Senior Software Developer Artificial Intelligence (AI) - South Africa
About the job: The organisation has a vacancy for Senior Software Developer: Artificial Intelligence in the Emerging Digital Technologies for fourth Industrial Revolution (EDT4IR) Research Centre within the Next Generation Enterprises and Institutions Cluster. Key responsibilities: Develop innovative solutions in AI and remain well-versed in new technologies in the evolving AI space; Design, develop and implement AI systems architecture and solutions Supervise/mentor junior staff in the area(s) of expertise; Generate and contribute towards science engineering and technology (SET) activity outputs e.g., reports, guidelines, system requirements, peer-reviewed publications, and technology and software packages; Understand and interpret client requirements by contributing to user requirement analysis and/or well-articulated proposals; Remain current in field of expertise with respect to new approaches in tools, methods or technologies; Participate in external task teams or committees in relevant domains; Qualifications, skills and experience: A Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering, electrical/electronic engineering, information technology or related field with at least five years’ experience in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning and software development in Artificial Intelligence Technologies; An Honours or Master’s degree will be advantageous; Experience in the following: Applied machine-learning with regression, classification, etc. models for supervised learning; Natural language processing and understanding, Large language models; Building multimodal models; Unstructured data; Big-data unsupervised learning; Data platform engineering; Demonstrated experience in bringing theoretical machine-learning approaches illustrated in academia research papers to actual implementations, i.e. implemented and deployed into largen-scale production system certain advanced ML and applied ML algorithms; Cloud-based platforms: AWS, IBM Cloud, Azure; Proficiency and experience building AI models with a deep learning framework such as TensorFlow, Keras or Theano; Ability to select hardware to run an ML model with the required latency; Exposure to Project Management; Understanding of transforming/implementing software/algorithms for use in real-life systems would be advantageous; Knowledge of programming in modern object orientated languages, with Open-Source development tools and platforms; Ability to demonstrate Object-orientated software engineering skills; Strong quantitative skills (mathematics/statistics/computer science); Demonstrated ability to supervise/mentor/develop junior staff; Demonstrated skills in: analytical thinking, flexibility and adaptability, investigative orientation, planning and organising, problem solving, verbal and written communication, teamwork, self-management (planning, prioritising and time management – includes the ability to work independently), systems level thinking, multi-disciplinary knowledge. All international qualifications require an evaluation report / certificate issued by the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA).
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