Junior AI Automation Engineer: Build Real-World AI Workflows

First Point Group; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

First Point Group is seeking a Junior Automation Engineer to join an innovative AI and automation environment. You will work on AI-powered automation solutions across multiple business areas, partnering with experienced engineers and business teams to turn opportunities into working systems.

Ideal candidates have a foundation in Python, AI/LLM frameworks, and API-based integration, with around two years of experience and a Bachelor's degree.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field (Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems) or equivalent.
• Approximately 2 years of hands-on software/AI project experience (internships, academic projects, or relevant roles).
• Practical exposure to Python and at least one AI/LLM framework or API.

Responsibilities

• Build, test and deploy AI agents and automated workflows into production.
• Work with Large Language Models (LLMs), RAG and agent-based workflows to solve business problems.
• Contribute to the development of an internal AI platform including model gateways, agent runtimes, and integrations.
• Integrate AI solutions with ERP, CRM, ticketing platforms, databases and other sources via APIs.
• Collaborate with Sales, Finance, HR, Tech Support, Production and Marketing to automate processes.
• Monitor and improve performance, reliability and cost of deployed AI solutions.
• Develop evaluation and regression tests to ensure ongoing performance of automations.
• Gain exposure to containers, CI pipelines, monitoring tools and AI infrastructure.

Skills

Python

AI & LLM

APIs

Relational Databases

Docker & Containers

RAG

CI pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

LiteLLM

Qdrant

pgvector

Langfuse

Docker

vLLM

Job description

First Point Group is seeking a Junior Automation Engineer to join an innovative AI and automation environment. You will work on AI-powered automation solutions across multiple business areas, partnering with experienced engineers and business teams to turn opportunities into working systems.

Ideal candidates have a foundation in Python, AI/LLM frameworks, and API-based integration, with around two years of experience and a Bachelor's degree.