ML Engineer - Dairy AI & Vision Systems

Walker Smith; Christchurch; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Herd-i Operations Limited in Christchurch is seeking a talented Machine Learning Engineer to enhance our AI product for dairy herd health. You will develop cow detection and keypoint models, build end-to-end MLOps pipelines, and collaborate across teams to deliver high-performing AI solutions.

You will preprocess data, engineer features, and evaluate models to improve detection accuracy and early illness signals, while staying current with ML advances and applying them to our innovative

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/Data Science/ML or related field.
• 1–2 years of experience deploying ML models in production.
• Strong Python and ML framework experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop, optimise, and maintain ML models including cow detection and keypoint models.
• Design and implement MLOps pipelines for training, deployment, and monitoring.
• Preprocess data, engineer features, and evaluate models for high performance.
• Improve accuracy of detection and illness signals in dairy cows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into AI solutions.
• Stay current with ML advances and apply them to Herd-i products.

Skills

Python

Computer Vision

MLOps

Communication

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/DS/ML

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

YOLO

RT-DETR

XGBoost

Job description

Herd-i Operations Limited in Christchurch is seeking a talented Machine Learning Engineer to enhance our AI product for dairy herd health. You will develop cow detection and keypoint models, build end-to-end MLOps pipelines, and collaborate across teams to deliver high-performing AI solutions.

You will preprocess data, engineer features, and evaluate models to improve detection accuracy and early illness signals, while staying current with ML advances and applying them to our innovative