Senior Agentic AI Engineer & Data Scientist

Future Secure AI; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Future Secure AI seeks a Senior Data Scientist to lead engineering of agentic AI co-workers and autonomous workflows. You will architect advanced, scalable LLM-driven agents and mentor a growing team in a fast-moving AI environment.

You’ll shape the platform's technical direction, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and deliver high-value outcomes for global clients while maintaining rigorous safety and governance practices.

Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD in a quantitative discipline.
• Experience delivering ML solutions in complex environments.
• Strong NLP foundations: transformers, LSTMs, CNNs, topic modelling.
• Hands-on experience with LLM orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex), RAG, multi-agent systems, or tool-calling architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy agentic LLM‑driven systems with planning, tool‑use, workflow orchestration, and reasoning capabilities
• Apply machine learning and advanced analytics to power decision‑making within autonomous AI Co‑workers
• Enhance multi‑step reasoning quality, context management, and agent performance across real enterprise use cases
• Lead MLOps initiatives across evaluation, benchmarking, safety, and quality for autonomous systems
• Define long‑term strategy for agentic AI frameworks, governance, and scalable deployment patterns
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and executive teams to build production‑grade AI co‑workers used by global clients
• Mentor and uplift junior data scientists, raising the bar for scientific and engineering excellence

Skills

NLP foundations

LLM orchestration frameworks

Python for ML/AI

Software development experience

Education

Master’s or PhD in a quantitative discipline

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

RAG

Multi-agent systems

Tool‑calling architectures

Job description

Future Secure AI seeks a Senior Data Scientist to lead engineering of agentic AI co-workers and autonomous workflows. You will architect advanced, scalable LLM-driven agents and mentor a growing team in a fast-moving AI environment.

You’ll shape the platform's technical direction, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and deliver high-value outcomes for global clients while maintaining rigorous safety and governance practices.