Senior Python AI Platform Engineer

Sabenza IT & Recruitment; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 750,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Sabenza IT & Recruitment in Pretoria is seeking an Expert AI Engineer / Full Stack Developer to move Generative AI from experiments into production-ready solutions. You’ll work with LLMs, AI agents, RAG, prompt/context engineering and enterprise data tooling to build reusable AI platforms that empower development teams.

You’ll own end-to-end AI engineering across the software lifecycle, integrating tools, ensuring guardrails, observability, security and reliable production readiness using

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of LLMs and Generative AI application engineering.
• Hands-on experience building production-grade LLM applications and AI agents.
• Strong understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
• Prompt and context engineering.
• Agent/tool integration and orchestration.
• Structured outputs and tool calling.
• Model and application evaluation.
• AI guardrails and human approval mechanisms.
• AI observability, reliability and production monitoring.
• Responsible and secure AI engineering.

Skills

LLMs & Generative AI

AI agents

RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)

Prompt engineering

Tool integration & orchestration

AI governance & guardrails

AI observability & production tooling

Python/Java

APIs & microservices

Cloud-native (AWS)

Docker/Kubernetes

Terraform

Snowflake & Data Eng

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Snowflake

Job description

Sabenza IT & Recruitment in Pretoria is seeking an Expert AI Engineer / Full Stack Developer to move Generative AI from experiments into production-ready solutions. You’ll work with LLMs, AI agents, RAG, prompt/context engineering and enterprise data tooling to build reusable AI platforms that empower development teams.

You’ll own end-to-end AI engineering across the software lifecycle, integrating tools, ensuring guardrails, observability, security and reliable production readiness using