Top Artificial Intelligence Jobs in New Zealand

Identify patentable inventions across firmware, software, machine learning, electronics, and mechanical systems; draft patent specifications and claims; manage prosecution; lead freedom-to-operate and invalidity work; and develop AI-enhanced intellectual property tools. The role partners closely with engineers, analyzes design documents and code, identifies patent whitespace, and helps shape scalable IP processes for Halter’s rapidly expanding technology portfolio.

Own an enterprise agricultural sales territory, generating pipeline and closing high-value deals with growers, farm-management companies, and institutional landowners. Responsibilities include prospecting, discovery, in-field demonstrations, ROI development, negotiation, forecasting, CRM management, account expansion, and coordination with deployment and customer success teams. The role requires strong agricultural knowledge, enterprise sales experience, independent territory development, and approximately 25% travel.

Executive engineering leader reporting to the CEO, responsible for technology strategy, engineering roadmaps, software and platform delivery, scalability, reliability, cybersecurity, quality assurance, incident management, and team development. The role translates customer and commercial priorities into technical solutions, leads engineering leaders, partners with Product and business functions, and provides executive-level technical direction across SaaS, AI, infrastructure, integrations, and field-deployed technology.

Designs, builds, deploys, and supports AWS cloud environments for diverse customers. The role focuses on infrastructure automation, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, observability, security governance, incident and problem management, cloud optimization, and continuous service improvement. Responsibilities include advising customers, enabling cloud adoption, supporting mission-critical production environments, contributing to platform strategy, and participating in an after-hours on-call roster.

Lead strategy and execution for Xero’s AI Shared Services platform, including eventing, communications, search, and related reusable capabilities. Define the domain roadmap, establish success metrics and dashboards, build stakeholder relationships, and drive adoption across product and engineering teams. The role requires managing interdependent platform products, applying technical fluency across distributed systems and cloud environments, making investment cases, navigating ambiguity and dependencies, and growing high-performing people and teams.

Lead the strategy, development, and scaling of shared platforms and operating models for AI-native delivery. Align stakeholders, establish roadmaps and governance, measure adoption and organizational impact, and move AI workflows from pilots into repeatable products. Partner with Engineering, Security, Data, and other teams while coaching teams in effective AI product practices and translating complex technical capabilities into investment decisions.

Manage complex employee exits across international jurisdictions, ensuring legal compliance, accurate documentation, confidentiality, and a high-quality client experience. Provide first-level employee relations guidance, assess workplace concerns, advise on discipline and investigations, and lead difficult conversations, negotiations, and termination processes. Coordinate with payroll, legal, benefits, and other stakeholders while mentoring junior colleagues. Drive process improvements, automation, product development, and customer experience initiatives in a remote, international environment.

Join Welo Data’s global contributor network for flexible, remote AI projects involving text, image, or audio annotation; search, advertising, and chatbot evaluation; prompt creation; and cultural or linguistic quality review. Projects vary from several days to weeks, with scope, timelines, and compensation provided before each assignment. Applicants must be native or near-native English speakers based in New Zealand and comfortable using digital tools.

Lead recruitment, onboarding, performance development, succession planning, recognition, and people operations while introducing AI learning, workshops, and capability-building initiatives. Use people data and insights to improve organizational effectiveness, strengthen HR policies and processes, and serve as a trusted People and Culture partner across the company.

Own the APAC payroll function, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll processing across countries. Lead, mentor, and support the payroll team; manage internal, external, and third-party payroll service relationships; monitor international payroll regulations; and implement best practices, KPIs, and SLA metrics. The role requires strong regional payroll expertise, analytical problem-solving, process improvement, stakeholder management, and proficiency with SAP and spreadsheet tools in a remote, asynchronous environment.

Leads the University’s domestic postgraduate recruitment strategy, growth funnel, employer and government partnerships, B2B and B2C acquisition, forecasting, reporting, conversion optimization, technology initiatives, budgets, and high-performing teams. Advises senior stakeholders on market insights and commercial growth while building a scalable recruitment function for professional, postgraduate, and doctoral learners.

Leads ML and platform engineering teams building scalable, production-grade machine learning infrastructure. Responsibilities include coaching engineers, guiding architecture and engineering trade-offs, improving MLOps maturity and observability, translating business goals into delivery plans, managing roadmaps, maintaining system health, and supporting production incidents through code review, debugging, or hands-on development. The role supports AI products including conversational GenAI, automated bank reconciliation, document capture, and cash-flow forecasting.

