Senior AI LLM Engineer - Sandton - R1.2m PA
- Location
- Sandton, Gauteng
- Contract
- Permanent
- Salary (as advertised)
- R1 200 000 per year
- Closing date
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In brief
Overview This is a summary of the Senior AI LLM Engineer role, based in Sandton, with a salary of R1.2m per annum, negotiable based on experience and ability. E-Merge, a specialist niche recruitment agency, is seeking candidates for an innovative technology environment. This company focuses on developing intelligent, AI-powered conversational solutions that are shaping the future of how people interact with technology. The role offers a hands-on opportunity to work across LLMs, voice agents, automated testing, AI coding tools, and modern software development practices, involving complex technical challenges, solution design contribution, and transforming ambitious AI concepts into scalable, production-ready solutions. What you will do Key responsibilities for this role include: * Building and hardening real-time voice agents: modular prompts, multi-assistant flows, tool-calling, webhooks, telephony/operational concerns. * Improving automated QA pipelines: VAD, diarization, language gating, transcription, alignment/attribution, LLM scorecard scoring. * Implementing structured LLM pipelines (schemas, batching, failure handling, score recalculation). * Owning features in Azure Functions / Kubernetes workers: queue consumers, artifact pipelines, SQL integrations. * Contributing to post-call intelligence features such as outcome scoring, summary generation, and structured data extraction. * Expanding and maintaining evaluation suites (scenarios, LLM-as-judge, CI regression). * Contributing to email/WhatsApp agent work with reuse of tools, outcomes, and observability. Requirements (from the original advert) The original advert lists the following as must-have skills and experience: * 5+ years in engineering; with 2+ years applied LLM / speech AI in production. * Strong proficiency in Python (including APIs, typing/validation, testing, and packaging). * Experience with OpenAI / Azure OpenAI (specifically chat, structured outputs, and batch patterns). * Familiarity with Azure messaging, storage, and SQL-backed services. * Proven ownership of ambiguous, multi-system features. Who should apply This opportunity is suited for a Senior AI Engineer who enjoys solving challenging problems, working with emerging technology, and seeks to have a meaningful impact on technical direction where their expertise can make a real difference. Deadline Not specified Reference Original posting: https://www.jobmail.co.za/jobs/it-computer/other-it-computer/sandton/senior-ai-llm-engineer-sandton-r1.2m-pa-id-7576836 Source: jobmail
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- Python
- SQL
- Azure
- Docker
- Kubernetes
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