At a Glance
- Tasks: Join our AI journey, developing innovative software solutions that tackle real-world challenges.
- Company: Datacom, a leading tech provider in Australasia, committed to meaningful outcomes.
- Benefits: Flexible working options, paid parental leave, and ongoing learning opportunities.
- Other info: Supportive culture prioritising wellbeing and career growth.
- Why this job: Be part of a game-changing AI uplift and make a genuine impact.
- Qualifications: 7+ years in software development with a passion for AI and production ML/AI experience.
The predicted salary is between 90000 - 110000 $ per year.
About Us
At Datacom, we combine technology, expertise, and talented people to help organisations thrive in a rapidly changing world. As one of Australasia's leading technology providers, we work with customers across industries to solve real-world problems and deliver meaningful outcomes. Whether we're supporting governments, enterprise organisations, or growing businesses, we're committed to creating meaningful outcomes for our customers, communities, and each other.
About the Role
The way we work and our customer needs are changing! We are going through a significant AI uplift that will be a real game changer in the NZ Market. Our customers are loving our story and excited about our new service solutions. As such we are seeking Senior/Tech Leads, and Senior Developers, who want to get on board our AI journey. We need someone who is passionate about AI development and wants to push boundaries. Your software background is key but your passion for AI is a must. This role will see you join our Digital Engineering team, focusing on delivering innovative AI-driven software solutions. We will offer you the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and use the latest AI Models that address complex business challenges.
What you’ll bring
- Must-haves:
- 7+ years professional software development (Python and Typescript preferred) with production ML/AI experience
- Demonstrated delivery of at least one generative-AI solution in production (chatbot, summariser, code assistant, etc.)
- Deep familiarity with transformers and orchestration stacks such as LangChain v0.2+, LlamaIndex or Semantic Kernel
- Practical experience deploying or fine-tuning models on Azure OpenAI / AI Foundry or AWS Bedrock / SageMaker
- Hands-on with RAG patterns, vector databases and evaluation metrics (BLEU, ROUGE-L, GPTScore)
- Cloud-native engineering skills: Docker, Kubernetes (AKS/EKS), infra-as-code and automated testing
- Nice-to-haves:
- Agent frameworks (AutoGen 0.2/0.4, CrewAI) and tool-using agents.
- Multimodal model workflows (image-text with GPT-4o, Gpt4o real time API).
- Experience with embedding models
- Workspace automation using agentic frameworks
- Advanced RAG variants– familiarity with LongRAG, Self-RAG, GraphRAG and the trade-offs between leading vector stores (Pinecone, Qdrant, FAISS, Azure AI Search)
- Multimodal & streaming LLMs– delivering real-time GPT-4o or Gemini 2 Ultra use-cases (image to text or speech) and cross-modal embeddings.
Culture and Benefits
Join a team where you'll be supported to grow your career, prioritise your wellbeing, and make a genuine impact. From industry-leading learning and development opportunities to parental leave, wellbeing support, and employee benefits, we're committed to helping our people thrive both professionally and personally. We're passionate about creating a workplace where people feel supported, empowered, and inspired to do their best work. Whether you're developing new skills, tackling complex challenges, or collaborating with some of the best minds in the industry, you'll be part of a team that values curiosity, innovation, inclusion, and making a genuine difference.
Why you will love working here
- Flexible and hybrid working options
- Paid parental leave
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (DataCare)
- Ongoing learning, certifications, and career development opportunities
- Access to industry-leading learning platforms and future skills training
- Recognition programmes that celebrate great work
- Great employee discounts and financial wellbeing benefits
- Meaningful work that makes a real impact
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