Senior AI Engineer (Remote, Brakpan)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Brakpan; À distance; ZAR 2 304 000 - 2 962 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Blacksmith Agency LLC is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to own and ship our internal automation roadmap, including production LLM and agent systems used by the team daily.

The role emphasizes building in production, not research, with a remote setup and a requirement to have shipped an LLM system to production. You will collaborate on architecture with a US-based team and must be able to discuss details on calls.

Qualifications

• Shipped an LLM system to production with real users.
• Experience building production software in Python or TypeScript.
• Ability to validate model outputs, implement retries, and use human approvals.

Responsabilités

• Own and ship the internal automation roadmap for production LLM and agent systems.
• Build agents/workflows with tool use and function calling via APIs.
• Develop integrations with WordPress, Figma, Google Workspace, Slack, and MCP servers.

Connaissances

Python/TypeScript

Production systems

LLM/Agent systems

API integration

English communication

Outils

REST APIs

Cloud deployment

OpenAI/Anthropic tools

Description du poste

About The Role

Blacksmith Agency is building AI into every part of how we work. As Senior AI Engineer at Blacksmith, you own and ship our internal automation roadmap: production LLM and agent systems that real people on our team use every day. This is a builder role, not research. You will not train models.

Blacksmith Agency

• Engineering
• Full time, your only job
• Remote (Latin America and South Africa)

About The Role

Blacksmith Agency is building AI into every part of how we work. As Senior AI Engineer at Blacksmith, you own and ship our internal automation roadmap: production LLM and agent systems that real people on our team use every day. This is a builder role, not research. You will not train models.

We hire engineers who have already shipped an LLM system to production and can walk us through it in detail: what it did, how it was built, what broke and what they changed. This is a full-time seat and it has to be your only job.

What You Will Build

• Agents and workflows with tool use and function calling on Anthropic and OpenAI, with a framework or plain APIs.
• Evals that prove a change made things better, and guardrails that stop a model taking a wrong or unsafe action.
• Integrations connecting WordPress, Figma, Google Workspace, Slack and our internal systems, including MCP servers.
• Internal tools that take measurable hours off delivery, sales operations and project management.
  

What You Bring

• 2+ years building production software in Python or TypeScript / Node.js.
• At least one LLM or agent system you built yourself that ran in production with real users.
• Hands-on tool use, evals and failure handling: validating model output, retries, human approval.
• REST APIs, webhooks and cloud deployment.
• Strong spoken English. You will talk through technical decisions on live calls with a US team.
  

Not a fit if

• You freelance or contract for other clients and would keep them alongside this job.
• Your LLM work is demos, tutorials or chat prompting, or your focus is model training and research.