Hybrid ML Engineer - Predictive Analytics & MLOps

Placements24; Richards Bay; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Medical aid and retirement fund

Performance bonuses

Professional development opportunities

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Placements24 in Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, is seeking a skilled Machine Learning Engineer to design, train, and deploy predictive models for client operations. The role emphasizes data wrangling, feature engineering, and building robust ML solutions for production environments.

You will collaborate with data scientists, domain experts, and software engineers to translate business requirements into scalable ML workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a quantitative field.
• 3+ years of ML engineering or data science experience building predictive models.
• Proficiency in Python and ML libraries (scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras).
• Experience with Pandas/SQL and data warehousing concepts.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and containerization is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, train, and deploy ML models for predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, and performance optimization.
• Work with large-scale datasets, perform data wrangling, feature engineering, and exploratory data analysis.
• Collaborate with domain experts and software engineers to translate business needs into ML solutions.
• Develop and maintain robust data pipelines for model training and inference.
• Implement ML models into production systems with scalability and reliability.
• Monitor model performance and retrain as necessary in production.
• Stay updated on ML/DL advances and contribute to MLOps best practices.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Communication skills

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Engineering

Tools

Python

scikit-learn

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Keras

Pandas

SQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Spark

Job description

Placements24 in Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, is seeking a skilled Machine Learning Engineer to design, train, and deploy predictive models for client operations. The role emphasizes data wrangling, feature engineering, and building robust ML solutions for production environments.

You will collaborate with data scientists, domain experts, and software engineers to translate business requirements into scalable ML workflows.