Senior ML Engineer — AI Research for Scalable Impact

Placements24; Klerksdorp; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Retirement plan

Professional development

Computing resources

Conference attendance

Job summary

Placements24 in Klerksdorp, North West, seeks a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to design, develop, and deploy advanced ML models and scalable pipelines to solve real-world AI challenges.

You will collaborate with researchers and software engineers, publish practical results, mentor juniors, and ensure code quality with CI/CD. A strong background in deep learning, ML algorithms, Python, and modern frameworks is essential.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in CS/ML/AI/Statistics.
• ≥5 years of industry ML engineering or AI research.
• Proficiency in Python and ML libraries (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn).
• Experience with data processing, version control, and CI/CD.
• Strong problem-solving and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Design and evaluate state-of-the-art ML models, including deep learning.
• Build scalable ML pipelines for data prep, training, deployment.
• Collaborate with product managers to define ML requirements.
• Experiment to optimize accuracy, efficiency, robustness.
• Stay updated with ML research and AI advances.
• Write clean, production-ready code.
• Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge.
• Analyze large datasets to extract insights for model development.

Skills

Python

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Scikit-learn

Deep learning

ML algorithms

CI/CD

Git

Data analysis

Education

Master's/PhD in CS/ML/AI

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Placements24 in Klerksdorp, North West, seeks a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to design, develop, and deploy advanced ML models and scalable pipelines to solve real-world AI challenges.

You will collaborate with researchers and software engineers, publish practical results, mentor juniors, and ensure code quality with CI/CD. A strong background in deep learning, ML algorithms, Python, and modern frameworks is essential.