Senior AI Engineer & Prompting Architect

Klipboard; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work policy

Job summary

Klipboard is seeking a senior AI/engineering leader to shape how a large engineering organization uses AI in real products and development work. You will set patterns, create evaluation standards, coach engineers and help Klipboard turn AI from experimentation into repeatable, scalable practice.

As part of a two-in-one role, you’ll focus on prompt engineering, context design, and evaluation while lifting the capability of the broader engineering team across the UK and South Africa.

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Be the sceptical voice when something demos well but will not hold up in production; be the encouraging one when a genuinely good idea needs backing.
• Maintain high standards for safety, accuracy and data handling in everything that ships.

Skills

Software engineering

AI tooling

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

LangChain

Job description

Klipboard is seeking a senior AI/engineering leader to shape how a large engineering organization uses AI in real products and development work. You will set patterns, create evaluation standards, coach engineers and help Klipboard turn AI from experimentation into repeatable, scalable practice.

As part of a two-in-one role, you’ll focus on prompt engineering, context design, and evaluation while lifting the capability of the broader engineering team across the UK and South Africa.