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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.\nAbout The Role\nAs 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.\nRoles & Responsibilities:\nLead one-week focused sprints with business teams: shadow workflows, identify high-value automations, build a working PoC, and hand it off\n\nBuild AI-powered tools including knowledge bots, RAG systems, data analysis agents, campaign reporting tools, and custom web apps\n\nConnect AI tools to business data sources via semantic models that make it easier for AI agents to query our data, Databricks, and MCP connections\n\nDeploy and maintain infrastructure using Terraform, AWS, and modern CI/CD practices\n\nDesign and build RAG systems across multiple business units, covering document ingestion, chunking, retrieval quality, and knowledge architecture\n\nFacilitate hands-on workshops to upskill teams from beginner to self-serving with AI\n\nMentor team-level AI Champions and contribute to the shared skill library of Claude skills, templates, and how-to guides\n\nSkills & Experience:\nComfortable reading and writing code in Python and JavaScript or TypeScript\n\nComfortable using AI coding tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or Claude Code\n\nExperience building AI workflows\n\nStrong understanding of modern LLM capabilities including agents, tool use, RAG, context engineering, and structured output\n\nAbility to deconstruct complex business workflows and re-engineer them for automation\n\nStrong 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\n\nBuilder's mentality, focused on creating scalable, repeatable solutions rather than ad-hoc fixes\n\nAbility to take a problem from discovery through to working PoC\n\nBonus:\nExposure to Terraform, AWS, or similar cloud environments\n\nExperience building data pipelines or working with semantic layers (dbt or similar)\n\nExposure to vector databases, embeddings, or retrieval systems\n\nHackathon, side project, or open-source contributions you can show us\n\nEnd-to-end project experience (academic, personal, or professional)\n\nABOUT ZURU\nZURU 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).\nKnown 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.\nAt 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.\nAt ZURU, you get out what you put in. You are responsible for driving your own career and we provide the platform to achieve it. 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