Remote Principal AI Engineer — Computer Vision Leader

Placements24; Upington; Hybrid; ZAR 19,760,000 - 29,639,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and bonuses

Health, dental, vision insurance

Flexible working hours

Learning budget for conferences/trai n

Remote work infrastructure

Job summary

Placements24 seeks a Principal AI Engineer (Remote) with deep expertise in computer vision to architect and deploy advanced CV systems. You will lead on object detection, segmentation, facial recognition, and video analysis, guiding a distributed team toward production-ready solutions.

You will mentor engineers, translate complex research into scalable code, and collaborate across product and software teams in a highly autonomous remote culture. Strong DL framework experience is essential.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a relevant field with CV/ML focus.
• 7+ years of professional AI engineering experience with CV.
• Experience deploying CV models with TensorFlow or PyTorch.
• Familiarity with OpenCV, Pillow, and Keras toolkits.
• Programming in Python, C++, or Java; cloud and MLOps exposure.
• Strong independent work and remote collaboration ability.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement advanced CV algorithms and DL models.
• Build scalable ML pipelines for training, evaluation, deployment.
• Work with large image/video datasets ensuring data quality.
• Optimize models for real-time performance and efficiency.
• Collaborate with software/product teams to integrate AI.
• Stay at CV research frontier and mentor junior engineers.
• Document designs, architectures, and best practices.

Skills

Problem solving

Independent work

Mentoring

Communication skills

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/EE or related field

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

OpenCV

Pillow

Keras

Python

C++/Java

AWS/GCP/Azure

MLOps tools

Job description

Placements24 seeks a Principal AI Engineer (Remote) with deep expertise in computer vision to architect and deploy advanced CV systems. You will lead on object detection, segmentation, facial recognition, and video analysis, guiding a distributed team toward production-ready solutions.

You will mentor engineers, translate complex research into scalable code, and collaborate across product and software teams in a highly autonomous remote culture. Strong DL framework experience is essential.