Cloud AI Engineer – Generative AI, RAG & MLOps

IQbusiness South Africa; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

IQbusiness South Africa seeks a hands-on AI Engineer to design, build and operationalise cloud-based AI solutions across Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. The role sits within the Data & Analytics team and reports into the AI Capability Lead, contributing to enterprise AI delivery primarily in Financial Services with cross-sector work.

The successful candidate combines strong AI engineering with solid data engineering and MLOps foundations, delivering production-grade Generative AI, RAG agents and

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related quantitative field.
• 3+ years' experience delivering AI / ML / data solutions, ideally in a consulting or enterprise delivery environment.
• 1–2+ years' hands-on Generative AI engineering experience (LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector DBs, prompt engineering).
• 3+ years' broader ML / AI delivery experience (supervised ML, feature engineering, evaluation, NLP).
• Strong data engineering: pipelines, Python / PySpark, data modelling, lakehouse patterns.
• Cloud experience on at least one of Azure, AWS or GCP, with working knowledge of a second; containerisation and CI/CD.
• Experience integrating AI into enterprise systems via APIs, web apps and messaging.
• Business acumen: ability to link AI solutions to business value, ROI and risk.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, collaboration and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and deploy Generative AI and LLM-based applications, including end-to-end RAG agents and agentic / multi-agent solutions.
• Implement RAG pipelines: chunking strategies, embeddings, dynamic indexing, vector databases, vector indexing, grounding and evaluation.
• Build document intelligence solutions: OCR, classification, custom/neural extraction, table extraction and post-processing for unstructured data.
• Implement tool/function calling, prompt engineering, fine-tuning and guardrails for production AI agents.
• Integrate AI models into enterprise systems via APIs, Service Bus, web apps and downstream platforms.
• Experience/knowledge of fine-tuning generative AI models, MCP, AI tool calling, A2A and graph databases.

Skills

Generative AI engineering

Data engineering

Cloud platforms

Python / PySpark

API integration

Stakeholder management

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related

Job description

IQbusiness South Africa seeks a hands-on AI Engineer to design, build and operationalise cloud-based AI solutions across Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. The role sits within the Data & Analytics team and reports into the AI Capability Lead, contributing to enterprise AI delivery primarily in Financial Services with cross-sector work.

The successful candidate combines strong AI engineering with solid data engineering and MLOps foundations, delivering production-grade Generative AI, RAG agents and