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AI Engineer; Advanced

Imizizi

South Africa · On-site Full-time Lead Yesterday

About the role

Position

1972 AI Engineer (Advanced)

Location

Menlyn

Essential Skills

  • Large Language Models (LLMs), RAG systems, multi-agent frameworks (Lang Chain, Lang Graph, GAIA)
  • Python (Advanced), ML engineering (Tensor Flow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn)
  • Vector Databases (FAISS, Pinecone, Elasticsearch/Open Search)
  • Prompt Engineering & Context Orchestration
  • MLOps (Sage Maker, ML Pipelines, Git Hub Actions, CI/CD)
  • AWS AI/ML stack:
    • Sage Maker, Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, Dynamo DB, S3
  • Data Engineering:
    • Spark, Kafka, SQL/No SQL, ETL/ELT
  • Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform
  • Cloud Observability:
    • Cloud Watch, X-Ray, logging/monitoring
  • API & Microservices development
  • Experience with Confluence, JIRA, and creating technical documentation
  • Understanding of data governance, AI risk, security, compliance, and IAM
  • Basic experience/understanding of AWS Components (in order of importance):
    • Glue, Kinesis (Streams & Firehose), Redshift, Athena, SNS, SQS, Secrets Manager, Param Store, Cloud Formation

Advantageous Skills

  • Experience building production-grade AI systems (RAG, agents, embeddings, search)
  • Strong mathematical foundations in probability, optimization & deep learning
  • AI cost optimization and performance tuning
  • Experience with graph-based reasoning, semantic caching, and model evaluation strategies
  • Strong communication skills for translating business needs into AI architectures
  • Ability to design AI safety controls and ensure model reliability
  • Experience preparing architectural specifications, solution designs and PoC-to-production handover
  • Strong organisational skills and ability to lead technical streams

Role & Responsibilities

AI Engineers are responsible for designing, building, and operationalising AI systems that scale across platforms. Responsibilities include:

  • Build enterprise-grade AI/ML systems (LLMs, RAG, multi-agent automation, vision/NLP models)
  • Develop retrieval pipelines, embedding strategies, semantic indexes & vector search
  • Build and maintain cloud-native AI workflows using AWS (Sage Maker, Lambda, EMR, Step Functions)
  • Integrate AI solutions into (CDEC, CDH, SAP, microservices)
  • Lead PoCs, architecture designs, and collaborate with global stakeholders
  • Implement MLOps pipelines & model monitoring (drift detection, auto-retraining)
  • Ensure security alignment, model governance, responsible AI practices
  • Document designs, decisions, evaluations, and solution patterns
  • Support Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog refinement and cross-team collaboration

Qualifications/Experience

  • Relevant IT / Engineering / Computer Science / Data Science Degree
  • Preferred Certifications:
    • AWS ML Specialty
    • AWS Solutions Architect (Associate/Professional)
    • Deep Learning. AI (GenAI, LLMs, Agents)
    • Hashicorp Terraform Associate

Submit your CV to: [email protected] and Subject line: 1972 AI Engineer (Advanced)

Requirements

  • Relevant IT / Engineering / Computer Science / Data Science Degree

Responsibilities

  • Build enterprise-grade AI/ML systems (LLMs, RAG, multi-agent automation, vision/NLP models)
  • Develop retrieval pipelines, embedding strategies, semantic indexes & vector search
  • Build and maintain cloud-native AI workflows using AWS (Sage Maker, Lambda, EMR, Step Functions)
  • Integrate AI solutions into (CDEC, CDH, SAP, microservices)
  • Lead PoCs, architecture designs, and collaborate with global stakeholders
  • Implement MLOps pipelines & model monitoring (drift detection, auto-retraining)
  • Ensure security alignment, model governance, responsible AI practices
  • Document designs, decisions, evaluations, and solution patterns
  • Support Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog refinement and cross-team collaboration

Skills

API & Microservices developmentAWS AI/ML stackAWS ComponentsCloud ObservabilityCI/CDData EngineeringDockerElasticsearch/Open SearchETL/ELTFAISSGit Hub ActionsGlueKinesis (Streams & Firehose)Kubernetes (EKS)LambdaLang ChainLang GraphLLMsML engineeringMLOpsNLP modelsPineconePrompt Engineering & Context OrchestrationPythonPyTorchRAG systemsRedshiftSage MakerScikit-learnSparkSQL/NoSQLStep FunctionsTensor FlowTerraformVector DatabasesVision models

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