Staff AI Engineer — Lead Production AI & Platform

Jobgether; South Africa; Presencial; ZAR 900.000 - 1.600.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive salary

Production AI solutions

Broad technical scope

Architectural influence

Proprietary dataset access

High autonomy role

Diversity-friendly workplace

Descripción de la vacante

Jobgether is partnering with a client in South Africa to hire a Staff AI Engineer. The role centers on leading AI initiatives, architecting scalable AI platforms, and delivering production-grade AI systems that improve real customer experiences.

You will influence architecture, drive evaluations, and mentor teams across Product, Design, QA, and Engineering. You will shape the AI roadmap, balance deterministic and LLM approaches, and ensure secure, cost-effective implementations while maintaining

Formación

• Extensive experience as Staff Engineer or equivalent, leading complex initiatives as a hands-on IC.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of major AI initiatives (AI assistants, data systems, generative features).
• Contribute to production AI systems from architecture to deployment and ongoing improvements.
• Improve AI quality, reliability, and performance with measurable enhancements and coverage.
• Own AI projects from planning through cross-functional collaboration, deployment, and optimization.
• Define AI architecture and shared platform infrastructure across teams.
• Establish scalable AI quality frameworks with automated evaluations, testing, and monitoring.
• Design reliable AI agents and tool integrations balancing deterministic logic and LLMs.
• Advance engineering practices, code review, documentation, and evaluation standards.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, QA, Operations to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Mentor engineers and promote architectural standards and a culture of continuous improvement.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Python

LLM applications

AI systems

APIs (REST/GraphQL)

AI evaluation

Security & reliability

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Herramientas

Django

PostgreSQL

Redis

REST/GraphQL APIs

Descripción del empleo

Jobgether is partnering with a client in South Africa to hire a Staff AI Engineer. The role centers on leading AI initiatives, architecting scalable AI platforms, and delivering production-grade AI systems that improve real customer experiences.

You will influence architecture, drive evaluations, and mentor teams across Product, Design, QA, and Engineering. You will shape the AI roadmap, balance deterministic and LLM approaches, and ensure secure, cost-effective implementations while maintaining