AI Senior Developer – Hybrid & Impact

Datacom; Hamilton; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave

Learning opportunities

Career development

Employee discounts

Wellbeing support

DataCare

Job summary

Datacom is accelerating its AI uplift in the NZ market. We’re seeking Senior/Tech Leads and Senior Developers who are passionate about AI development to join our Digital Engineering team and help deliver AI-driven software solutions.

You’ll work on cutting-edge projects, collaborate across functions, and apply the latest AI models to address real business challenges. This is a hybrid role with clear opportunities for growth and impact.

Qualifications

• 7+ years professional software development (Python and Typescript preferred) with production ML/AI experience.
• Demonstrated delivery of at least one generative-AI solution in production (chatbot, summariser, code assistant, etc.)
• Deep familiarity with transformers and orchestration stacks such as LangChain v0.2+, LlamaIndex or Semantic Kernel
• Practical experience deploying or fine-tuning models on Azure OpenAI / AI Foundry or AWS Bedrock / SageMaker
• Hands-on with RAG patterns, vector databases and evaluation metrics (BLEU, ROUGE-L, GPTScore)
• Cloud-native engineering skills: Docker, Kubernetes (AKS/EKS), infra-as-code and automated testing

Skills

Python

Typescript

ML/AI experience

Generative AI

Transformers

Azure OpenAI

AWS Bedrock

Docker

Kubernetes

Infra-as-code

Automated testing

RAG patterns

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Semantic Kernel

Azure AI Search

Pinecone

Qdrant

FAISS

Job description

Datacom is accelerating its AI uplift in the NZ market. We’re seeking Senior/Tech Leads and Senior Developers who are passionate about AI development to join our Digital Engineering team and help deliver AI-driven software solutions.

You’ll work on cutting-edge projects, collaborate across functions, and apply the latest AI models to address real business challenges. This is a hybrid role with clear opportunities for growth and impact.