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Remote Technology (AI) Jobs in New Zealand 2026

295 remote jobs open to candidates in New Zealand in Technology (AI). Updated daily.

AfterQuery
AI Research Scientific Computing +12 Simulation Analysis Bioinformatics Biology Physics Astrophysics Chemistry Spectroscopy Modeling Education Python Flexible
  • Remote (Global)
  • $100/hr ($200 per approved task, about 2 hours each)
  • Oct 1, 2026

Author research-grade AI evaluation tasks from your own computational work. Open to PhD students, postdocs, research scientists, and research-active Master's students.

Pasiflora AI
Accuracy Visualization DevOps +12 Infrastructure Engineering HTML CSS React Canvas LMS Typography Positioning Problem Solving JavaScript TypeScript Python
  • Remote (Global)
  • Sep 29, 2026

Global | Contract | Mid-Level to Senior | 3+ years experience We are seeking experienced Front-End, UI, and Design Engineers for a project focused on recreating visual references through code with extremely high visual accuracy.

Pasiflora AI
English AI Training +12 Writing Purchasing Architecture Databases Indexing APIs Monitoring Testing Documentation Marketing Engineering Calibration
  • Remote (Global)
  • Sep 29, 2026

Existing documents only | Remote | English only We are seeking to purchase existing, original technical decision documents written by experienced software engineers and technical professionals, for an AI training and evaluation project. This is not a writing assignment.

Turing
Research AI Reinforcement Learning +12 Training Reasoning STEM Finance Sales Collaboration Engineering Algorithms Operations Microsoft Teams Strategic Thinking Interpretation
  • Remote (Global)
  • Sep 29, 2026

Based in San Francisco, California, Turing is the world’s leading research accelerator for frontier AI labs and a trusted partner for global enterprises deploying advanced AI systems.

Turing
Training Infrastructure AI +12 Engineering Testing Quality Assurance ROOT Programming Scalability Refactoring Operations Rubrics Code Quality Microsoft Teams Python
  • Remote (Global)
  • Sep 29, 2026

Turing is one of the world's leading AGI infrastructure companies, working with frontier AI labs to accelerate model development through high-quality training data, evaluations, and engineering talent.

Mercor
Engineering AI Research +12 Organization Analysis Manufacturing Verification Cross-Functional Collaboration Troubleshooting Procedures ROOT Documentation Testing Management Planning
  • Remote (Global)
  • $100 – $120/hr
  • Sep 26, 2026

Mercor is seeking experienced Systems & Integration Engineers to support an advanced engineering and AI research initiative with a leading technology organization.

AfterQuery
Debugging Engineering Programming +9 Algorithms Flexible Professional Experience Software Development Code Review Software Engineering Data Structures System Design Computer Science
  • Remote (Global)
  • $75/hr
  • Sep 24, 2026

This is a remote, project-based role for software engineers with 1–3 years of professional experience. You will complete tasks spanning software development, debugging, code review, and technical implementation across a variety of stacks and applications.

Ask Ethos
AI Engineering Flexible +12 Algorithms Architecture Communication Programming MATCH Research Training Software Development Software Engineering Engineering Workflows Remote Work System Design
  • Remote (Global)
  • $100/hr
  • Sep 23, 2026

We're working with a leading foundational AI lab to find experienced software engineers who can help train their latest language model on software development tasks.

Ask Ethos
AI Machine Learning Documentation +12 Flexible Communication MATCH Research Training Python SQL Modeling Experimentation Data Science Written communication Attention to Detail
  • Remote (Global)
  • $100/hr
  • Sep 23, 2026

We're working with a leading foundational AI lab to find experienced data scientists and ML engineers who can help train their latest language model on data science documentation tasks.

DataAnnotation.tech
AI Expert - Cybersecurity Contractor ↘ +6 regions
SQL Architecture Identity and Access Management +12 Reasoning Modeling Research English Training Make AI Flexible Application Security Code Review Threat Modeling Cloud Security
  • Australia, Canada, Ireland +3New ZealandUnited KingdomUnited States
  • Up to $125+/hr
  • Sep 22, 2026

Models are great at spotting the textbook SQL injection and blind to the flaw that only shows up in your architecture: the trust boundary drawn in the wrong place, the deserialization no scanner flags, the IAM policy that quietly grants the world.

