AI Engineer - GenAI Knowledge Activator
Talent
Date: 17 hours ago
City: Auckland, Auckland
Contract type: Contractor
Help shape one of the most ambitious AI transformations in Aotearoa. Our client is building an AI-enabled workforce and they need a seasoned AI engineer to drive the frameworks, tooling, and foundations that power intelligent agents across the business.
Auckland or Fully Remote (NZ-based only) | 6-Month Contract
Why This Role Matters
This isn’t just about building models, it’s about enabling others to build safely, efficiently, and at scale. You’ll join the Agentic Platforms team as a hands-on generalist who can think strategically, code practically, and communicate clearly with stakeholders from engineers to executives.
What You’ll Be Doing
You’ll work alongside passionate AI engineers in a lean, supportive squad. This role is replacing some of the hands-on bandwidth of the AI Engineering Lead, so autonomy, maturity, and strong decision-making are essential. You won’t just build-you’ll enable others to build better.
Tech Environment
Auckland or Fully Remote (NZ-based only) | 6-Month Contract
Why This Role Matters
This isn’t just about building models, it’s about enabling others to build safely, efficiently, and at scale. You’ll join the Agentic Platforms team as a hands-on generalist who can think strategically, code practically, and communicate clearly with stakeholders from engineers to executives.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Architecting and evolving AI frameworks and design patterns
- Enabling secure, accurate, and scalable AI agent deployments
- Developing best practice guidelines for internal teams adopting GenAI
- Supporting integrations with SharePoint, Confluence, ServiceNow, and Snowflake
- Collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders to translate complex needs into simple AI-powered solutions
- Driving knowledge sharing and standardisation across teams
- Strong hands-on experience with Generative AI development (LLMs, RAG)
- Proven history of building and maintaining AI/ML systems in production
- Confidence designing AI guidelines, frameworks, and patterns others can adopt
- Experience working across large organisations with varied stakeholder groups
- Fluency in Python and solid grounding in AI agent principles
- Familiar with integrating AI into enterprise systems and knowledge stores
- Comfortable with ambiguity, able to take initiative and guide best practice
You’ll work alongside passionate AI engineers in a lean, supportive squad. This role is replacing some of the hands-on bandwidth of the AI Engineering Lead, so autonomy, maturity, and strong decision-making are essential. You won’t just build-you’ll enable others to build better.
Tech Environment
- Python, GenAI, RAG, LLMs
- SharePoint, ServiceNow, Snowflake, Confluence
- Microsoft Copilot Studio, OpenAI, AWS Bedrock/Sagemaker
- Internal agent frameworks & orchestration tools
- 6-month contract with likely extension
- Fully remote if based outside Auckland
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