Senior AI Software Engineer

Datacom; Tauranga; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible and hybrid working options

Paid parental leave

24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (Dt

Job summary

Datacom is seeking Senior/Tech Leads and Senior Developers to join our Digital Engineering team in New Zealand, focusing on AI-driven software solutions. You will work on cutting-edge projects, delivering AI models and applications that address complex business challenges across cross-functional teams.

You will contribute to the AI uplift in the NZ market, collaborating to design, develop, and deploy generative AI solutions, with a strong emphasis on production-readiness and scalable

Qualifications

• 7+ years professional software development with production ML/AI experience.
• Delivery of at least one generative-AI solution in production (chatbot, summariser, code assistant).
• 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 skills: Docker, Kubernetes (AKS/EKS), infra-as-code and automated testing.

Skills

Python

Typescript

ML/AI experience

Generative AI

LangChain

Azure OpenAI

AWS SageMaker

Docker

Kubernetes

RAG patterns

Vector databases

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Semantic Kernel

Azure OpenAI

AI Foundry

SageMaker

Docker

Kubernetes

AKS

EKS

Job description

Datacom is seeking Senior/Tech Leads and Senior Developers to join our Digital Engineering team in New Zealand, focusing on AI-driven software solutions. You will work on cutting-edge projects, delivering AI models and applications that address complex business challenges across cross-functional teams.

You will contribute to the AI uplift in the NZ market, collaborating to design, develop, and deploy generative AI solutions, with a strong emphasis on production-readiness and scalable