Senior AI Engineer: Prompting, Evaluation & Scalable AI

ATS Client; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Klipboard is seeking a senior AI engineering leader to shape how the company uses AI in real products. You will set patterns, build evaluation standards and coach engineers to turn AI experimentation into scalable engineering practice.

You will work across models and providers, collaborate with product teams, and help define what good looks like for prompting, context engineering and evaluation. Some travel between the UK and SA offices is expected.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with several years building and shipping production software.
• Hands-on experience with large language models: prompt design, context engineering and structured outputs.
• Experience building evaluations or test harnesses for LLM outputs.
• 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

• Design, build and refine prompts, context strategies and agentic workflows for AI features in Klipboard products.
• Coach engineers across teams to spread best practices and improve AI coding workflows.
• Define standards for prompting, evaluation and context engineering and maintain them as tools evolve.

Skills

Software engineering

Prompt design

Mentoring

GitHub Copilot

AI tooling

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

LangChain

Semantic Kernel

Job description

Klipboard is seeking a senior AI engineering leader to shape how the company uses AI in real products. You will set patterns, build evaluation standards and coach engineers to turn AI experimentation into scalable engineering practice.

You will work across models and providers, collaborate with product teams, and help define what good looks like for prompting, context engineering and evaluation. Some travel between the UK and SA offices is expected.