Senior AI Engineer & Tech Lead — Hybrid, Impactful Role

Datacom; Tauranga; Hybrid; NZD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible and hybrid working options

Paid parental leave

24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (eA

Ongoing learning and career growth

Industry-leading learning platforms

Job summary

Datacom in Tauranga, New Zealand, is seeking a Senior/Tech Lead AI Engineer to join our Digital Engineering AI team. You will design, develop, and deploy AI-driven software solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams on cutting-edge projects and globally relevant models.

We value strong software engineering, production AI delivery, and practical knowledge of model context, retrieval, embeddings, and tool calling.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional development experience with Python and/or TypeScript.
• Production AI delivery: at least one generative-AI app on Azure OpenAI, Foundry or Bedrock.
• Practical AI understanding: retrieval, embeddings, data integration and tool calls.
• Reliable implementation: diagnose failures, manage API limits and timeouts.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Azure OpenAI

Retrieval & embeddings

Model orchestration

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Microsoft Foundry

Job description

Datacom in Tauranga, New Zealand, is seeking a Senior/Tech Lead AI Engineer to join our Digital Engineering AI team. You will design, develop, and deploy AI-driven software solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams on cutting-edge projects and globally relevant models.

We value strong software engineering, production AI delivery, and practical knowledge of model context, retrieval, embeddings, and tool calling.