Remote AI Product Engineering Lead

Network Recruitment; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Network Recruitment is seeking an AI Product Engineering Lead in South Africa to own the intelligence capabilities of a live enterprise platform. You will shape product strategy and directly influence technical delivery, combining hands-on coding with strategic direction to scale AI capabilities.

You will drive the AI roadmap, build dependable intelligence, and ensure solutions are reliable, measurable, and impactful across real-world operations.

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering production AI capabilities.
• Proven track record in turning product strategy into technical delivery.
• Hands-on leadership with the ability to write and review code.
• Strong understanding of data governance and permissions.
• Experience with Azure AI services and Microsoft AI tooling.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the AI product vision and roadmap.
• Deliver AI capabilities from concept through deployment.
• Ensure AI, automation, and knowledge components work together.
• Establish engineering best practices and patterns for AI capability uplift.
• Build, test, and deploy improvements in Azure-based .NET services.

Skills

C# & .NET (ASP.NET Core)

AI-powered applications

Microsoft AI SDKs

Tool and function calling

Multi-agent architectures

Azure AI services

APIs and API-first environments

Tools

Azure-based .NET services

Job description

Network Recruitment is seeking an AI Product Engineering Lead in South Africa to own the intelligence capabilities of a live enterprise platform. You will shape product strategy and directly influence technical delivery, combining hands-on coding with strategic direction to scale AI capabilities.

You will drive the AI roadmap, build dependable intelligence, and ensure solutions are reliable, measurable, and impactful across real-world operations.