Lead AI Engineer: Autonomous Production & Automation

Hire Resolve

Johannesburg

On-site

ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,700,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Hire Resolve is seeking a Lead AI Engineer for a leading South African packaging manufacturer. You will own the agentic planning system end-to-end, drive governance, safety controls, and deployment pipelines.

Engage with factory operations to map workflows, architect scalable solutions across planning, logistics, procurement and finance, and report progress and technical debt to executive leadership. Eligible candidates have 8+ years in software engineering, 3+ in senior roles, and hands-on

Qualifications

Minimum 8+ years in software engineering with 3+ years in senior/lead roles.
Strong fundamentals in software engineering, not solely ML research.
Experience with ERP/MRP and manufacturing environments.
Willingness to master corrugated packaging manufacturing nuances.

Responsibilities

Own agentic MRP/planning systems; establish source control and deployment pipelines.
Eliminate single points of failure; maintain rollbacks and manual fallback plans.
Implement safety controls with human-in-the-loop approvals and fail-fast behavior.
Build evaluation harnesses for historical testing of prompts, code, or models.
Lead staged releases from Shadow to Canary with governance.
Provide telemetry, audit trails, and governance-compliant observability.