Lead ML Engineer — Hybrid, Scale ML Systems & Team

Placements24; Stellenbosch; Hybrid; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement plan with match

Paid time off

Job summary

Placements24 in Stellenbosch, Western Cape, ZA is seeking an experienced Lead Machine Learning Engineer to design, develop, and deploy scalable ML systems. You will lead a team of engineers, guiding them from data preprocessing and model training to production deployment in a fast-paced environment.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in software engineering with a strong ML focus, expert Python, and hands-on experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Docker/Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering with a strong ML focus.
• Experience leading a team of engineers.
• Strong Python and ML libraries.
• Experience with distributed systems and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect scalable ML systems.
• Develop, train, and deploy ML models using TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn.
• Oversee end-to-end ML lifecycle: data pipelines, feature engineering, deployment.
• Mentor ML engineers and enforce coding/testing best practices.
• Collaborate with data scientists and product managers.
• Optimize model performance, latency, and resource usage in production.
• Implement monitoring and alerting for ML models.

Job description

Placements24 in Stellenbosch, Western Cape, ZA is seeking an experienced Lead Machine Learning Engineer to design, develop, and deploy scalable ML systems. You will lead a team of engineers, guiding them from data preprocessing and model training to production deployment in a fast-paced environment.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in software engineering with a strong ML focus, expert Python, and hands-on experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Docker/Kubernetes.