6 months ago
Auckland, New ZealandEntry Level
Responsibilities
- Lead one-week sprints with business teams by shadowing workflows, identifying automation opportunities, building proofs of concept, and handing them off to engineering.
- Build AI-powered knowledge bots, RAG systems, data analysis agents, campaign reporting tools, and custom web applications.
- Connect AI tools to business data sources using semantic models, Databricks, and MCP connections.
- Deploy and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and AWS.
- Design RAG systems covering document ingestion, chunking, retrieval quality, and knowledge architecture.
- Run hands-on AI workshops and mentor team-level AI Champions.
- Contribute Claude skills, templates, and how-to guides to the shared skill library.
Requirements
- Comfortable reading and writing Python and JavaScript or TypeScript.
- Comfortable using AI coding tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or Claude Code.
- Experience building AI workflows and understanding LLM capabilities including agents, tool use, RAG, context engineering, and structured output.
- Ability to analyze complex business workflows and redesign them for automation.
- Strong communication skills for working with business units, explaining technical concepts, running workshops, and presenting to senior leadership.
- Ability to take problems from discovery through to working proofs of concept.
- Preferred experience includes Terraform, AWS or similar cloud environments, data pipelines, semantic layers such as dbt, vector databases, embeddings, retrieval systems, hackathons, side projects, open-source contributions, or end-to-end academic, personal, or professional projects.
Benefits
- Health benefits.
- Global opportunities and a high-performing team culture focused on growth.
- Fresh fruit, coffee, and a pals fridge.
- Competitive remuneration.
- Work across ZURU’s global business units in New Zealand, China, and the United States.
Tech Stack
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About ZURU
ZURU is a privately held manufacturer headquartered in Hong Kong and founded in 2003, spanning ZURU Toys, ZURU Edge (consumer goods), and ZURU Tech (construction technology). It sells toy brands such as Bunch O Balloons and X-Shot through major retailers in over 120 countries and licenses IP from studios including Disney and Nickelodeon. ZURU Tech builds BIM software that connects directly to automated production for construction components.