Top Artificial Intelligence Jobs in Wellington

Lead the design, delivery, and operation of enterprise-scale data platforms, pipelines, and products supporting analytics, business intelligence, machine learning, and AI. Shape NZTA’s modern data platform, establish engineering standards, manage technical debt, and ensure secure, reliable, governed solutions. Work across squads and programmes while coaching data engineers, influencing technical outcomes, and contributing to continuous improvement and engineering excellence.

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.

Manage the APAC payroll operations function, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll processing across countries. Lead, mentor, and support the payroll team; oversee relationships with payroll, accounting, and external service providers; coordinate with internal and external stakeholders; monitor international payroll regulations; and implement best practices, KPIs, and SLA metrics to improve performance.

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.

Early-career DevOps role focusing on Kubernetes and AWS operations, embedding security into the development lifecycle, automating processes, and implementing CI/CD solutions. Remote, fixed-term accelerator program for students and recent graduates.

Seeking a passionate AI development lead with 7+ years in software development, focusing on innovative AI-driven solutions. Collaborate with teams to deliver generative AI applications and utilize cloud-native technologies for production deployments.

Lead a team of Cloud Solution Architects to drive customer ROI on Microsoft Copilot and agentic AI. Own executive relationships, billable consumption, pipeline and forecasting, delivery governance, CSAT, and technical leadership across M365 Copilot, Power Platform, Azure AI Foundry, identity, protection, and governance while developing leaders and reusable IP.

Design and implement backend AI systems centered on LLMs and agentic workflows. Build AI agent orchestration (model/tool calling, multi-step reasoning, state management, error handling), integrate models, RAG, and inference services, optimize for high concurrency (streaming responses, async scheduling, caching, cost control), and collaborate with product, frontend, algorithm, and platform teams to deliver scalable AI capabilities.

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.

Lead enterprise AI strategy, operating model, governance, platform enablement, and CoE to deploy safe, compliant, and scalable AI across R&D, Clinical, Manufacturing, Quality, Commercial, and Corporate functions in a regulated pharmaceutical environment.

Ship real open-source integrations and MCP servers to bring SearchApi to agent and automation frameworks. Create PRs, example apps, docs, and integration guides. Stay current with the agent ecosystem, pick high-leverage targets, and work independently to deliver production-ready integrations.

Develop and maintain scalable backend services and APIs, collaborate with frontend developers, and lead new features and infrastructure improvements.

Support ZURU's AI Integration team by embedding within business teams to identify AI opportunities, run upskilling workshops, and implement quick-win AI solutions to boost productivity and adoption.

Build and maintain production data pipelines ingesting from SAP, POS, logistics and marketing systems. Migrate legacy pipelines to modern architectures, monitor and improve data quality, support platform infrastructure, collaborate cross-functionally, document processes, and apply automation and AI to improve workflows.

Run focused one-week AI sprints with business teams to identify automation opportunities, build and validate AI-powered prototypes (knowledge bots, RAG systems, agents, web apps), connect tools to data sources, deploy infrastructure (Terraform/AWS/CI-CD), upskill teams via workshops, and hand off validated PoCs to engineering for production.

Own end-to-end Instagram Reels production: ideation, scripting, editing, and delivery. Use AI tools to support ideation and production, test formats, optimize for retention, and stay on top of short-form video trends to grow international audiences.

Develop AI-powered systems for supply chain workflows. Implement agentic AI features, build backend services, and support testing and validation for AI systems.

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.