LL MAKE IMPACT

As a Staff AI Engineer, you’ll define the technical direction for next-generation AI solutions that improve internal efficiency and transform how customers interact with Airwallex. You’ll design and implement robust APIs and system architectures for AI applications, including agentic experiences, language-model-powered workflows, search and data analysis systems. You’ll shape AI application roadmaps, research and apply emerging technologies, and partner with diverse cross-functional teams to turn product goals into reliable systems. You’ll also help resolve application issues and software bugs with prompt, effective solutions while maintaining a high bar for customer experience.

You’ll work from our Singapore office five days a week.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

ESSENTIALS

• 10+ years of experience in backend software development, with a passion for AI and language technologies.