Senior AI Developer

MECS Africa; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Pretoria is seeking an experienced professional in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. The ideal candidate must have a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and at least 5 years of experience implementing machine learning models. The role requires strong programming skills and proficiency in using cloud platforms like AWS and Azure. Candidates with advanced degrees will have an advantage.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning.
• Experience with regression, classification models for supervised learning.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop junior staff.

Skills

Applied machine learning

Natural language processing

Project Management

Cloud-based platforms

Deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow, Keras)

Object-oriented programming

Quantitative skills (mathematics/statistics)

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Honours or Master's degree

Tools

AWS

IBM Cloud

Azure

Job description

Requirements

• A Bachelors degree in computer science / engineering, electrical / electronic engineering, information technology or related field with at least five years experience in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning and software development in Artificial Intelligence Technologies;
• An Honours or Masters degree will be advantageous;

Experience

• Applied machine-learning with regression, classification, etc. models for supervised learning;
• Natural language processing and understanding, Large language models;
• Building multimodal models;
• Unstructured data;
• Big-data unsupervised learning;
• Data platform engineering;
• Demonstrated experience in bringing theoretical machine-learning approaches illustrated in academia research papers to actual implementations, i.e. implemented and deployed into large-scale production system certain advanced ML and applied ML algorithms;
• Cloud-based platforms : AWS, IBM Cloud, Azure;
• Proficiency and experience building AI models with a deep learning framework such as TensorFlow, Keras or Theano;
• Ability to select hardware to run an ML model with the required latency;
• Exposure to Project Management;
• Understanding of transforming / implementing software / algorithms for use in real-life systems would be advantageous;
• Knowledge of programming in modern object orientated languages, with Open-Source development tools and platforms;
• Ability to demonstrate Object-orientated software engineering skills;
• Strong quantitative skills (mathematics / statistics / computer science);
• Demonstrated ability to supervise / mentor / develop junior staff;