Afrizan People Intelligence (PTY) LTD Machine Learning Engineer

The Machine Learning Engineer is primarily responsible for building end-to-end machine learning models from ideation to deployment and scalability.

Job Responsibilities:

• Combine several different machine learning algorithms with domain knowledge to meet business requirements
• Comprehensively create and maintain documentation of the software and system implementation, according to documentation standards.
• Implement above architectures with deep learning frameworks
• Train models on large-scale data and fine-tune hyper-parameters.
• Research and implement appropriate machine learning algorithms and tools by selecting the correct libraries, programming languages and frameworks for each task.
• Understand and use computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, computability, complexity, and computer architecture.
• Keep abreast of developments in the field and integrate the latest data technologies into existing requirements.
• Follow best practices and standards in machine learning.
• Peer review machine learning models and advise on shortfalls and improvement.
• Present complex machine learning concepts and results to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Minimum Experience Level:

6-8 years of relevant senior level experience in Data Science / Advanced Analytics

Preferred Qualification:

Related Master’s Degree

Essential Qualification:

BSc in Computer Science, Engineering, Econometrics, Mathematical Statistics, Actuary Science

Advantageous skills experience:

• Deep knowledge of machine learning, statistics, optimization or related fields
• Experience working with large data sets, simulation/optimization and distributed computing tools
• Python
• SQL
• Spark
• Flask
• SQL Server, Netezza, Redis, MongoDB etc

All positions will be filled in accordance with our client’s Employment Equity plan. We also encourage people with disabilities to apply.