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Junior AI Engineer

Junior AI Engineer

Network Recruitment • Johannesburg, South Africa
5 hours ago
Job description

Key Responsibilities:

  • Work alongside business departments (Sales, HR, Finance, Technical Support, Production, Marketing) to observe, document and map processes.
  • Assist in identifying and prioritising opportunities where AI and automation can reduce manual effort, cycle time or error rates.
  • Build, test and deploy automation agents and workflows on the internal AI platform.
  • Contribute to the development and maintenance of platform components including model gateway, agent run times, retrieval services, tool integrations and user access surfaces.
  • Implement and maintain integrations between the AI platform and business systems (ERP, CRM, ticketing, knowledge sources).
  • Monitor platform usage, cost and performance; resolve routine issues and escalate incidents as required.
  • Prepare and maintain evaluation and regression test sets for deployed automations.
  • Apply data classification, access control, privacy and audit requirements to all automation solutions.
  • Document processes, solutions and design decisions for knowledge retention.
  • Provide first-line support and guidance to departmental users of deployed automations.
  • Participate in code reviews, design discussions and knowledge-sharing sessions.
  • Stay updated on developments in AI models, tooling and automation practices.
  • Communicate progress, risks and blockers clearly to managers and stakeholders.
  • Job Experience and Skills Required:
  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Electronic Engineering or related field
  • 02 years experience in software development, automation, data engineering or related discipline (academic, internship or project work considered)
  • Practical exposure to Python and at least one AI/LLM framework or API
  • Working knowledge of version control, relational databases and web APIs


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