Remote ML Engineer: Build Scalable AI Models

Placements24

Durban

Hybrid

ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary
Health insurance
Paid time off
Home office budget
Professional development
Remote-friendly culture

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a talented Remote Machine Learning Engineer to join a globally distributed team. You will design, build, and deploy robust ML models, work on challenging datasets, and contribute to cutting-edge AI solutions.

This role emphasizes collaboration across cross-functional teams in a fully remote setup. Ideal candidates have strong Python skills, experience with ML libraries, and a solid cloud/MLops background.

Qualifications

  • Degree in computer science, engineering or related field.
  • Proven experience as a machine learning engineer or similar role.
  • Strong programming with Python and ML libraries.
  • Solid understanding of ML algorithms and software engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, train, and deploy scalable machine learning models.
  • Design and implement data pipelines for model training and evaluation.
  • Collaborate with data scientists and software engineers to deploy models in production.
  • Monitor and optimize performance of deployed ML models.
  • Run experiments to test new algorithms and techniques.
  • Contribute to codebase with high quality, maintainable code.

Skills

Machine learning
Remote collaboration
ML problem solving

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Python
Scikit-learn
TensorFlow
PyTorch
AWS
Azure
GCP

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a talented Remote Machine Learning Engineer to join a globally distributed team. You will design, build, and deploy robust ML models, work on challenging datasets, and contribute to cutting-edge AI solutions.

This role emphasizes collaboration across cross-functional teams in a fully remote setup. Ideal candidates have strong Python skills, experience with ML libraries, and a solid cloud/MLops background.

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