Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Hybrid, Impactful AI

Placements24; Polokwane; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Remote work flexibility

Career development

Collaborative team environment

Job summary

Placements24 in Polokwane, Limpopo is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to design, develop, and deploy scalable ML systems in production. This hybrid role combines remote work with in-office collaboration days to drive impactful AI initiatives.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years in ML engineering, strong Python and ML library skills, and experience with MLOps, cloud platforms, and large datasets. You will collaborate with data scientists and software engineers to translate research into

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/Engineering/Statistics or related field.
• Minimum 4 years of professional ML engineering experience.
• Strong Python programming with ML libraries (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn).
• Experience with data processing tools (Pandas, Spark).
• Familiar with MLOps: deployment, monitoring, CI/CD.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and collaboration skills.
• Hybrid work preference for Polokwane, Limpopo.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable ML systems and pipelines.
• Develop and implement ML algorithms for classification, regression, clustering, and recommendations.
• Collaborate with data scientists to productionize models.
• Preprocess data, feature engineer, and evaluate models on large datasets.
• Optimize models for performance, scalability, and efficiency.
• Deploy ML models using MLOps practices.
• Monitor deployed models for accuracy and reliability.
• Integrate ML models into applications with software teams.
• Stay up-to-date with AI advancements.
• Document designs, code, and experiments.

Skills

Python

TensorFlow

PyTorch

scikit-learn

Pandas

Spark

CI/CD pipelines

MLOps

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Hybrid collaboration

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science/Engineering/Statistics

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

Placements24 in Polokwane, Limpopo is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to design, develop, and deploy scalable ML systems in production. This hybrid role combines remote work with in-office collaboration days to drive impactful AI initiatives.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years in ML engineering, strong Python and ML library skills, and experience with MLOps, cloud platforms, and large datasets. You will collaborate with data scientists and software engineers to translate research into