Sabenza IT & Recruitment

Senior Python AI Engineer

Sabenza IT & Recruitment City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa

IT Services and IT Consulting · 11-50 employees

5 d ago
python Principal (10+ yrs) Full-time South Africa
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About the role

You will build production-ready AI platforms and tools, including Generative AI and LLM applications, to empower development teams. Additionally, you will design and implement scalable data models and infrastructure to support enterprise-level AI solutions.

What they look for

Python Artificial Intelligence Generative AI LLMs RAG Data Engineering Snowflake Kubernetes Docker Terraform API Development Microservices CI/CD SQL Cloud-native Engineering Software Architecture

Requirements

The role requires expert-level proficiency in Python, LLMs, RAG, and Snowflake data engineering. Candidates must have over 10 years of experience and a strong background in platform engineering, CI/CD, and cloud-native architectures.

Full description

Ready to build the future of AI? Let's talk!

Are you passionate about Artificial Intelligence, obsessed with innovative technology and excited by the idea of turning complex challenges into smart, scalable solutions?

We're looking for an Expert AI Engineer / Full Stack Developer who knows how to take AI beyond experimentation and turn innovative ideas into real-world, production-ready solutions.

This isn't your typical development role! You'll be working at the forefront of Generative AI, LLMs, intelligent agents and enterprise data engineering, helping build reusable AI platforms and tools that empower development teams to work smarter, faster and more efficiently.

If Python is your playground, AI is your passion and building solutions that make a real impact is what gets you excited, this opportunity is for you!

Requirements

  • AI Engineering.
  • 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.
  • The source role already identifies agents, RAG, prompt/context engineering, tool integration, evaluation, guardrails and human approval gates as core AI engineering capabilities.
  • AI Native Engineering
  • Strong practical capability using AI throughout the software engineering lifecycle.
  • Specification-driven development.
  • AI-assisted implementation and refactoring.
  • AI-assisted test generation and quality engineering.
  • AI-supported code review and documentation.
  • Ability to build reusable AI-enabled developer tooling and workflows.
  • Strong understanding that AI-generated outputs still require accountable engineering review.
  • The reference specification explicitly expects responsible AI-assisted development across specification, coding, review, testing, documentation and operations while retaining accountability for correctness and security.
  • Software & Platform Engineering.
  • Expert Python engineering.
  • Strong API and microservice engineering.
  • REST-based service integration.
  • Event-driven and asynchronous architecture.
  • Containers and Kubernetes.
  • CI/CD and automated testing.
  • Infrastructure as Code.
  • Secure software development.
  • Production observability and operational readiness.
  • Strong architecture and systems-thinking capability.
  • Python/Java, APIs, microservices, AWS/cloud-native engineering, Docker/Kubernetes/Terraform, automated testing, CI/CD and production readiness are all represented in the reference Expert specification.
  • Snowflake & Data Engineering.
  • Strong Snowflake engineering and implementation capability.
  • Design and implementation of data models suitable for AI and application consumption.
  • Advanced SQL.
  • Data ingestion and transformation.
  • ETL/ELT engineering.
  • Metadata, lineage and data quality.
  • Secure data access patterns.
  • Integration between Snowflake, AI services, APIs and enterprise applications.
  • Performance and cost-conscious data engineering.

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