AI – Factory - ML Engineer

Reference: PTA000062-Lo-1

AI – Factory - ML Engineer - Contractor

A locally hosted, enterprise-grade AI platform and ecosystem designed to accelerate how South African businesses adopt and scale artificial intelligence. It combines high-performance infrastructure, curated models, and services to help organisations build, integrate, and deploy AI solutions quickly and securely. The platform is powered by NVIDIA AI technology and hosted in local AI-ready data centres, ensuring compliance with South African regulatory and data sovereignty requirements, a key differentiator for enterprises navigating global AI adoption. Duties & Responsibilities

Job Title: AI – Factory - ML Engineer

Seniority Level: Mid Career (4 - 6 yrs exp)

Type: Contractor

Location: JHB - Central

Report to: Lorraine

Sectors: Information Technology

Functions: Engineer - Systems

Duties and Responsibilities: • Implement approved models into applications • Fine-tuning within defined governance boundaries • Build evaluation pipelines • Implement observability and monitoring • Manage model versioning in production • Optimize performance and latency

Qualification Types: Degree

Skills Required:

Experience deploying ML systems to production, Strong Python and ML frameworks, Model evaluation and monitoring expertise, Understanding of MLOps practices, Familiarity with AI governance constraints, 3–5 years ML engineering; production deployment required.