AI Prototyping & Automation Engineer

Southern Cross Health Insurance; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Five days wellbeing leave per year

Health insurance for you and your whān

Life insurance and discounts on pet &旅

Extra parental leave benefits and مالی

Workplace wellbeing programme

Flexi leave for study/volunteering

Annual volunteer day

Job summary

Southern Cross Health Insurance in Auckland is seeking a hands-on AI engineer to turn early ideas into prototypes and tests. You’ll build AI agents, automation workflows and integrations, then hand off proven work for scale.

You’ll switch between coding and business conversations, explaining trade-offs clearly and delivering tangible results that inform investment decisions. This role offers the chance to shape a new Data & AI function.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with generative AI tools and modern LLM-based systems.
• Experience building integrations through APIs, webhooks and automation platforms.
• Understanding of how automated workflows are assembled and operate.
• Technical AI/ML or software/analytics engineering background.
• Good judgement about what is viable to test and ship.
• Clear communication to explain feasibility in plain terms.
• Curiosity about what’s possible in AI with pragmatic solutions.
• Comfortable shipping without a complete brief and iterating quickly.

Responsibilities

• Build and iterate on AI-driven prototypes, scripts and automation workflows.
• Experiment with generative AI tools, agent frameworks and orchestration platforms.
• Connect APIs, SaaS tools and data systems to test workflows.
• Turn ambiguous ideas into small, testable technical experiments.
• Work closely with analysts, engineers and business teams to validate concepts fast.
• Document what works, what doesn’t, and what’s worth taking further.
• Demonstrate working prototypes to stakeholders to inform decisions.

Skills

Generative AI & LLMs

APIs & webhooks

Automation platforms

AI/ML background

Clear communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Analytics

Tools

Copilot

Claude

ChatGPT

Job description

Southern Cross Health Insurance in Auckland is seeking a hands-on AI engineer to turn early ideas into prototypes and tests. You’ll build AI agents, automation workflows and integrations, then hand off proven work for scale.

You’ll switch between coding and business conversations, explaining trade-offs clearly and delivering tangible results that inform investment decisions. This role offers the chance to shape a new Data & AI function.