AI Engineer (Intermediate II / Senior I) - Cape Town (Durbanville) - up to 1mil per annum

Responsibilities:

• Partner with business stakeholders to identify AI opportunities and translate business requirements into practical AI solutions.
• Design, develop, and deploy production-ready AI applications using Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot Studio, and related Microsoft technologies.
• Build and implement agentic and multi-agent AI systems using appropriate orchestration frameworks and design patterns.
• Develop Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions, prompt-engineered workflows, and conversational AI assistants integrated into business processes.
• Integrate AI solutions with enterprise data sources, REST APIs, Microsoft Teams, web applications, and other business systems.
• Optimize AI solutions for performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and user experience through prompt tuning, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure AI solutions comply with responsible AI principles, governance, security, privacy, and audit requirements.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field (Master's degree advantageous).
• Minimum 3 years' experience developing and deploying production AI solutions, preferably using Microsoft AI technologies.
• Proven experience building end-to-end agentic or multi-agent AI systems in enterprise environments.
• Strong knowledge of Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Power Automate, and related Microsoft AI platforms.
• Experience with AI orchestration frameworks such as Microsoft Agent Framework, LangChain, LangGraph, or similar technologies.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, REST APIs, machine learning libraries, and AI solution integration.
• Experience developing RAG solutions, prompt engineering, LLM fine-tuning, and AI cost optimization techniques.

The Reference Number for this position is NG61439 which is a Permanent, Hybrid role in Cape Town, offering a salary of up to R1mil per annum salary negotiable based on experience. E-mail Nokuthula on [email protected] or call her for a chat on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

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