DataAnnotation.tech
AI Expert - Cybersecurity Contractor ↘ +6 regions
ROOT Triage Analysis +9 Reasoning DFIR Operations English Training Make AI Flexible Incident Response
  • Australia, Canada, Ireland +3New ZealandUnited KingdomUnited States
  • Up to $125+/hr
  • Sep 22, 2026

During an incident, models love a tidy story: one root cause, a clean timeline, a confident containment plan. Real intrusions are messier, and a model that misreads a log or clears an attacker too early does real damage. Someone has to catch that, and that someone is you.

DataAnnotation.tech
AI Expert - Cybersecurity Contractor ↘ +6 regions
Reasoning Testing Red Teaming +6 English Training Make AI Flexible Penetration Testing
  • Australia, Canada, Ireland +3New ZealandUnited KingdomUnited States
  • Up to $125+/hr
  • Sep 22, 2026

Models can describe an exploit chain in confident detail and miss that step three never actually works, the payload gets filtered, or the whole path assumes a misconfiguration no real target would have.

DataAnnotation.tech
AI Expert - Cybersecurity Contractor ↘ +6 regions
Cybersecurity Authentication Management +11 Reasoning Engineering Operations English Training Make AI Flexible Input Handling Professional Experience Security Engineering
  • Australia, Canada, Ireland +3New ZealandUnited KingdomUnited States
  • Up to $125+/hr
  • Sep 22, 2026

Models will hand you code that looks secure and quietly ships a hardcoded secret, a broken auth check, or an injection the linter never flags. Someone has to tell security theater from an actual defense, and that someone is you.

Turing
Python Docker Infrastructure +12 AI Training Engineering Quality Assurance Onboarding Calibration SaaS Slack Linear JIRA Notion Rubrics
  • Remote (Global)
  • Sep 22, 2026

Urgent hire: ASAP start, 4 week contract. Applications reviewed on a rolling basis, apply early. Engagement details Engagement type: Contractor, pay per task Payment: $300 per approved task Commitment: Minimum of 1 completed and approved task per day No cap on tasks: Complete as…

DataAnnotation.tech
AI Expert - Machine Learning & AI Research Contractor ↘ +6 regions
Reasoning Training Dynamics +12 Machine Learning Debugging AI MLOps Python PyTorch JAX English Make Flexible Data Pipelines ML Systems
  • Australia, Canada, Ireland +3New ZealandUnited KingdomUnited States
  • Up to $150+/hr
  • Sep 22, 2026

Models are surprisingly bad at reasoning about themselves: training dynamics, evaluation design, data pipelines, and deployment trade-offs. Plausible-sounding ML advice is often subtly wrong.

DataAnnotation.tech
AI Expert - Software Engineering Contractor ↘ +6 regions
APIs Reasoning Modeling +12 Contracts Consistency Open Source Databases Concurrency Python Go Java Rust English Training Make
  • Australia, Canada, Ireland +3New ZealandUnited KingdomUnited States
  • Up to $150+/hr
  • Sep 22, 2026

Models write backend code that passes the happy-path test and falls over on everything else: the race condition under load, the N+1 that melts the database, the API contract that breaks every client the day you change it.

DataAnnotation.tech
AI Expert - Cloud & DevOps Contractor ↘ +6 regions
DevOps Infrastructure Reasoning +11 Infrastructure as Code Operations Automation Terraform Kubernetes Docker English Training Make AI Flexible
  • Australia, Canada, Ireland +3New ZealandUnited KingdomUnited States
  • Up to $150+/hr
  • Sep 22, 2026

A model will hand you a pipeline and an infrastructure change that apply cleanly and quietly leave a security group open to the world, a state file that will corrupt on the next run, and a rollback path that does not exist. In production those mistakes page someone at 3am.

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