AI Engineering - Master Specialist

Nedbank • Johannesburg, Gauteng • Posted July 19, 2026

Position Overview

Job Purpose

We are seeking a Senior AI engineering specialist with deep expertise in designing and scaling hyperscale cloud systems and advanced AI platforms. This role requires a strong foundation in distributed systems, machine learning, statistics, and big data ecosystems, combined with hands-on experience across modern AI frameworks and programming languages.

The successful candidate will play a critical role in architecting, deploying, and optimising AI systems powered by both small language models (SLMs) and large language models (LLMs), ensuring the right models and infrastructure are applied to each use case for optimal performance, scalability, and cos...