Generative AI Engineer (Remote, Pietermaritzburg)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Pietermaritzburg; Remote; ZAR 800,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency LLC is seeking a Generative AI Engineer to own and ship our internal automation roadmap, including production LLM and agent systems used by the team. This builder role focuses on practical deployment, not research, and requires you to have shipped an LLM system to production.

You will work on integrations with WordPress, Figma, Google Workspace, Slack and our internal MCP servers, delivering tools that measurably reduce effort in delivery, sales operations and project

Qualifications

• 2+ years building production software in Python or TypeScript/Node.js.
• At least one LLM or agent system you built in production with real users.
• Hands-on tool use, evals and failure handling: validating model output.
• REST APIs, webhooks and cloud deployment.
• Strong spoken English for live calls with a US team.

Responsibilities

• Own and ship internal automation roadmap: production LLM and agent systems.
• Build agents and workflows with tool use and function calling.
• Create evals and guardrails to prevent unsafe model actions.
• Develop integrations with WordPress, Figma, Google Workspace, Slack and MCP servers.

Skills

Python

TypeScript/Node.js

LLM/Agent systems

REST APIs

English communication

Tools

WordPress

Figma

Google Workspace

Slack

MCP servers

Job description

About The Role

Blacksmith Agency is building AI into every part of how we work. As Generative AI Engineer at Blacksmith, you own and ship our internal automation roadmap: production LLM and agent systems that real people on our team use every day. This is a builder role, not research. You will not train models.

Blacksmith Agency

• Engineering
• Full time, your only job
• Remote (Latin America and South Africa)

About The Role

Blacksmith Agency is building AI into every part of how we work. As Generative AI Engineer at Blacksmith, you own and ship our internal automation roadmap: production LLM and agent systems that real people on our team use every day. This is a builder role, not research. You will not train models.

We hire engineers who have already shipped an LLM system to production and can walk us through it in detail: what it did, how it was built, what broke and what they changed. This is a full-time seat and it has to be your only job.

What You Will Build

• Agents and workflows with tool use and function calling on Anthropic and OpenAI, with a framework or plain APIs.
• Evals that prove a change made things better, and guardrails that stop a model taking a wrong or unsafe action.
• Integrations connecting WordPress, Figma, Google Workspace, Slack and our internal systems, including MCP servers.
• Internal tools that take measurable hours off delivery, sales operations and project management.

What You Bring

• 2+ years building production software in Python or TypeScript / Node.js.
• At least one LLM or agent system you built yourself that ran in production with real users.
• Hands-on tool use, evals and failure handling: validating model output, retries, human approval.
• REST APIs, webhooks and cloud deployment.
• Strong spoken English. You will talk through technical decisions on live calls with a US team.

Not a fit if

• You freelance or contract for other clients and would keep them alongside this job.
• Your LLM work is demos, tutorials or chat prompting, or your focus is model training and research.