AI Engineer: Production ML & Personalisation

Liquid Thought Group; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Liquid Thought Group, a Cape Town-based digital studio, seeks an experienced AI Engineer to design, build and deploy production AI solutions for ecommerce and digital platforms. You will own AI features from concept to deployment, including personalization, recommendations, and LLM-powered assistants.

You’ll collaborate with strategists, product owners, designers and engineers to deliver value, optimise performance, and stay current with AI/ML developments.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science or related field (Honours/Master's advantageous).
• 3–5 years software engineering, with at least 2 years in AI/ML development.
• Strong Python proficiency and experience with ML frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and deploy AI/ML solutions and pipelines on cloud infrastructure.
• Develop NLP features such as content classification and semantic search.
• Integrate LLMs and generative AI into client products and workflows.
• Collaborate across cross-functional teams to deliver AI features end-to-end.
• Write clean Python code and design APIs/microservices for model serving.

Skills

Python

ML frameworks

Cloud platforms

Docker

API development

MLOps

NLP

Large language models

Education

Bachelor's or higher in CS/ML/Data Science

Honours/Masters advantageous

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Kubernetes

Job description

Liquid Thought Group, a Cape Town-based digital studio, seeks an experienced AI Engineer to design, build and deploy production AI solutions for ecommerce and digital platforms. You will own AI features from concept to deployment, including personalization, recommendations, and LLM-powered assistants.

You’ll collaborate with strategists, product owners, designers and engineers to deliver value, optimise performance, and stay current with AI/ML developments.