Datacom

Senior Developer / Tech Lead - AI LAB

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6 days ago
Christchurch, New Zealand +4 moreStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and deliver innovative AI-driven software solutions for complex business challenges.
  • Deliver production generative-AI solutions such as chatbots, summarizers, and code assistants.
  • Deploy or fine-tune AI models using Azure or AWS AI platforms.
  • Implement RAG patterns, vector database solutions, model evaluation, agent workflows, and multimodal LLM use cases.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams as part of Datacom’s Digital Engineering team.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional software development experience, with Python and TypeScript preferred, plus production ML/AI experience.
  • Demonstrated delivery of at least one generative-AI solution in production.
  • Deep familiarity with transformers and orchestration stacks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or Semantic Kernel.
  • Practical experience deploying or fine-tuning models on Azure OpenAI, AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock, or SageMaker.
  • Hands-on experience with RAG patterns, vector databases, and evaluation metrics including BLEU, ROUGE-L, and GPTScore.
  • Cloud-native engineering experience with Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and automated testing.
  • Preferred qualifications include experience with AutoGen, CrewAI, tool-using agents, multimodal workflows, embedding models, advanced RAG variants, vector stores, streaming LLMs, and cross-modal embeddings.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement in Auckland.
  • Social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, and flexi-hours.
  • Professional development courses and career development opportunities.
  • Inclusive, collegial, flat-structured workplace with opportunities to work on enterprise technology challenges.
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