Remote Machine Learning Engineer - Build Pipelines

Placements24; Mtubatuba Local Municipality; Hybrid; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary with bonuses

Health and wellness benefits

Generous paid time off

Professional development opportunities

Access to cloud resources for ML work

Remote-first collaborative culture

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a highly skilled Machine Learning Engineer for a fully remote role. You will lead the ML lifecycle from preprocessing and feature engineering to model training, validation and deployment, impacting business intelligence and operational efficiency.

You will work with large datasets, and cutting-edge tools to build predictive models and intelligent systems, collaborating with data scientists, engineers, and analysts across a remote-first team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, or a related quantitative field.
• 3+ years experience as a Machine Learning Engineer or in a predictive modelling role.
• Strong programming skills in Python and ML libraries (Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras).
• Experience with data manipulation and analysis tools (Pandas, NumPy, SQL).
• Understanding of statistical concepts and ML algorithms.
• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and MLOps is a plus.
• Ability to work remotely in a collaborative team.
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain ML pipelines for predictive modeling.
• Develop and implement algorithms for classification, regression, clustering, and time-series forecasting.
• Perform data exploration, cleaning, and feature engineering on large datasets.
• Train, evaluate, and fine-tune ML models using various libraries.
• Deploy ML models into production with scalability and reliability.
• Monitor model performance and plan retraining and updates.
• Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and analysts to deliver solutions.
• Automate ML workflows to improve efficiency.
• Stay updated with AI and analytics advancements.
• Document methodologies, experiments, and results thoroughly.

Skills

Python

ML algorithms

Data manipulation

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/DS

Tools

Scikit-learn

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Keras

Pandas

NumPy

SQL

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a highly skilled Machine Learning Engineer for a fully remote role. You will lead the ML lifecycle from preprocessing and feature engineering to model training, validation and deployment, impacting business intelligence and operational efficiency.

You will work with large datasets, and cutting-edge tools to build predictive models and intelligent systems, collaborating with data scientists, engineers, and analysts across a remote-first team.