KPMG New Zealand is a professional services firm supporting private individuals, small and medium-sized businesses, multinational companies, and government agencies. Its work spans audit, tax, advisory, consulting, finance, and compliance, with more than 1,000 professionals working across seven cities. The firm helps clients pursue growth, strengthen financial performance, and address complex business needs while providing an environment focused on professional development.
Senior AI Engineer, Hybrid - KPMG New Zealand
Build and operate secure, scalable AI systems for KPMG New Zealand’s professional services environment. Work across Azure engineering, agentic workflows, automation, monitoring, and AI evaluation.
Description
- Create and implement high-impact AI solutions
- Use tools such as Copilot to improve delivery efficiency
- Review and strengthen AI-generated infrastructure, pipelines, and code
- Direct end-to-end AI implementations within established technical standards
- Find business processes where AI can deliver meaningful improvements
- Build automated, efficient workflows with measurable results
- Architect AI solutions with robust data protection and access controls
- Take ownership of AI services running in production
- Develop monitoring, guardrails, and evaluation capabilities for reliable, measurable AI
Requirements
- Advanced Python and TypeScript/JavaScript development skills
- Demonstrated ability to build and operate production systems from end to end
- Practical knowledge of CI/CD, cloud platforms, and core security practices
- Solid cloud and AI engineering expertise, particularly with Azure
- Experience deploying and operating managed model services, including Azure AI Foundry or Azure OpenAI
- Track record of writing tested, maintainable code
- Practical experience testing and evaluating AI systems, including agent behavior, tool use, and multi-step trajectories
- Working knowledge of agentic workflows and tool-using agent orchestration
- Familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation and related retrieval methods
- Broad, pragmatic engineering ability across the technology stack
Benefits
- Eligibility for the firm’s annual incentive scheme
- Potential local and international secondment opportunities
- Hybrid work spanning office, client, and home locations
- Option to work overseas and spend extended periods outside New Zealand
- Flexible leave arrangements, including the option to purchase extra annual leave
- 18 weeks of fully paid parental leave for every new parent
- Paid membership in a professional association of your choice
- Access to Microsoft and LinkedIn Learning digital accreditations
- Tailored learning pathways available to all employees
- Discounts and special offers on insurance, banking, lifestyle products, and services
- Inclusion, Diversity and Equity affinity networks
- Participation in Green Team initiatives
- Social club activities and events
- Paid leave for volunteering and citizenship activities
- Complimentary flu vaccinations
- Subsidised sporting events
- Free confidential counselling
- An additional five days of Wellbeing leave
- Wellbeing portal with guidance and resources