Senior Software Engineer (AI)

At Seequent, we help organisations to understand the underground, giving the confidence to make better decisions faster.

We build world-leading technology that is at the forefront of Earth sciences, transforming the way our customers work. Every day we help them develop critical mineral resources more sustainably, design and build better infrastructure, source renewable energy, and reduce their impact on the environment.

We operate in 145+ countries while proudly maintaining headquarters in New Zealand.

About The Role

As we continue to grow, we’re expanding our team and this is a great opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer to join a newly formed AI capability within Seequent Evo — our geoscience data platform used by earth scientists and engineers globally.

In this role, you’ll help build and deliver applied Generative AI (Gen AI) solutions, influencing how Gen AI is embedded into the platform and operated at scale. The systems you deliver will enable customers to surface insights from their data, simplify workflows, and make more informed decisions.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Design and architect GenAI solutions using appropriate modelling techniques and agreed engineering standards.
• Produce and communicate design views that address stakeholder needs and meet functional and non-functional requirements, including security.
• Identify design trade-offs, evaluate alternatives, and prototype or model behaviours to secure stakeholder alignment.
• Build, test, document, and maintain complex software and integration services; refactor and improve codebase quality over time.
• Advocate for effective engineering tools, techniques, and ways of working; monitor and improve adherence to standards (including software security).
• Lead reviews of colleagues’ designs and code; provide technical mentorship and guidance across the team.
• Plan and coordinate release activities across teams, ensuring quality, security, and compliance standards are met; lead post-release reviews.
• Deliver small projects/sub-projects end-to-end: scope, schedule, risk, stakeholder alignment, governance, and outcome tracking.
• Contribute to building the new team as we hire and scale.

To be successful in this role, you should have:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent.
• 7+ years working in relevant Software Engineering roles.
• 1+ years building and operating Gen AI products using LLMs in production environments.
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, semantic search and vector databases, and how to optimize knowledge retrieval for better results
• MCP (Model Context Protocol), A2A (Agent2Agent Protocol) and/or similar frameworks for exposing services to agentic applications.
• Familiarity with developing cloud services, particularly experience with Docker, Kubernetes, FastAPI a bonus.
• Familiarity with CI/CD Pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Strong stakeholder communication, the ability to work autonomously, and confidence mentoring others and driving good engineering practices.

Additional Information

Office-based working environment, work from our Christchurch office three or more days per week.

Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

At Seequent, we champion the uniqueness of each individual. Our commitment to inclusiveness, equity, and accessibility is fundamental to who we are. If you require accommodation during our recruitment process, please let our Talent Acquisition team know. We are here to ensure a fair opportunity for all.

Research underscores that some individuals, especially women and underrepresented groups, may hesitate to apply for roles if they don't meet every requirement. Please don't count yourself out if you don’t tick every box. We are committed to hiring a diverse team and encourage individuals of all background and abilities to apply. Thank you for considering us as your potential employer; we're excited to see what you can bring to our team!

Benefits of being a Seequenteer and why you’ll love being on our team.

Our people – Working at Seequent means becoming part of a community of collaborative innovators with insatiable curiosity and a passion to make a difference. Seequenteers are experts at what they do, visionaries with bold ideas for the future, and driven by a desire to make meaningful change.

Our culture – At Seequent you’ll be encouraged to Find a Better Way, Think Customer, Collaborate Enthusiastically, Exceed Expectations and Take Ownership, no matter what role you’re in. Our values define a culture of open mindedness, connected teams despite geographical distance, transparent communication, and leadership at any level, where everyone is welcome as their authentic self.

Our offices – Seequent operates from offices all over the world; as part of the Bentley Systems family. Our office hubs are fueled by barista-crafted coffee, games, table tennis, Lego, online trivia battles, and regular office team events. We like to celebrate our wins with cake too, lots of cake.

Benefits – Competitive salary, flexible working, a paid day each year to volunteer, an employee share purchase plan in most locations, rewards & recognition program, continuous learning and career growth opportunities, internal engagement events, culture & wellbeing program, personal support resources. Additional benefits are unique to each location Seequent resides in.

How To Apply

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