Machine Learning Engineer Iii

Capitec Client Care; Stellenbosch; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to integrate generative AI into products and services. This role focuses on enhancing user experiences and maintaining competitiveness in a fast-paced environment. With a strong emphasis on deploying and fine-tuning AI models, the successful candidate will lead technical teams and manage big data processing frameworks. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a mission-driven organization dedicated to unlocking the potential of its people and building the best bank in the world. If you have a passion for AI and machine learning, we would love to hear from you!

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in machine learning engineering.
• Hands-on experience with AI frameworks and integrating models.

Responsibilities

• Apply and integrate generative AI models into products and services.
• Guide technical teams to uphold ML standards and practices.

Skills

Machine Learning Engineering

Generative AI Models

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Python

SQL

PySpark

Big Data Frameworks

Github

Education

Honors Degree or higher

Tools

AWS

Hadoop

Kafka

Job description

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Date: 19 Mar 2025

Location: Stellenbosch, Western Cape, ZA

Company: Capitec Bank Ltd

About The Role

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Capitec, you will prioritize applying and integrating generative AI models into products and services while leveraging machine learning expertise to enhance the efficiency of Data Scientists and Decision Scientists. Your contributions will be essential in positioning and enhancing user experiences through AI at Capitec, ensuring the company remains competitive in a rapidly evolving landscape.

This position requires leveraging your extensive understanding of machine learning models, from conception to deployment. You will guide and lead technical teams to uphold ML standards and practices, manage big data processing frameworks, and operate within cloud environments. Additionally, you will be responsible for deploying and fine-tuning generative AI models, as well as integrating these AI models into applications and services using prompt engineering and model optimization techniques.

Our Ideal Candidate Has

• 6+ years of experience in a Machine Learning engineering role
• Using AI frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch to deploy and fine-tune generative AI models (GPT and DALL-E).
• Hands-on experience integrating AI Models into applications and services
• Python and SQL experience
• PySpark
• Big data frameworks – Hadoop/Kafka
• Github experience or Git

Ideal

• AWS experience
• Prompt Engineering and model optimisation

Competencies

• Simplify and make it easy
• Earn and extend trust
• Plan, deliver and raise the bar
• Curious and continuously learns
• Act, learn and adapt
• Inspire optimism and persistence
• Have courage, disagree and commit

Education

• Completed an Honors Degree or higher

If you are interested in being part of this dynamic team, on a mission to build the best bank in the world through unlocking the potential of its people, please apply. We would love to hear from you!

Capitec is committed to diversity and, where feasible, all appointments will support the achievement of our employment equity goals.
Capitec is committed to diversity; applications to this position will strictly be considered in support of our employment equity goals.
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