Junior AI Integration Engineer

Zuru is hiring a Junior AI Integration Engineer in Auckland, New Zealand. Level rates it ; you can apply on Zuru.

Level's read on this job

On Level's scale, this role is Uses AI ●●○○: an ordinary role that requires AI tools.
Tools and skills the posting cites include Claude, Copilot and Databricks.
Level classifies it as a junior role.
Level lists 93 other open roles at Zuru.

AI in this role

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🚀 Ready to Lead AI Sprints, Build Smart Tools, and Put Automation Into Action from Day One? 🚀

About ZURU

ZURU is on a mission to disrupt industries, challenge the status quo, and catalyze change through radical innovation and advances in automation. This is in play in different pillars of the company: ZURU Toys are re-imagining what it means to play; ZURU Tech is shaping a better future by leading the next building revolution; and ZURU Edge is pioneering new-generation FMCG brands to better serve modern consumers. Founded in 2003 by EY Entrepreneur of the Year and World Entrepreneur Hall of Fame brothers Nick and Mat Mowbray, ZURU has quickly grown to a team of over 5,000 direct and indirect members across more than 30 international locations. One of the largest toy companies in the world, our globally recognized and award-winning brands include Bunch O Balloons, Mini Brands, XSHOT, Rainbocorns, and Smashers. Our global FMCG brands include MONDAY Haircare, Rascals, BONKERS, and Gumi Yum Surprise.

About The Role

As a Junior AI Integration Engineer, you'll work hands-on with business teams across ZURU to diagnose friction, build AI-powered tools, and ship them into production. From knowledge bots and workflow automations to campaign reporting agents and data analysis agents, your work will directly impact how thousands of people across ZURU get their jobs done every day.This role sits at the centre of ZURU's AI transformation. You'll run focused sprints with business units, translate real workflows into working AI tools, and hand off validated prototypes to the engineering team for production. This is a hands-on, build-and-ship role with real ownership from week one.You'll work across business units spanning toys, consumer goods, tech and construction — in NZ, China, United States giving you visibility into shared problems and reusable patterns no single-team role would offer.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Lead one-week focused sprints with business teams: shadow workflows, identify high-value automations, build a working PoC, and hand it off
Build AI-powered tools including knowledge bots, RAG systems, data analysis agents, campaign reporting tools, and custom web apps
Connect AI tools to business data sources via semantic models that make it easier for AI agents to query our data, Databricks, and MCP connections
Deploy and maintain infrastructure using Terraform, AWS, and modern CI/CD practices
Design and build RAG systems across multiple business units, covering document ingestion, chunking, retrieval quality, and knowledge architecture
Facilitate hands-on workshops to upskill teams from beginner to self-serving with AI
Mentor team-level AI Champions and contribute to the shared skill library of Claude skills, templates, and how-to guides

Skills & Experience:

Comfortable reading and writing code in Python and JavaScript or TypeScript
Comfortable using AI coding tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or Claude Code
Experience building AI workflows
Strong understanding of modern LLM capabilities including agents, tool use, RAG, context engineering, and structured output
Ability to deconstruct complex business workflows and re-engineer them for automation
Strong communication skills, able to sit with business units across commercial, marketing, design, manufacturing, and finance, translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders, run workshops, and present to senior leadership
Builder's mentality, focused on creating scalable, repeatable solutions rather than ad-hoc fixes
Ability to take a problem from discovery through to working PoC

Bonus:

Exposure to Terraform, AWS, or similar cloud environments
Experience building data pipelines or working with semantic layers (dbt or similar)
Exposure to vector databases, embeddings, or retrieval systems
Hackathon, side project, or open-source contributions you can show us
End-to-end project experience (academic, personal, or professional)

ABOUT ZURU

ZURU is on a quest to reimagine tomorrow. Founded in 2003, ZURU Group has rapidly grown and now spans three core divisions—ZURU Toys, ZURU Edge (consumer goods) and ZURU Tech (construction).

Known for its cutting-edge software and world-leading automation and manufacturing systems, ZURU has over 5,000 team members in over 30 global locations, making it perfectly placed to continue building its reputation as one of the fastest-growing and most disruptive companies in the world.

At ZURU, we have cultivated a high-performing culture that encourages excellence. Our team works towards ambitious goals, learning, performing, and improving together, all while having fun. We empower talented individuals to do their best work every day.

At ZURU, you get out what you put in. You are responsible for driving your own career and we provide the platform to achieve it. As ZURU is on such a fast growth trajectory, there are opportunities here that you won’t find anywhere else.

Get to know us a little better by checking out @lifeatzuru on Instagram or www.zuru.com.

WHAT WE OFFER

🌱 Culture for Growth

🧘 Health Benefits

🌎 Global Opportunities

💡 Surrounded by an A Player Team

💰 Competitive Remuneration

🍓 Lots of fresh fruit, coffee, pals fridge and more

ZURU – Reimagining tomorrow 🚀

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ZURU may use AI tools to help screen, assess or select applicants.

How we rate this

Junior AI Integration Engineer at Zuru rates 44 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Junior AI Integration Engineer is an open job at Zuru.
Level rates this role AI Level 2 of 4: Uses AI.
The role is based in Auckland | New Zealand.
The job was posted on May 4, 2026.
Seniority: junior.
Applications are handled by Zuru. Apply on Zuru

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Built from this posting and from similar jobs on Level.

Skills and AI tools this role asks for

RAGAI agentsClaudeCopilotDatabricksCursorClaude Code

Questions you could be asked

How would you design a retrieval step so the model answers from real data instead of guessing?
How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
What are the limits of Claude that you've run into, and how did you work around them?
What's a project where you used Copilot hands-on?
Walk me through how you've used Databricks in your day-to-day work.

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List these exact terms on your resume: RAG, AI agents, Claude, Copilot, and Databricks. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
Put the AI tool in a bullet point about what you did, not just in a skills list. This role treats it as a required part of the job.

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