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Machine Learning Engineer

Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town Region💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-22 → 2026-09-24

Core

Transform machine learning models and AI solutions into reliable, scalable production systems to improve decision-making and automate operational processes.

Role type

Senior Machine Learning Engineer (MLOps & Production Deployment)

Builds

Production-ready ML services, APIs, document intelligence systems, and real-time decisioning platforms.

Domain

Financial services (lending, credit risk, collections, fraud)

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python development, production ML deployment, SQL, data engineering, CI/CD, containerisation, model monitoring, MLOps tooling, document processing/OCR, REST API development, Git, automated testing, cloud deployments, model evaluation and optimisation, event-driven architectures.

Preferred skills

Experience in financial services, Snowflake/Snowpark/dbt, Streamlit, champion-challenger testing, model explainability.

Technologies

Python, SQL, Snowflake, Snowpark, dbt, Git, Streamlit, MLOps platforms, OCR technologies, cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

Develop, deploy, and maintain ML/AI solutions in production; design and enhance document intelligence systems; build classification, forecasting, and optimisation solutions; transform prototypes into scalable applications; implement CI/CD and automated testing; integrate ML into customer journeys; monitor model performance and data quality; investigate production issues; define success metrics and evaluate business impact.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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