Senior ML Engineer — Remote, Real-World E‑commerce AI

Takealot Group; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Mr D, a division of the Takealot Group, in Cape Town, invites applications for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to develop robust models for ecommerce. You will work on production-ready ML systems, handle data-rich inputs, and contribute across the ML lifecycle in a dynamic, fast-growing team.

You’ll collaborate in an agile environment, implement scalable data pipelines, and push models to production while staying current with ML best practices. Remote or hybrid options available.

Qualifications

• Experience applying ML to real-world problems.
• Strong understanding of statistical analysis, modeling, and ML techniques.
• Experience in an agile cross-functional environment.
• Proficiency with Python and data processing tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop robust ML models for ecommerce problems.
• Analyze, build, evaluate, and productionise ML models.

Skills

Applied machine learning

Agile team experience

Data mining

Big data

Education

Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

MSc or PhD

Tools

Python

Linux

BigQuery

TensorFlow

Scikit-learn

PyTorch

Pandas

Kubeflow

TensorFlow Extended

MLflow

Sagemaker Pipelines

VertexAI

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Kafka

Redis

Job description

Mr D, a division of the Takealot Group, in Cape Town, invites applications for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to develop robust models for ecommerce. You will work on production-ready ML systems, handle data-rich inputs, and contribute across the ML lifecycle in a dynamic, fast-growing team.

You’ll collaborate in an agile environment, implement scalable data pipelines, and push models to production while staying current with ML best practices. Remote or hybrid options available.