Junior Machine Learning Engineer (NLP)

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Fenmore Technologies employs 2,000 people across engineering hubs in Auckland and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers.

About the role:

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Junior Machine Learning Engineer (NLP). We're looking for an engineer to build retrieval-augmented generation features on hosted and open-weight language models, with proper evaluation. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in New Zealand. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

What you'll do:

• Productionize data science prototypes without rewriting everything
• Deploy models behind low-latency APIs with FastAPI, Triton, TorchServe or vLLM
• Write clean, tested Python and review teammates' code
• Set up evaluation harnesses and regression tests for model quality
• Monitor models for drift, data quality issues and latency regressions

Qualifications:

• 1+ years of software engineering experience, with at least two spent on ML systems in production
• BS or MS in computer science, engineering or a related field
• Comfortable with SQL and large-scale data processing in Spark or Ray
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes and a cloud ML platform (SageMaker, Vertex AI, Azure ML)
• Knowledge of LLM APIs, prompt design and evaluation methods

Preferred:

• Recommendation or ranking systems at scale
• CUDA or Triton kernel experience
• Guardrails, red teaming or safety evaluation for LLM features
• Published papers or open source ML contributions

Salary range: $118,000 - $137,000 pa

Why work with us:

• Health insurance
• KiwiSaver contributions
• Five weeks annual leave after the first year
• Flexible hours
• Life insurance

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Fenmore Technologies Limited.