Senior AI Developer

About Us:

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 Role

The Senior AI Developer is responsible for building an applied Generative AI (Gen AI) platform to deliver new capabilities within Seequent's Evo geoscience data platform. This role will shape how Gen AI and agentic AI technologies are integrated into Seequent's products and operated at scale, while ensuring strict data privacy, security, and reliability.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Design and develop Gen AI platform capabilities, with a strong focus on agentic AI applications and supporting infrastructure.
• Build and evolve shared tools, frameworks, and services that enable AI agents to operate reliably within the Evo platform.
• Collaborate with global engineering, operations, product, and data science teams to deliver shared AI capabilities.
• Convert prototypes into secure, scalable, production-ready product capabilities.
• Deploy, monitor, evaluate, and continuously improve Gen AI applications and platform components in production.
• Design and implement evaluation frameworks to improve the quality, reliability, and performance of Gen AI systems.
• Establish reusable tooling, patterns, and best practices for rapid, sustainable Gen AI development.
• Protect customer data and ensure it is used with explicit consent.
• Act as a subject-matter expert in AI system design and technical decision-making, contributing to the team's technical direction as it grows.

To be successful in this role, you should have:

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering or related technical roles.
• 3+ years of experience building, deploying, and operating Gen AI/LLM-based products or platform capabilities in production.
• Strong commercial experience with Python and a major cloud provider, with Google Cloud preferred.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including system design, API development, testing, observability, and production operations.
• Experience designing agentic AI systems, tool-using agents, or multi-step AI applications, including production orchestration, execution, and reliability.
• Experience with Gen AI evaluation frameworks or tooling such as LangSmith, MLflow, Langfuse, or similar solutions.
• Familiarity with MCP, A2A, LangGraph, Deep Agents, RAG, semantic search, vector databases, or similar agentic and AI platform technologies.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work across globally distributed, cross-functional teams and turn prototypes into reliable, maintainable products.

Additional Information
This is a hybrid position based in Vancouver, with a minimum of two days per week working from the Vancouver office.

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Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
At Seequent, we champion the uniqueness of each individual. Our commitment to inclusiveness, equity, and accessibility is fundamental to who we are. If you require accommodation during our recruitment process, please let our Talent Acquisition team know. We are here to ensure a fair opportunity for all.
Research underscores that some individuals, especially women and underrepresented groups, may hesitate to apply for roles if they don't meet every requirement. Please don't count yourself out if you don’t tick every box. We are committed to hiring a diverse team and encourage individuals of all background and abilities to apply. Thank you for considering us as your potential employer; we're excited to see what you can bring to our team!

Benefits of being a Seequenteer and why you’ll love being on our team.
We aspire to be pioneers of positive change in the way organisations work with the underground. We work collaboratively, stay curious, make change happen and have a global impact. We bring our authentic selves to work and are enthusiastic about what we do. Plus, you can expect great benefits; these benefits are unique to each location Seequent resides in. Please ask your Talent Acquisition Specialist.
If this posting gets you excited about joining Seequent please apply now!
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