Machine Learning Engineer Iii

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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

• AWS experience
• Prompt Engineering and model optimisation

• 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

• Completed an Honors Degree or higher