Senior Machine Learning Engineer
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Job Location:
Cape Town - South Africa
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
07-11-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Department:
Job Summary
Job title: Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Reporting to: Head of Data Engineering
Location: Cape Town South Africa
ROLE OVERVIEW
Youll work at the intersection of data science and engineering to build deploy and scale machine learning systems. This includes improving ML infrastructure designing reliable real-time data systems and ensuring models run efficiently and reliably in production.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Consult with data scientists on training machine learning models
- Support improvements and additions to the ML infrastructure including getting your hands dirty with data engineering and DevOps engineering
- Design systems to meet throughput and latency requirements
- Implement NFRs (Non-Functional Requirements) to ensure a high degree of system reliability
THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR
- Prior experience with productionising ML systems is a must.
- Prior experience training machine learning models is highly desirable.
- Advanced knowledge of Python and familiarity with SQL.
- Good working knowledge of Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- A solid understanding and hands-on experience with real-time and event-driven systems such as Kafka Kafkaconnect Pub/Sub.
- Solid experience with Kubernetes docker deployment types (canary blue-green etc.)
- Experience with setting up CI/CD systems using tools such as CircleCI drone Github actions ArgoCD.
- Working experience with Big Data technologies such as Spark Dataflow and Flink.
- Experience with system design - keeping performance and efficiency in mind whilst aware of trade-offs.
- Experience applying software engineering rigor to ML including CI/CD/CT unit-testing automation etc.
- Hands-on experience with some MLOps tools such as KubeFlow DVC MLFlow.
- Experience with cloud providers such as GCP AWS or Azure
- Prior experience or a strong interest in FinTech space
Please note that all appointments are subject to our background checking process which may include Credit Criminal and any other job inherent checks.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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