Intermediate AI LLM Engineer — Conversational AI & Voice

e-Merge IT Recruitment

Sandton

On-site

ZAR 720,000 - 880,000

Full time

35 hours ago

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Job summary

e-Merge IT Recruitment seeks an Intermediate AI Engineer to join a specialist technology environment focused on AI-driven conversational systems in Sandton. You will work hands-on with LLMs, voice agents, automated testing, AI coding tools, and modern software development practices.

The ideal candidate has 4–6 years in software engineering with strong Python skills, APIs, SQL, and CI workflows, plus hands-on LLM experience. Growth in a collaborative, forward-thinking team is offered.

Qualifications

/ Must-have: 4 to 6 years software engineering (or equivalent applied experience).
/ Solid Python; comfortable with APIs, SQL, and modern git/CI workflows.
/ Hands-on LLM application work (prompting, tool use, agents — production preferred).
/ Willingness to learn Azure Functions, messaging, blob storage, and SQL in a production environment.

Responsibilities

Implement prompt changes, tool handlers, and function/webhook logic for voice agents.
Build or improve automated QA workers and analysis jobs (queues, artifacts, scoring ingest).
Write and maintain unit/contract tests and scenario-based eval cases.
Translate scorecard / conversation requirements into schemas and fixtures.
Support post-call analytics tasks such as scoring result ingestion, data mapping, and output validation.
Diagnose and fix production issues with logging/observability support.
Support early email/WhatsApp bot flows under senior/lead direction.
Use AI coding tools to accelerate learning and delivery.