Lead AI & Automation Engineer - Build Real-World AI

First Focus IT
Full-time auckland, auckland Software Architecture & Engineering
Posted:
June 14, 2026
Location:
auckland, auckland, New-Zealand

Job Description

There are Auckland roles, and then there are Auckland roles. This one will not ask you to sit in traffic on the Southern Motorway just to explain “what AI is” to a committee of 14 people, or pretend that innovation means putting ChatGPT in a PowerPoint and calling it strategy. You’re welcome.

First Focus is one of Australasia’s leading Managed Service Providers, with almost 400 people across Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines. We help businesses get better outcomes from technology, which sounds very grown-up, because it is. Mostly.

Our AI, Automation & Adoption team is a small internal innovation team with a big remit: build practical AI, automation, tooling, agents, integrations, and internal platforms that actually get used. Not innovation theatre. Not a sandbox that gathers dust. Real things, in production, helping real people do real work with slightly fewer spreadsheets. Humanity may survive after all.

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Job Overview

Job Type: Full-time
Location: auckland, New-Zealand
Posted: June 14, 2026
Deadline: July 24, 2026