Senior AI Engineer

At Seequent, we help organisations to understand the underground, giving the confidence to make better decisions faster.
We build world-leading technology that is at the forefront of Earth sciences, transforming the way our customers work. Every day we help them develop critical mineral resources more sustainably, design and build better infrastructure, source renewable energy, and reduce their impact on the environment.
We operate in 145+ countries while proudly maintaining headquarters in New Zealand.
The Senior AI Developer is responsible for building and delivering advanced Generative AI (Gen AI) capabilities within Seequent’s Evo geoscience data platform. This role will shape how Gen AI is integrated into products, transforming prototypes into scalable, secure, production-ready features. The developer will work cross-functionally with global teams to build AI tools that help users understand their data, automate workflows, and interact with AI agents. This position also involves designing evaluation systems, enhancing ML tools, and contributing to the long-term AI strategy while ensuring strict data privacy and security.
Collaborate with global engineering, product, and data science teams.
Lead development of Gen AI features across the Evo platform.
Build evaluation systems for continuous model and product improvement.
Promote best practices for rapid, sustainable Gen AI development.
Ensure customer data is protected and used with explicit consent.
Maintain, extend, and generalize existing ML and analytics tools.
Advocate for tools that enhance geoscience data insights and automation.
Continuously expand knowledge in geoscience, ML, analytics, and software delivery.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field.
7+ years in software engineering or data science roles.
1+ year building and operating Gen AI/LLM products in production.
Commercial experience with Python and a major cloud provider (Google Cloud preferred).
Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining Gen AI applications.
Strong skills in software development, ML, and data analytics.
RAG, semantic search, vector databases
Google Vertex AI and Gen AI SDK
AI evaluation frameworks
Office-based working environment, work from our Toronto or Calgary Office a minimum of two days per week.

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Benefits – Competitive salary, flexible working, a paid day each year to volunteer, an employee share purchase plan in most locations, rewards & recognition program, continuous learning and career growth opportunities, internal engagement events, culture & wellbeing program, personal support resources.