AI – Factory - ML Engineer
IT Empowerment Consulting
- R Undisclosed
- Contract Intermediate EE position
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Johannesburg
- Posted 17 Mar 2026 by IT Empowerment Consulting
- Expires in 29 days
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Job 2635415 - Ref PTA000062
About the position
AI – Factory - ML Engineer - Contractor
A locally hosted, enterprise-grade AI platform and ecosystem designed to accelerate how South African businesses adopt and scale artificial intelligence. It combines high-performance infrastructure, curated models, and services to help organisations build, integrate, and deploy AI solutions quickly and securely.
The platform is powered by NVIDIA AI technology and hosted in local AI-ready data centres, ensuring compliance with South African regulatory and data sovereignty requirements, a key differentiator for enterprises navigating global AI adoption.
Job Title: AI – Factory - ML Engineer
Seniority Level: Mid Career (4 - 6 yrs exp)
Type: Contractor
Location: JHB - Central
Report to: Lorraine
Sectors: Information Technology
Functions: Engineer - Systems
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Implement approved models into applications
- Fine-tuning within defined governance boundaries
- Build evaluation pipelines
- Implement observability and monitoring
- Manage model versioning in production
- Optimize performance and latency
Qualification Types: Degree
Skills Required:
Experience deploying ML systems to production, Strong Python and ML frameworks, Model evaluation and monitoring expertise, Understanding of MLOps practices, Familiarity with AI governance constraints, 3–5 years ML engineering; production deployment required.
Desired Skills:
- Experience deploying ML systems to production
- Strong Python and ML frameworks
- Understanding of MLOps practices
IT Empowerment Consulting
About the agency
IT Empowerment Consulting (part of the IT Empowerment Group of Companies) is an ICT and other Services Provider with over 30 years of experience. Our strength lies in providing innovative, client-centric solutions across the ICT Spectrum through specialized service offerings, including bespoke project delivery, resource augmentation and strategic consulting.
As a 75,5 % woman-owned, B-BBEE Level 2 Contributor, we are proudly South African and deeply committed to transformation and empowerment. We operate as a strategic partner with our clients, assuming full responsibility for the successful execution of all engagements and measuring our success by the impact we deliver.
Service Offerings:
1. Individual Add-on Capacity / Contracting
2. Permanent Placements
3. Background Screening and Verification Services
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