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Premium Ad IT/Computer - Other IT/Computer Johannesburg FULL TIME Job Summary A leading South African packaging manufacturer that specializes in producing corrugated packaging and Single Face Kraft (SFK) products is seeking a Lead AI Engineer who will be the technical owner of an internally built agentic system that currently runs the company's planning cycle end-to-end. Responsibilities: * Production Governance: Own existing agentic MRP/planning systems; establish source control, managed environments, clear documentation, and formal deployment pipelines. * Risk & Fallback Management: Eliminate single points of failure (technical and operational). Maintain tested rollbacks, kill-switches, and documented manual fallback plans. * Bounded Autonomy & Safety: Program hard limits on agent scope/financial values, enforce human-in-the-loop approval gates for irreversible actions, and ensure loud failures over silent errors. * Eval Harnesses: Build and run historical evaluation test suites against all prompt, code, or model updates prior to deployment. * Staged Releases: Enforce a strict rollout pathway (Shadow Running $\rightarrow$ Pilot $\rightarrow$ Canary $\rightarrow$ Earned Autonomy). * Observability & Auditing: Implement complete telemetry (inputs, reasoning logs, actions) and queryable audit trails that satisfy financial and governance standards. * Process Discovery: Engage directly with factory floor and business operations to understand actual workflows before designing automation. * End-to-End Delivery: Scope, architect, and build scalable systems across planning, logistics, procurement, and finance—recommending "go/no-go" based on pilot metrics. * Commercial Controls: Ensure financial actions adhere to CFO/external audit requirements (segregation of duties, approval limits). * Tooling & AI-Assisted Dev: Leverage modern AI dev tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) as primary workflows with rigorous code review and testing standards. * Vendor & Cost Management: Direct model selection, transaction cost optimization, data residency, and vendor lock-in prevention. * Enablement & Reporting: Provide runbooks and training for business users; report directly to executive leadership on progress, risk, and technical debt. Minimum Requirements: * Production Release Discipline: Proven track record of owning commercial software running in live production (including staging, canary rollouts, incident handling, and rollbacks)…
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