Senior AI Engineer

3 days ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Boardroom Appointments Full time R2 000 000 - R2 500 000 per year


Senior AI Engineer - 6 Month ContractKey Responsibilities
  • Build and deploy AI/ML models for use cases such as content recommendation, sentiment analysis, auto-tagging, voice-to-text transcription, and audience segmentation.
  • Design intelligent tools to assist content creators, editors, and marketing teams with automation, prediction, and optimization.
  • Develop NLP and computer vision pipelines to analyze video, audio, text, and metadata at scale.
  • Collaborate with product managers, UX designers, and media technologists to integrate AI into digital platforms, CMS, and distribution channels.
  • Mentor junior engineers and data scientists, providing architectural guidance and peer reviews.
  • Stay up to date with the latest in generative AI, LLMs, and multimodal learning to push innovation in how media is produced and consumed.
Required Skills & Experience
  • Bachelor's or Masters degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, or related field (PhD a plus).
  • 5+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering, preferably in a digital media, entertainment, or streaming environment.
  • Proven expertise in Python and AI frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Hugging Face, or spaCy.
  • Deep understanding of natural language processing (NLP), including entity recognition, summarization, and topic modeling.
  • Experience working with video, audio, and image data using tools like OpenCV, ffmpeg, and media-specific ML libraries.
  • Familiarity with content management systems, media workflows, and publishing platforms.
  • Hands-on experience deploying AI solutions to production in cloud environments (AWS, etc.).

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