AI Engineer – LLMs, Agentic AI

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in South Africa.

📋 Description

• Transform business challenges and concepts into fully operational AI-driven solutions.

• Design, construct, and implement AI applications, internal tools, AI agents, and intelligent business systems.

• Develop agentic systems capable of reasoning, utilizing tools, accessing business data, and executing multi-step tasks.

• Leverage contemporary AI development and coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar to swiftly create and refine solutions.

• Assess AI models, tools, frameworks, and platforms to select the most suitable technology for each specific use case.

• Create custom applications and integrations utilizing LLMs, APIs, and traditional software development practices.

• Collaborate with agentic AI frameworks and technologies like LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, MCP, or comparable systems.

• Integrate AI systems with CRMs, databases, messaging platforms, document-generation tools, and other internal business systems.

• Develop workflow automations using tools such as n8n when applicable.

• Deploy, test, monitor, debug, and continuously enhance AI solutions following their launch.

• Take into account security, reliability, scalability, AI usage costs, and ROI during the solution design process.

• Engage directly with leadership and business stakeholders to identify issues, propose technical solutions, and independently execute builds.

• Stay informed about emerging AI technologies and investigate tools that deliver practical business value.

⛳️ Requirements

• Availability to work Monday–Friday, 14:30–23:00 South African time, subject to daylight savings adjustments.

• Willingness to work on South African public holidays, with compensation provided in line with the BCEA.

• Must reside in South Africa.

• Have a fixed fiber line with at least 25 Mbps upload and download speeds, along with wired Ethernet capability.

• Ensure reliable backup power for load shedding or power outages.

• 3–5+ years of professional software engineering, application development, or closely related technical experience.

• Hands-on experience in independently building and deploying AI-powered applications or systems beyond conventional workflow automation.

• Proven experience in constructing AI agents or agentic systems using tools, APIs, business data, or external systems for multi-step tasks.

• Familiarity with modern AI development/coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar.

• Experience with LLMs such as Claude, OpenAI/GPT, Gemini, or similar technologies.

• Knowledge of agentic frameworks or technologies such as LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, and MCP, or equivalent.

• Strong software development skills in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript/Node.js.

• Extensive experience in building and integrating REST APIs and third-party systems.

• Proficient with Docker, Git/GitHub, and modern application deployment methodologies.

• Ability to analyze business problems, determine technical strategies, and guide solutions from concept to deployment.

• Strong debugging and analytical skills for troubleshooting non-deterministic AI systems.

• Excellent communication skills to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Genuine enthusiasm for emerging AI technologies, with evidence of experimentation and development of new AI tools.

• Advantageous: experience with RAG solutions, MCP and tool/function calling, full-stack AI applications, AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform, human-in-the-loop approval processes, LLM evaluation, and independently managing technical solutions.

🏝️ Benefits

• Compensation for working on South African public holidays according to the BCEA.

• Fully remote work arrangement.