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Machine Learning Engineer

Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town Region💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-12 → 2026-09-24

Core

Design, build, deploy, and maintain machine learning and AI solutions in production environments, transforming data science models into scalable applications for document processing, information extraction, automation, forecasting, classification, and optimisation.

Role type

Senior IC machine learning engineer (MLOps)

Builds

Production-ready ML/AI systems, APIs, pipelines, and automated scoring solutions

Domain

Financial services, lending, credit risk, fraud, or regulated industry

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, SQL, REST API development, Git, automated testing, machine learning model development and optimisation, CI/CD practices

Preferred skills

MLOps tooling, Snowflake/Snowpark/dbt, containerisation, cloud deployments, XGBoost/LightGBM, OCR/document intelligence

Technologies

Python, SQL, Snowflake, Snowpark, dbt, XGBoost, LightGBM

Responsibilities

Develop intelligent systems for document processing and automation; Transform data science prototypes into scalable applications; Build and maintain APIs and pipelines; Implement CI/CD, testing, orchestration, and monitoring; Monitor model performance, data quality, and drift; Integrate ML solutions into business systems; Define success metrics and evaluate business impact.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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