Senior AI Developer – Build Real-World AI Solutions

Datacom; Christchurch; Hybrid; NZD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Learning & development

Career development

Employee discounts

Wellbeing support

Job summary

Datacom is seeking Senior/Tech Lead and Senior Developers to join our AI-focused Digital Engineering team in New Zealand. You will work on cutting-edge AI-driven software, collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy AI models addressing complex business challenges.

Bring 7+ years of software development with Python and Typescript and a strong passion for AI. The role offers hybrid working options, opportunities to grow, and meaningful impact for clients and

Qualifications

• 7+ years professional software development (Python and Typescript) with production ML/AI experience.
• Delivered 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.
• 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: Docker, Kubernetes (AKS/EKS), infra-as-code and automated testing.

Skills

Python

Typescript

ML/AI development

Generative AI in production

Transformers

LangChain

Cloud AI platforms

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure OpenAI

SageMaker

LangChain

Job description

Datacom is seeking Senior/Tech Lead and Senior Developers to join our AI-focused Digital Engineering team in New Zealand. You will work on cutting-edge AI-driven software, collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy AI models addressing complex business challenges.

Bring 7+ years of software development with Python and Typescript and a strong passion for AI. The role offers hybrid working options, opportunities to grow, and meaningful impact for clients and