Senior AI Engineer

Senior AI Engineer

Contract Type:

Full Time

Location:

Auckland - Auckland

Industry:

Data Analytics & Business Intelligence

Contact Name:

Kaleb Leeming

Contact Email:

kaleb@recruitit.co.nz

Contact Phone:

0064 27 201 8152

Date Published:

14-12-2025

Location: Remote across New Zealand or Australia

About the Role
  • Are you a seasoned AI engineer with a track record of deploying ML and GenAI features into production? This is your opportunity to join a rapidly scaling SaaS company delivering innovative AI-powered products that are already transforming industries.
  • You’ll play a pivotal role in building LLM control systems, designing solutions that ensure AI-generated responses are accurate, reliable, and aligned with real-world expectations. Your focus won’t be on research or experimentation in isolation; this is about impact. You’ll be working on production-grade systems used by thousands of users globally.
  • This is a senior-level position where your experience in shipping ML code to production, particularly in SaaS environments, will be highly valued. You’ll join a collaborative and highly skilled engineering team that moves fast and values autonomy, innovation, and ownership.

Key Responsibilities
  • Architect and implement control systems for LLMs that ensure consistent, accurate, and contextually aware outputs
  • Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to design, develop, and deploy GenAI-powered features
  • Lead experimentation, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and evaluation strategies for LLMs in production
  • Monitor performance, user impact, and reliability of deployed AI features
  • Mentor and guide junior engineers and data scientists in production-grade ML practices

What We're Looking For
  • Proven experience delivering ML or GenAI features into production within SaaS environments
  • Hands-on expertise with LLMs and transformers (e.g., OpenAI, Hugging Face, LangChain, etc.)
  • Strong software engineering background, and ability to write clean, production-quality Python or similar code
  • Deep understanding of LLM behaviours, hallucination prevention, prompt engineering, and system tuning
  • Experience building pipelines and integrating ML systems into modern cloud-native SaaS products
  • Strong communication skills and ability to articulate technical decisions and trade-offs

Bonus Points For
  • Familiarity with reinforcement learning, vector databases, or RAG architectures
  • Exposure to observability and monitoring of ML/AI systems in production

Why Join This Team?
  • Work remotely from anywhere in NZ or Australia
  • Contribute to real-world AI applications, not just proof of concepts
  • Fast-paced, product-led SaaS company with a strong engineering culture

How to Apply
If you’re a Senior AI Engineer ready to ship meaningful AI products at scale, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and we’ll be in touch if you’re shortlisted.




Apply for this job

Share this job

Interested in this job?
Save Job
Create As Alert

Similar Jobs

Read More
SCHEMA MARKUP ( This text will only show on the editor. )