Remote Senior ML Engineer - Medical Imaging & Diagnostics

Placements24; Durban; Hybrid; ZAR 1,976,000 - 2,964,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

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Health benefits

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to work remotely on medical imaging and diagnostic models. You will manage the ML lifecycle—from data preprocessing to deployment—contributing to cutting-edge healthcare tech with a global team, including colleagues based in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.

The role requires a Master’s/PhD in a quantitative field and 5+ years of deep learning experience, with strong Python and cloud ML tooling.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, ML, Data Science or related field.
• 5+ years of professional ML engineering experience with deep learning.
• Proficiency in Python and ML libraries such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, train, and deploy ML models for medical imaging and diagnostics.
• Develop robust data pipelines for large medical datasets.
• Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to define scope and requirements.

Skills

Python programming

ML model deployment

Deep learning

Data analysis

Remote collaboration

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/ML/DS

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

scikit-learn

AWS/Azure/GCP

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to work remotely on medical imaging and diagnostic models. You will manage the ML lifecycle—from data preprocessing to deployment—contributing to cutting-edge healthcare tech with a global team, including colleagues based in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.

The role requires a Master’s/PhD in a quantitative field and 5+ years of deep learning experience, with strong Python and cloud ML tooling.