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Urgent! Senior Ai Engineer Job Opening In Christchurch – Now Hiring Datacom

Senior Ai Engineer



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OverviewJoin to apply for the Senior AI Engineer role at Datacom.Our Why: Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people's lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.What You'll DoAs an AI Engineer – Apps (Senior IC), lead the development and operation of backend services that power agentic interactions and content ingestion at scale.Own service-level outcomes (reliability, performance, cost) and drive continuous improvement through observability and incident learnings.Apply sound architectural boundaries and interface contracts to enable safe evolution, testability, and provider interchangeability.Implement secure-by-default patterns for identity, access, secrets, and data protection, aligned to company standards and regulatory requirements.Partner with product, design, and platform teams to deliver iteratively, balancing speed and quality through automation and testing.Mentor peers, uphold engineering practices, and contribute to technical direction within your domain.Your impact is measured by service SLOs, developer productivity, security posture, and the value unlocked for customers through AI-enabled features.
This overview is stack-agnostic and focuses on outcomes; specific technologies may evolve over time.What You'll BringEssentialDeep knowledge of software design and performance engineering, including profiling, capacity, and scaling patterns.Strong experience building and operating APIs and event/data pipelines in production at scale.Proficiency with modern DevOps practices: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containerisation, and cloud operations.Demonstrated application of clean architecture principles (e.g., ports/adapters), interface contracts, and testability.Solid observability skills: distributed tracing, metrics, structured logging, and service-level objectives.Security-first mindset: authentication/authorization, least privilege, secret management, data protection, and secure coding.Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and the ability to align technical solutions with business outcomes.Proven analytical and problem-solving skills; exercises sound judgment in ambiguous environments.DesirableExperience integrating with LLM/AI services for embeddings, retrieval, reranking, and completions, including streaming responses.Building large-scale document ingestion and enrichment (extraction, chunking, semantic metadata) and content versioning.Event-driven architectures, background task orchestration, and scheduler design.Policy-based authorization modelling and claims mapping.Performance tuning and high-throughput async or concurrent service design.Why join us here at Datacom?
Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand's largest suppliers of IT professional services.
We maintain a dynamic, agile, small-business feel and value our people.
You'll have opportunities to learn, develop your career, and contribute in a collegial environment with flexible work options.Role DetailsSeniority level: Mid-Senior levelEmployment type: Full-timeJob function: Engineering and Information TechnologyIndustries: IT Services and IT ConsultingReferrals increase your chances of interviewing at Datacom.
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