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AI Engineer – AI GTM Engine Room - Consultant and Senior Consultant

Nāu te rourou, nāku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi

With your contribution and my contribution, together we will thrive.

Hei Oranga Iwi | The opportunity

Join EY’s AI GTM Engine Room, a high-velocity build capability at the centre of our Oceania AI growth strategy.

As an AI Engineer, you will contribute to the experimentation, prototyping and deployment of advanced AI and Generative AI solutions that support client pursuits, industry demonstrations and scalable sector offerings. Working with leading foundation models and orchestration frameworks, you will help translate emerging capabilities into practical, commercially viable solutions.

Within the AI Labs Engine Room, you will have access to enterprise-grade environments, advanced tooling and significant model and compute capacity, enabling you to experiment and iterate at scale within secure enterprise guardrails.

You will work alongside senior engineers and architects to move from concept to working solution at pace, contribute to reusable AI accelerators and support the maturation of successful prototypes into scalable enterprise deployments.

This role can be performed from any of our EY offices across Aotearoa. Flexible work arrangements may be considered.

Ko Tō Rourou | Your key responsibilities

• Contribute to the prototyping and deployment of AI and Generative AI solutions to support client pursuits, sector use cases and demonstrations.
• Develop and test LLM-powered applications and agentic workflows under guidance, including tool or function calling patterns.
• Support engineering of data-driven architectures across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Assist in developing scalable AI systems with embedded Responsible AI and security controls.
• Apply MLOps and LLMOps practices including experimentation tracking, model testing and deployment support.
• Build and maintain data pipelines integrating structured and unstructured data sources.
• Work with vector databases alongside relational and NoSQL systems.
• Support deployment of AI workloads using platforms such as AWS and Azure.
• Collaborate with architects, sector teams and engineers to transition proof-of-concepts toward production-ready solutions.

Ngā Pūkenga | Skills and attributes for success

• Foundational knowledge of AI, machine learning and Generative AI, with hands-on exposure to LLMs such as OpenAI, Anthropic or Llama.
• Experience with prompt engineering and orchestration frameworks such as LangChain or similar tooling.
• Understanding of agentic systems and workflow automation concepts.
• Exposure to MLOps or LLMOps practices.
• Strong Python programming capability and API development fundamentals.
• Familiarity with modern data stores and vector databases.
• Cloud platform exposure across AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Awareness of Responsible AI principles and security considerations.
• Strong curiosity, learning agility and problem-solving mindset.

Ideally, you’ll also have the skills and attributes below but don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes. We’re interested in your aptitude, attitude and willingness to learn.

• Experience contributing to AI proofs-of-concept or internal accelerators.
• Exposure to evaluation frameworks or structured experimentation environments.
• A degree in computer science, engineering, data science or a related discipline.

Ko Taku Rourou | What we offer you

At EY, we’ll fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more.

• Career development: At EY, your career is yours to shape! We’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences www.ey.com/nz/careerdevelopment
• Flexible work arrangements: Our flexible work policies empower you to balance your professional and personal life, fostering a culture of trust and autonomy.
• A comprehensive benefits package: From a yearly wellness incentive, to access to additional 8 weeks of flex leave per year, and family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of gender-neutral paid parental leave, we cater to your diverse needs to help you thrive both personally and professionally www.ey.com/nz/benefits
• Salary: We offer a competitive salary which is open to negotiation pending on skills and experience.

Diversity, equity, and inclusiveness (DE&I) are core to who we are, how we work and how we live our values. We encourage applications from people of all ages, nationalities, abilities, cultures, sexual orientations, and gender identities and are committed to providing an equitable and barrier free recruitment experience for all. We encourage you to share any support and adjustments you need to be your best and participate equitably in our recruitment process. We understand sharing your needs with us can be daunting, so if you have questions before or during your application, we welcome you to get in touch at contactrecruitment@au.ey.com or +61 3 8650 7788 (option 2). Anything you tell us will be kept completely confidential.

He rourou kai kei ō ringa hei tākoha? Tēnā haria mai!

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EY | Building a better working world

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