Senior ML Engineer — Lead Scalable AI Platforms

Placements24; Klerksdorp; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Professional development

State-of-the-art facilities

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Placements24 in Klerksdorp, South Africa, seeks a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to design, build, and deploy AI platforms. You will work with massive datasets, implement scalable ML models, and optimize pipelines from data ingestion to production.

Collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers, apply MLOps best practices, monitor models, ensure reproducibility, and explore new ML technologies for platform capabilities.

Qualifications

• MS/PhD in CS, Engineering, Statistics or related field with ML specialization.
• Minimum 5 years of professional ML engineering experience.
• Proficient in Python, Java, or Scala; experience with ML frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement scalable ML models and algorithms.
• Build and maintain robust ML pipelines for data ingestion, training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Optimize ML models for performance on cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to define requirements.
• Develop and implement MLOps practices including monitoring and versioning.
• Research and evaluate new ML technologies to enhance platforms.
• Troubleshoot ML model performance and infrastructure issues.
• Contribute to the AI platform roadmap and technical direction.
• Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge across the team.
• Ensure security, reliability, and ethics of AI systems.

Skills

Python

Java

Scala

ML libraries

MLOps

Cloud platforms

Data handling

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Education

MS/PhD in CS/Engineering/Statistics

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Keras

scikit-learn

Docker

Kubernetes

Kubeflow

MLflow

Spark

Hadoop

Job description

Placements24 in Klerksdorp, South Africa, seeks a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to design, build, and deploy AI platforms. You will work with massive datasets, implement scalable ML models, and optimize pipelines from data ingestion to production.

Collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers, apply MLOps best practices, monitor models, ensure reproducibility, and explore new ML technologies for platform capabilities.