Staff AI Systems Engineer - Lead End-to-End Co-Workers

Future Secure AI; Auckland; On-site; NZD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

A high-performance culture

State-of-the-art technology

Competitive salary

Job summary

Future Secure AI is seeking a Staff Software Engineer who is deeply technical, AI‑literate, and motivated to own the end‑to‑end creation of AI Co‑Workers. This role suits someone with strong software engineering fundamentals and hands‑on experience with modern AI systems who wants to lead real builds, not research projects.

You will lead the design and implementation from concept to production, translate business constraints into scalable AI solutions, own system architecture, and guide

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of small to mediums sized teams to deploy products.
• Strong background in software engineering with applied AI or ML experience.
• Hands-on experience with modern AI systems such as LLMs, learning models, or intelligent automation.
• Solid understanding of backend systems, APIs, data flows, and production architecture.
• Ability to reason about trade-offs across accuracy, latency, cost, scalability, and delivery speed.
• Experience guiding or mentoring other engineers through complex builds.
• Comfort explaining technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Bias toward ownership, learning, and shipping real systems.
• Curiosity about how AI systems behave in production, not just in theory.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and implementation of AI Co‑Workers from concept through production deployment
• Translate real business constraints into scalable AI and engineering solutions
• Own system architecture across models, orchestration logic, APIs, data pipelines, and integrations
• Lead technical decision‑making for LLM usage, model selection, prompt design, evaluation, and monitoring
• Guide AIEngineers through build, test, and release cycles
• Partner closely with Engagement Leads to align technical execution with value delivery
• Ensure engineering quality across performance, reliability, security, and maintainability
• Identify technical risks early and drive pragmatic solutions in ambiguous environments
• Contribute hands‑on to critical parts of the build while enabling the team to move faster

Skills

Leadership

Software engineering

Applied AI/ML experience

LLMs / AI systems

Backend systems

Job description

Future Secure AI is seeking a Staff Software Engineer who is deeply technical, AI‑literate, and motivated to own the end‑to‑end creation of AI Co‑Workers. This role suits someone with strong software engineering fundamentals and hands‑on experience with modern AI systems who wants to lead real builds, not research projects.

You will lead the design and implementation from concept to production, translate business constraints into scalable AI solutions, own system architecture, and guide