Remote Senior AI Engineer - Cloud ML & MLOps Architect

Placements24; Polokwane; Hybrid; ZAR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote position

Competitive salary

Professional development budget

Global team

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking an experienced Senior AI Engineer to join a fully remote team. The role focuses on designing, building, and deploying scalable AI/ML solutions within cloud environments, ensuring robust infrastructure and cost-efficient workloads.

You will lead MLOps pipelines, optimize AI models, and collaborate with data scientists and software engineers to deliver distributed AI services for a global client base.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/Engineering.
• 5+ years in software or cloud architecture with a focus on AI/ML.
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS/Azure/GCP) and AI/ML services.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy scalable AI/ML solutions on cloud platforms.
• Architect cloud infra optimized for AI workloads (compute, storage, network).
• Implement and maintain MLOps pipelines for training, deployment, monitoring.
• Optimize models for performance, scale, and cost in cloud environments.
• Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to integrate AI solutions.

Skills

Python

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

MLOps

Terraform

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Placements24 is seeking an experienced Senior AI Engineer to join a fully remote team. The role focuses on designing, building, and deploying scalable AI/ML solutions within cloud environments, ensuring robust infrastructure and cost-efficient workloads.

You will lead MLOps pipelines, optimize AI models, and collaborate with data scientists and software engineers to deliver distributed AI services for a global client base.