Top Artificial Intelligence Jobs in Wellington

Lead full-stack engineering for foundational Practice Tools systems, delivering billing changes, Xero Partner Hub rollout, legacy system retirement, authorization improvements, and reliable infrastructure. Build with React and JavaScript or TypeScript alongside Java or .NET, manage CI/CD, monitoring, and alerting, and drive adoption of AI-assisted and agentic development workflows. Mentor engineers and guide technical methodology while progressing toward senior technical leadership.

Provides senior technology consulting and technical leadership for HPC and AI deployment solutions. Designs enterprise architectures, leads cross-functional implementation teams, resolves complex multi-vendor technology issues, advises senior customer IT leadership, and supports proposals and sales activities. Develops reusable solutions, creates project plans and architecture specifications, presents at technical conferences, mentors consultants, and cultivates strategic customer relationships.

Leads complex AI and business process transformation sales opportunities across assigned customers. Responsibilities include executive discovery, solution envisioning, business value assessments, competitive positioning, proposal development, business-case creation, partner coordination, and transformation roadmap development. The role builds senior stakeholder relationships, advances qualified pipeline revenue, aligns customer success plans and KPIs, and serves as a trusted specialist for Microsoft Business Applications, Copilot, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and AI solutions.

Evaluate AI coding agents such as Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor for engineering judgment, reasoning quality, usefulness, and trustworthiness. Provide clear written feedback, distinguish response quality levels, and explain assessments through short videos. The role requires senior-level software engineering experience, strong TypeScript/JavaScript or Python skills, familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows, and the ability to make rigorous, opinionated judgments without reviewing every line of code.

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.

Leads BDO’s enterprise Talent Management and Workforce Insights portfolio, including total rewards, people analytics, organizational development, HR operations, and service delivery. Translates people strategy into measurable business outcomes, advances workforce data governance and analytics, modernizes HR processes through technology and AI, and strengthens leadership, organizational effectiveness, performance, wellbeing, and succession. Advises senior leaders, leads specialist teams, and drives integrated, scalable people programs across the firm.

Designs reference architectures for AI data center networks, including L2/L3 fabrics, BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, RoCEv2, and QoS. Builds and operates labs to qualify switches, NICs, and network operating systems; performs interoperability and performance testing; reproduces complex customer issues; and troubleshoots congestion, packet loss, MTU, latency, PFC, and ECN behavior. Documents best practices, develops automation, collaborates with vendors and internal teams, and provides feedback to product R&D.

AI/ML Engineers will build and deploy AI-native products, autonomous agents, LLM applications, RAG systems, and production ML pipelines. Responsibilities may include integrating AI into crypto infrastructure and consumer products, fine-tuning and evaluating models, optimizing inference, and developing agentic workflows and machine-to-machine payment systems. Engineers will work end-to-end with high-ownership teams in fast-moving environments.

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.

Design and prototype creative product experiences for Envato’s AI-powered tools. Apply exceptional visual craft across typography, composition, hierarchy, motion, and interaction; explore ideas with AI; test concepts with customers and teammates; and develop promising prototypes into core product experiences. Candidates may come from university, freelance work, independent projects, or other creative disciplines and must demonstrate work they have built using AI alongside strong visual design.

Design beautiful, intuitive product experiences for Envato’s creative tools. Translate early ideas into polished workflows, prototype with Figma, code, motion, and AI-assisted tools, and collaborate closely with Product and Engineering. Shape Envato’s visual language while balancing visual craft, UX clarity, product thinking, and commercial outcomes. Applicants should demonstrate visual craft and an AI-built project, explaining their contribution, tools, and design decisions.

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.

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.

Own and develop production data pipelines across SAP, retail, logistics, and marketing systems. Design scalable architectures, migrate legacy pipelines, model data for analytics and AI, and implement testing, observability, alerting, governance, and automation. Partner with business stakeholders to create trusted datasets, improve platform infrastructure, and mentor junior engineers. The role requires strong SQL and Python, dbt, cloud data platform experience, orchestration, production debugging, and end-to-end ownership.

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.

Manage and optimize Google and Meta Ads campaigns, develop paid acquisition strategies, analyze performance, and validate AI-generated recommendations. Advise clients on performance marketing, branding, creative, and growth strategy while building strong relationships. Collaborate with analytics, tracking, Google Merchant Center, and dashboarding specialists. This is a remote, freelance, part-time engagement of approximately 15 hours weekly for six months.

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.

Participate in smart contract audits for ERC token contracts, identifying security vulnerabilities and attack vectors. Develop AI and LLM-based tools to automate vulnerability detection and improve audit coverage. Analyze Web3 security incidents, including root causes, vulnerability types, and impacts, to optimize audit processes. The role requires Solidity proficiency, knowledge of EVM internals and ERC standards, and familiarity with Ethereum, BSC, DeFi, and L1/L2 architectures.

Own post-sale relationships for B2B software customers, managing onboarding, AI agent configuration, integrations, testing, troubleshooting, adoption, retention, and account expansion. Monitor account health, resolve issues quickly, document customer interactions, lead implementation and check-in calls, and provide product feedback. The role is fully remote and requires availability during US business hours.

Test and validate GPU/HPC servers across factory floors and hardware labs. Responsibilities include board and system bring-up, stress testing, firmware and driver troubleshooting, GPU benchmarking with CUDA and NCCL, quality control, root-cause analysis, test procedure development, documentation, and coordination with manufacturers and suppliers in English and Mandarin.

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.

Lead design and implementation of large-scale distributed production systems powering generative AI features. Own architecture, mentor engineers, manage technical debt, operationalize ML/LLM models, and collaborate with scientists to productionize research using Python, SQL, Spark/Dask, AWS, and Kubernetes.

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.