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Senior AI Engineer

KPMG NZ· Business Enablement – IT Services
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Hybrid (Auckland)Permanent Full-TimePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior AI Engineer to lead design and delivery of transformative AI solutions, focusing on scalable, secure systems that drive firm value. Hybrid, Auckland, permanent full-time.

Responsibilities

  • Leverage AI tooling like Copilot to accelerate delivery, while critically reviewing and hardening the infrastructure, pipelines, and code it produces.
  • Lead AI implementations end-to-end, delivering to established technical direction and standards for how AI-assisted work is reviewed, secured, and shipped.
  • Identify where AI can genuinely improve business workflows, and deliver solutions that automate and streamline them with measurable impact.
  • Design and secure AI solutions with strong data protection and access controls.
  • Own AI services in production, building the monitoring, guardrails, and evaluation that keep AI dependable and measurable.

Qualifications

  • Strong proficiency in Python and TypeScript/JavaScript, fluent enough to read, reason about, and verify code deeply, including what AI generates.
  • Proven experience building and running production systems end-to-end, with hands-on CI/CD, cloud, and security foundations that let you direct and validate AI-generated work, not just produce it.
  • Strong cloud and AI engineering fundamentals, especially Azure, deploying and operating hosted model services (e.g. Azure AI Foundry / Azure OpenAI) reliably and cost-effectively.
  • Keeps code maintainable and well-tested, whether hand-written or AI-generated, so a growing codebase stays safe to build on.
  • Hands-on experience testing and evaluating AI systems, including agent behaviour, tool use, and multi-step trajectories, to measure quality and catch regressions before release.
  • Familiarity with designing agentic workflows and orchestrating tool-using agents, and the trade-offs across RAG and retrieval approaches.
  • A versatile, pragmatic engineer who moves easily across the stack and enjoys taking on unfamiliar problems.

Skills

Required:PythonTypeScript/JavaScript

Benefits

  • Access to the firm's annual incentive scheme
  • Opportunities for local and international secondments
  • Hybrid working across a mix of office, client and home hubs
  • The ability to work from overseas and extend time connecting with friends and family outside New Zealand
  • Flexible leave options, including the ability to purchase additional annual leave
  • Gender-neutral parental leave with 18 weeks fully paid for all new parents
  • A paid professional association membership of your choice
  • Digital accreditations through Microsoft, LinkedIn Learning with bespoke learning pathways
  • Discounts on insurances, banking services, and lifestyle goods and services
  • Support for Inclusion, Diversity and Equity networks (Kiwa, Pride, Ethnicity, Accessibility, Wahine)
  • Green Team participation and environmental initiatives toward carbon zero by 2030
  • Social clubs and events for social, sporting, cultural, family, and fundraising activities
  • Paid volunteering/time off for citizenship activities
  • Wellbeing benefits including flu vaccinations, subsidised sporting events, confidential counselling, 5 days Wellbeing leave, Wellbeing portal access
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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