# Machine Learning Engineer

The Company Herd-i is a Christchurch-based Agritech company building AI products for dairy farmers. Its camera-based locomotion scoring system uses computer vision to assess cow health from video, giving farmers an early read on lameness and herd performance, and it’s in use on commercial dairy farms. It’s a growing team of around 20 in Christchurch, with software engineers, testers, DevOps and commercial staff working alongside a dedicated Machine Learning team. The Role We are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to join Herd-i’s machine learning team of four, reporting to the Lead Machine Learning Engineer. You will improve the accuracy of the computer vision models behind the product, with a focus on early illness detection, and strengthen the MLOps pipeline that trains, deploys and monitors them. This is a hands-on role for someone who takes ownership. You’ll be trusted with real parts of the pipeline and workload and expected to run with them. What You’ll Be Doing Developing, optimising and maintaining production models, including cow detection, keypoint detection and regression models for scoring Designing and implementing MLOps pipelines for automated training, deployment an

- **Id**: 3948860
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/walker-smith-machine-learning-engineer-2>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Christchurch, New Zealand
- **Countries**: NZ
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T00:33:20Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T00:33:20Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2955
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Recruiting & Staffing

## Company

- **Id**: 4423671
- **Name**: Walker Smith
- **Domain**: walkersmith.co.nz
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/walkersmith>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Manatal

## Technologies

- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **PyTorch** — Optional: yes
- **RT-DETR** — Optional: yes
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: yes
- **XGBoost** — Optional: yes
- **YOLO** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Team size min**: 20
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **New Zealand** — Iso: NZ; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T00:33:20Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 22
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T01:49:40Z

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