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DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

Senior Python AI Engineer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment

DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

  • R1.00 - R2.00 per hour
  • Contract Executive position
  • Pretoria
  • Posted 02 Nov 2026 by DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment
  • Expires in 30 days
  • Job 2646811 - Ref 878000028032014
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About the position

Ready to build the future of AI? Let's talk!


Are you passionate about Artificial Intelligence, obsessed with innovative technology and excited by the idea of turning complex challenges into smart, scalable solutions?


We're looking for an Expert AI Engineer / Full Stack Developer who knows how to take AI beyond experimentation and turn innovative ideas into real-world, production-ready solutions.


This isn't your typical development role! You'll be working at the forefront of Generative AI, LLMs, intelligent agents and enterprise data engineering, helping build reusable AI platforms and tools that empower development teams to work smarter, faster and more efficiently.


If Python is your playground, AI is your passion and building solutions that make a real impact is what gets you excited, this opportunity is for you!




Requirements

  • AI Engineering.
  • Expert knowledge of LLMs and Generative AI application engineering.
  • Hands-on experience building production-grade LLM applications and AI agents.
  • Strong understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
  • Prompt and context engineering.
  • Agent/tool integration and orchestration.
  • Structured outputs and tool calling.
  • Model and application evaluation.
  • AI guardrails and human approval mechanisms.
  • AI observability, reliability and production monitoring.
  • Responsible and secure AI engineering.
  • The source role already identifies agents, RAG, prompt/context engineering, tool integration, evaluation, guardrails and human approval gates as core AI engineering capabilities.
  • AI Native Engineering
  • Strong practical capability using AI throughout the software engineering lifecycle.
  • Specification-driven development.
  • AI-assisted implementation and refactoring.
  • AI-assisted test generation and quality engineering.
  • AI-supported code review and documentation.
  • Ability to build reusable AI-enabled developer tooling and workflows.
  • Strong understanding that AI-generated outputs still require accountable engineering review.
  • The reference specification explicitly expects responsible AI-assisted development across specification, coding, review, testing, documentation and operations while retaining accountability for correctness and security.
  • Software & Platform Engineering.
  • Expert Python engineering.
  • Strong API and microservice engineering.
  • REST-based service integration.
  • Event-driven and asynchronous architecture.
  • Containers and Kubernetes.
  • CI/CD and automated testing.
  • Infrastructure as Code.
  • Secure software development.
  • Production observability and operational readiness.
  • Strong architecture and systems-thinking capability.
  • Python/Java, APIs, microservices, AWS/cloud-native engineering, Docker/Kubernetes/Terraform, automated testing, CI/CD and production readiness are all represented in the reference Expert specification.
  • Snowflake & Data Engineering.
  • Strong Snowflake engineering and implementation capability.
  • Design and implementation of data models suitable for AI and application consumption.
  • Advanced SQL.
  • Data ingestion and transformation.
  • ETL/ELT engineering.
  • Metadata, lineage and data quality.
  • Secure data access patterns.
  • Integration between Snowflake, AI services, APIs and enterprise applications.
  • Performance and cost-conscious data engineering.


Desired Skills:

  • AI Engineering
  • LLMs
  • Generative AI
  • Python
  • Software & Platform Engineering

Desired Qualification Level:

  • Degree

About The Employer:


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DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

About the agency

Dedicated to the recruitment of IT professionals Sabenza iT is a South African registered business focusing on Finance, Engineering, SAP and general iT recruitment. We have over 18 years' experience in recruiting in South Africa, Australia, Europe, South America and Asia and have worked with a number of large companies offering the best service. We at Sabenza iT understands the changing market and we mold our services around each of our client's needs to offer a personal service. Sabenza iT has forged strong relationships with both Clients and Consultants by ensuring both parties get the most out of every placement. Our Head Office is based in South Africa and we have a satellite office in the UK so that we can keep in contact with expats who may consider returning to South Africa and so that we can offer our services globally for Consultants looking to go to South Africa and Consultants who are looking for opportunities abroad. We at Sabenza recognize the difference it makes to maintain good client relationships and we are keeping our client base niche and manageable in order to give the best service possible. We have gained a good reputation in the market place and have built a very large network and database of consultants that we draw from for each role. We are able to send applications within 24 hours of receiving a role profile or spec. We use one of the best Database software tools available to keep our database up to date and very fast to search. Sabenza iT does not only use job-sites, we headhunt and we use our network to find our clients the right Candidates. We have a strong Facebook presence and we have over 12,000 LinkedIn connections. For further information, please visit our website www.sabenzait.co.za or call me at any time on Tel: 0330040131.

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