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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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