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Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Auckland💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-02 → 2026-09-26

Core

Develop advanced machine learning models and predictive systems for pasture growth, animal state, health, and activity to optimize farming operations.

Role type

Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Predictive Systems)

Builds

Intelligent agricultural modelling systems for remote sensing, animal identification, and grazing recommendations.

Domain

Agriculture / Precision Farming

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning theory, Python, end-to-end ML pipeline development, dataset construction, model training and optimization, causal reasoning, working with noisy high-dimensional datasets, AI companion tools

Preferred skills

Advanced ML architectures (Transformers, SSM), agent-based systems, recommendation systems, pasture science knowledge

Technologies

Python, Deep Neural Networks, AI companion tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude-code)

Responsibilities

Drive development of predictive systems for real-world farming challenges, conduct literature reviews on ML and pasture science, design and optimize custom ML models, support production deployment and monitoring, proactively innovate on new ideas

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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