Senior AI Engineer - Prompting & AI Systems Leader

ADP, Inc.; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Klipboard is seeking a senior AI engineering professional to shape how a large engineering organisation uses AI in real products and development work. You will design patterns, set evaluation standards and coach engineers across UK and South Africa, balancing delivery with quality and safety.

With hundreds of engineers, the role emphasizes building shared assets and an internal community of practice. The impact is improving AI outcomes across products and teams.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with several years building and shipping production software.
• Substantial hands-on experience with large language models: prompt design, context engineering and structured outputs.
• Experience building evaluations or test harnesses for LLM outputs, and using them to improve quality measurably.
• Clear evidence of growing other engineers – through mentoring, teaching, internal training, communities of practice or similar.
• Daily working fluency with AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor or equivalents, with a practical view of where they help and where they mislead.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and refine prompts, context strategies and agentic workflows for AI features in Klipboard products.
• Grow the engineers around you – coaching, pairing, workshops and building shared assets that spread good practice across hundreds of engineers.
• Set standards and keep the organisation honest – defining what good looks like for prompting, evaluation and context engineering, and maintaining those standards as tools change.
• Deliver AI features in Klipboard products with proper evaluation and measurable quality standards.
• Embed prompt engineering and evaluation best practice across the R&D organisation.

Skills

Software engineering

Prompt design

Context engineering

LLM evaluation

Mentoring engineers

AI coding tools

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

LangChain

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

LangChain

Job description

Klipboard is seeking a senior AI engineering professional to shape how a large engineering organisation uses AI in real products and development work. You will design patterns, set evaluation standards and coach engineers across UK and South Africa, balancing delivery with quality and safety.

With hundreds of engineers, the role emphasizes building shared assets and an internal community of practice. The impact is improving AI outcomes across products and teams.