Senior Hybrid AI & Data Science Engineer

Communicate Recruitment; Stellenbosch; Hybrid; ZAR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Petabyte-scale data exposure

Mentorship & learning

Cross-disciplinary AI/Data focus

Job summary

Communicate Recruitment in Stellenbosch seeks a data science/software engineering professional to design and implement ML/AI features across the product lifecycle. You will train, deploy, and support models in production and build systems capable of handling large-scale datasets.

The role emphasizes collaboration with engineers and data specialists within a hybrid work model, fostering innovation, mentorship, and continuous learning in a cross-functional team.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in Data Science or a data-focused software engineering role.
• Proven experience training, deploying, and supporting ML/AI models in production.
• Strong programming ability in Python and/or Java.
• Strong SQL and large datasets experience.
• Data wrangling, feature engineering, model evaluation.
• Unix-based environments, scripting, networking, troubleshooting.
• Version control, containers, CI/CD and microservice architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement ML/AI features from concept through deployment.
• Work across the full product lifecycle from idea to deployment.
• Train, deploy, and support ML models in production environments.
• Build software to process and analyse large-scale datasets.
• Collaborate with engineers, data specialists and cross-functional teams.
• Contribute to scalable distributed systems and microservices.
• Ensure solutions are practical, maintainable and valuable to users.
• Contribute to an engineering culture centred on innovation and learning.

Skills

Python

Java

SQL

Data wrangling

Feature engineering

Model evaluation

Unix

CI/CD

Containers

Microservice architectures

Version control

Big data

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics or related quantitative discipline

Tools

Apache Kafka

Docker

Job description

Communicate Recruitment in Stellenbosch seeks a data science/software engineering professional to design and implement ML/AI features across the product lifecycle. You will train, deploy, and support models in production and build systems capable of handling large-scale datasets.

The role emphasizes collaboration with engineers and data specialists within a hybrid work model, fostering innovation, mentorship, and continuous learning in a cross-functional team.