Remote Principal ML Engineer — AI Innovator

Placements24; Kempton Park; Remote; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Performance bonuses

Comprehensive benefits package

Remote-first role with flexible work

Learning funds for conferences and培训

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a visionary Principal Machine Learning Engineer to drive design, development, and deployment of cutting-edge ML solutions in a fully remote South Africa setup. You will mentor engineers, shape best practices, and steer innovation across AI initiatives.

You will lead cross-disciplinary efforts with data scientists, engineers, and product managers while advancing MLOps, model monitoring, and scalable pipelines in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, ML, AI or related quantitative field.
• 7+ years hands-on ML engineering experience with impact delivery.
• Proficient in Python and ML libraries (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn).
• Experience with big data tech (Spark, Hadoop) and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Strong knowledge of ML algorithms (supervised, unsupervised, deep learning).
• Experience with MLOps, CI/CD for ML, monitoring, and deployment strategies.
• Excellent leadership, mentoring, and collaboration in a fully remote setup.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and deployment of advanced ML models and algorithms.
• Architect scalable ML pipelines for data processing, training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product managers to translate needs into ML solutions.
• Mentor junior ML engineers and promote technical excellence.
• Research and experiment with new ML technologies and frameworks.
• Optimize ML models for performance, scalability, and efficiency.
• Ensure responsible and ethical AI applications.
• Contribute to the ML team's technical vision and strategy.
• Troubleshoot production ML systems and deployments.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Problem solving

ML algorithms

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/ML/AI

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

scikit-learn

Spark

Hadoop

AWS

Azure

GCP

CI/CD, MLOps

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a visionary Principal Machine Learning Engineer to drive design, development, and deployment of cutting-edge ML solutions in a fully remote South Africa setup. You will mentor engineers, shape best practices, and steer innovation across AI initiatives.

You will lead cross-disciplinary efforts with data scientists, engineers, and product managers while advancing MLOps, model monitoring, and scalable pipelines in a fast-paced environment.