Predictive ML Engineer: Forecasting & Insights

Placements24; Polokwane; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement benefits

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Placements24 in Polokwane is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to develop predictive analytics models and data-driven solutions. You will work with large datasets, building pipelines and deploying models for forecasting and anomaly detection.

The ideal candidate will have 2+ years in ML or data science, strong statistical knowledge, and proficiency in Python, with experience in TensorFlow/PyTorch and big data tools. This role emphasizes collaboration and impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in a quantitative field.
• 2+ years of professional ML engineering or data science experience.
• Strong background in statistical modeling, regression, classification and time-series analysis.
• Proficiency in Python and ML libraries (Pandas, NumP…, Scikit-learn).
• Experience with deep learning frameworks is a plus.
• Familiar with data warehousing, SQL and big data technologies.
• Ability to work with large datasets and strong problem-solving skills.
• Good communication and collaboration abilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy ML models for predictive analytics, forecasting, and anomaly detection.
• Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to translate business needs into technical specs.
• Clean, preprocess, and engineer features from large datasets.
• Develop data pipelines for model training and inference.
• Evaluate modeling techniques and monitor deployed models, retraining as needed.
• Work with Python and libraries like Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.
• Handle big data technologies and database systems.
• Document models, methodologies, and results.

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science

Tools

Python

Pandas

NumPy

Scikit-learn

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Spark

Hadoop

SQL

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Placements24 in Polokwane is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to develop predictive analytics models and data-driven solutions. You will work with large datasets, building pipelines and deploying models for forecasting and anomaly detection.

The ideal candidate will have 2+ years in ML or data science, strong statistical knowledge, and proficiency in Python, with experience in TensorFlow/PyTorch and big data tools. This role emphasizes collaboration and impact.