Senior Consultant – AI Engineering

Role overview

Design, build and ship AI-native systems for client engagements, with models performing meaningful work such as reasoning, planning, using tools and acting within production workflows. The role spans the delivery lifecycle from architecture to implementation and observability, and combines hands-on engineering with client collaboration, independent ownership and mentoring.

Responsibilities - Understand client challenges across technical and business areas and contribute to practical solutions. - Design and deliver agentic workflows, tool-using models, automated pipelines and AI-integrated products. - Work across architecture, implementation and production monitoring and observability. - Investigate reliability challenges in agentic systems and improve how they perform in production. - Keep current with AI engineering developments, experiment with approaches and share useful learning with the team. - Support and mentor less experienced engineers on client and consulting teams.

Requirements - Demonstrated experience shipping AI systems in which models reason, plan, use tools or take actions in production. - Ability to work independently, identify where to contribute and take ownership through completion. - Strong collaboration and knowledge-sharing habits, with curiosity about how systems work and willingness to examine assumptions. - Experience across the AI engineering delivery lifecycle, including production observability. - Adaptability across technologies and ability to assess engineering trade-offs.

Benefits and work setup Associate contractor position with competitive remuneration. Remote-first and flexible, with preference for candidates in the Auckland region; occasional client-site and team travel is required. The role description also cites work-life balance, meaningful client work, a stable team and exposure to complex engineering problems.