Data Science Engineer Lead

1 week ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Gig Engineer Full time

Gig Engineer is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to lead the development of cutting-edge machine learning models.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in machine learning, deep learning, and software engineering, along with experience in designing scalable AI solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and optimize machine learning models for real-world applications, ensuring high accuracy, scalability, and efficiency.
  • Build and maintain scalable ML pipelines using cloud platforms and containerization technologies.
  • Collaborate with data engineers to preprocess, clean, and transform large datasets for training and inference.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
  • Minimum 5+ years of experience in machine learning, deep learning, and AI model deployment in production environments.
  • Strong proficiency in Python, with experience in libraries like TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Pandas, and NumPy.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with NLP, Computer Vision, or Reinforcement Learning.
  • Hands-on experience with AutoML, hyperparameter tuning, and model interpretability.


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