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AI Engineer

Ref: JO-2603-359498

  • Environment: Hybrid
  • Contract Type: Permanent
  • Starts: 2026-06-30
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AI Engineer
📍 Cape Town
đź’° Competitive Salary + Bonus + Equity

You’ll join an engineering-led team that designs, builds, and deploys solutions at scale for enterprise clients across industries. If you’re looking to work where ideas turn into production systems, this is it.

đź§  The Role

As an AI Engineer, you’ll lead technical workstreams and deliver hands-on solutions that solve complex client challenges.

You’ll be working at the intersection of engineering, consulting, and innovation, with the opportunity to:

  • Design and build modern data & AI architectures
  • Develop and deploy ML and LLM-powered solutions
  • Create scalable, cloud-native platforms
  • Collaborate directly with senior client stakeholders

👤 Skills and Experience:

You likely have 3-7 years’ experience in consulting or technical delivery, with a strong foundation in one or more of:

  • Cloud data platforms
  • Machine learning
  • Analytics engineering
  • Software or platform engineering

Exposure to GenAI, LLMs, vector databases, LangChain, or proposal writing.

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AI Engineer

  • South Africa, Cape Town
  • Software Development & Engineering, Technology
  • Hybrid
  • Permanent

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  • South Africa, Cape Town
  • Software Development & Engineering, Technology
  • Hybrid
  • Permanent

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