Leads enterprise-wide digital, data, technology, and transformation strategy for New Zealand’s largest farming business. The role connects technology initiatives with commercial farm performance, sustainability, productivity, decision-making, and cyber resilience. Responsibilities include advancing AI, automation, connected technology, enterprise systems, and data-led tools; leading technology and transformation teams; partnering with executives, boards, farming teams, industry partners, and innovators; and supporting sector-wide initiatives such as the LIFT programme. Regular travel across farms and partner locations is required.

Manage complex employee exits across APAC jurisdictions, ensuring legal compliance, accurate documentation, and a positive client and employee experience. Provide first-level employee relations guidance, assess workplace concerns, advise on discipline and investigations, lead difficult conversations and negotiations, and coordinate with legal, payroll, unions, and other stakeholders. Mentor junior colleagues, maintain confidential records, and drive process improvements, automation, and customer experience enhancements.

Leads Datacom’s strategic growth across the Wellington public sector market. Builds executive government relationships, develops account strategies, guides strategic pursuits, and drives Whole-of-Government engagement. Translates New Zealand Government priorities, policies, and procurement frameworks into commercial growth strategies across AI, resilience, and digital transformation. Provides thought leadership, coordinates cross-functional teams, strengthens strategic partnerships, and supports sustainable commercial outcomes through account planning and governance.

Leads global financial control for a high-growth multinational, overseeing IFRS consolidation across 50+ entities, statutory reporting, audits, treasury, technical accounting, finance processes, SAP S/4HANA, product and factory costing, and AI-driven automation. Manages finance leadership and a large shared-services team while maintaining balance-sheet integrity, strengthening controls, and partnering with FP&A, tax, and SAP IT teams.

The Senior AI Developer will design and implement AI solutions for engineering teams, focusing on document intelligence, machine learning, and automation in a collaborative, agile environment.

10-week onsite engineering internship working with engineers to develop edge-based video AI and imaging solutions, including training AI models, building proofs-of-concept for solar/battery cameras, and applied computer vision research.

Lead technical engagements to design, validate, and deploy secure, scalable Azure architectures for AI and enterprise workloads. Drive technical sales through demos, POCs, and workshops; design hybrid networking, migration, containerization (AKS), and partner integrations (NetApp, VMware, SAP/Oracle); resolve technical blockers and collaborate with stakeholders and partners to move solutions from proof-of-concept to production.

Join a remote global contributor network supporting AI data projects. Depending on project availability, contributors may annotate text, images, or audio; evaluate search results, advertisements, or chatbot responses; create prompts for large language models; and assess cultural and linguistic accuracy. Projects vary from several days to weeks, with compensation and details provided before participation.

Leads digital and Generative AI communications capability across the University. Develops responsible-use guidance, standards, training, resources, and AI-enabled workflows; identifies opportunities to improve content effectiveness and audience engagement; monitors emerging trends; and coaches stakeholders on practical digital innovation. The role bridges communications practice and technology to support experimentation, continuous improvement, and stronger storytelling across a complex organisation.

Architect, operate, and scale production agentic platforms and developer tooling, including PR review agents, SDLC copilots, and context engines. Establish reliability, observability, cost governance, evaluation, and safety practices for non-deterministic workloads. Improve developer experience through CI, local development, and AWS serverless optimization. Drive adoption across engineering teams through technical leadership, pairing, mentorship, and communication.

Lead the design, build, and embedding of agentic AI solutions across the business. Combine business analysis and hands-on model work to map workflows, elicit expert knowledge, design agent interactions, iterate on prompts and agents, and upskill teams to maintain AI capability. Support Beca's AI strategic programme and deliver measurable improvements in efficiency and outcomes.

The Senior Software Engineer in Test builds and executes automated tests, develops testing tools, and collaborates on technical designs while ensuring system testability for the TraceLink platform.

Create high-impact AI-generated video and animated ad creatives from brief to final delivery. Use generative AI tools for ideation, moodboarding, prompt engineering, asset variation, and production polish. Collaborate with business and local market teams, present work to stakeholders, and optimize creative performance for marketing and paid ads.