# AI Engineer (Entry)

Reference: JHB001633-Jaime-1 ESSENTIAL SKILLS: C# / .NET: Strong working knowledge of modern C# and .NET, backend development, REST APIs, asynchronous programming, automated testing and software engineering best practices. AI Agents & LLMs: Practical experience developing AI-enabled applications and integrating LLM services, including prompting, tool/function calling, structured outputs and conversation/context management. Agent Frameworks: Experience with Microsoft Agent Framework, Semantic Kernel or similar AI/agent frameworks, with the ability to develop configurable agent-based solutions. MCP & A2A: Understanding of Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) concepts, with experience implementing or integrating modern agent/tool communication being highly beneficial. Azure & Software Delivery: Experience with Microsoft Azure, Docker and Kubernetes/AKS, together with Git, CI/CD, monitoring and production support practices. ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS: Experience with multi-agent solutions, agent orchestration and human-in-the-loop workflows. Experience working with Azure OpenAI or other enterprise LLM services and integrating models into backend applications. Unders

- **Id**: 3949551
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/imizizi-ai-engineer-entry>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Pretoria, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-29T08:01:11Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-10-29T08:01:11Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 11
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3332
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4496229
- **Name**: Imizizi
- **Domain**: imizizi.co.za
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/imizizi>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **.NET** — Optional: no
- **A2A** — Optional: no
- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Azure AKS** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **Human-in-the-Loop** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Semantic Kernel** — Optional: no
- **Structured Outputs** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 11

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T00:59:45Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 75
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.831
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 10
- **Expected fill days**: 25
- **Reasons**: seen:10, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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