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Lead Strategic AI Vision & PropTech Innovation

Earn R100,000/month | Hybrid or Remote | SA Citizens

Pioneer future-ready AI for the African real estate sector. As a Specialist AI Developer (3-5yrs exp), you'll shape PropTech's autonomous, intelligent agent roadmap—adding value across property management, leasing, sustainability, and client experience.

The role blends advanced AI solution development (C#, MS SQL), public thought leadership, and partnerships to keep our platforms at the innovation frontier.

Your tech vision will directly drive industry-leading PropTech solutions, collaborating with top innovators, AI labs, and leading edge partners.

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Preffered Requirements: Associate or Bachelor’s degree in Artificial Intelligence or related field. At least 3-5 years of experience in designing and developing AI software. Strong knowledge of AI algorithms, techniques and technologies. Proficiency in coding languages such as Python, C++, Java, etc. Required specialist soft skills: Excellent problem solving and analytical skills. Strong communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills. Ability to work independently and in a team environment. Highly organized and detail oriented. Creative and innovative mindset. Core Competencies: Advise stakeholders and executives on a broad range of technology, strategy, and policy issues associated with AI Work on functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, and defining support procedures, in collaboration with an advanced engineering team and executive leadership Articulate and document the solutions architecture and lessons learned for each exploration and accelerated incubation Manage a team in conducting assessments of the AI and automation market and competitor landscape Serve as liaison between stakeholders and project teams, delivering feedback and enabling team members to make necessary changes in product performance or presentation (SEND CV IN PDF FORMAT)

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POSITION INFO:

Are you a forward-thinking AI professional passionate about shaping intelligent solutions with real-world impact? Our client is looking for an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineer to join their high-impact team, dedicated to developing and deploying cutting-edge AI applications across complex industries such as energy, logistics, and finance.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineer

Recruiter:

WatersEdge Solutions

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Date posted:

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

SUMMARY:

POSITION INFO:

Are you a forward-thinking AI professional passionate about shaping intelligent solutions with real-world impact? Our client is looking for an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineer to join their high-impact team, dedicated to developing and deploying cutting-edge AI applications across complex industries such as energy, logistics, and finance.

About The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled AI Engineer to contribute to both hands-on development and strategic innovation. You’ll play a key role in research-driven implementation, solution design, and full lifecycle AI model deployment. Reporting into senior technical leadership, you'll help shape the future of the organisation’s AI capability.

Key Responsibilities

• AI Model Development: Design, develop, and deploy machine learning and generative AI models, with a focus on semi-supervised learning and open-set recognition.
• Cross-Functional Integration: Collaborate with business units to ensure AI solutions align with strategic objectives.
• Research & Prototyping: Lead and contribute to real-time AI application research and prototyping in complex domains.
• Lifecycle Ownership: Oversee AI development from data ingestion through to deployment, monitoring, and performance optimisation.
• Architecture & Strategy: Contribute to high-level platform architecture and AI strategy.
• Knowledge Sharing: Document processes, share insights, and contribute to internal technical education.
• Ethical AI Compliance: Ensure solutions adhere to responsible AI standards and legal frameworks.
  
  

• PhD, Master’s, or Honours degree in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Science, or a related field
• 3+ years of hands-on experience developing and deploying AI/ML solutions
• Proficiency in Python, including TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Scikit-learn
• Strong knowledge of generative AI, machine learning, and data science
• Experience in deploying AI solutions on cloud platforms such as AWS or Google Cloud
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills
  
  

• Experience in smart grid systems, automation, or data-intensive domains
• Background in AI research or academic publishing
• Contributions to open-source AI projects or community initiatives
• Familiarity with AI governance and compliance
  
  

• Competitive market salary
• Growth opportunities in a dynamic and innovation-driven environment
• Collaborative culture with support for technical development and research
• Opportunity to make meaningful impact in industries undergoing digital transformation
  
  

• Innovation-First Mindset – Always looking to build smarter, faster, and better.
• Collaborative Culture – Strong focus on teamwork and cross-functional partnerships.
• Integrity in AI – Committed to ethical, responsible use of emerging technologies.
• Real-World Impact – Dedicated to solving real problems with scalable AI solutions.
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries Advertising Services

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About the team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case.

This permanent role offers the opportunity to develop and maintain internal AI tools for our legal content team. This role is ideal for someone passionate about problem-solving, operational efficiency, and driving automation and AI development through code. You’ll work closely with AI developers, internal lawyers, paralegals, commissioning editors and product leaders to build innovative AI-powered solutions that deliver tangible internal business impact for our teams.

• Working with cross-functional legal content teams to identify pain points and propose intelligent, scalable solutions.
• Rapidly prototype, test, and iterate solutions in collaboration with end users and internal stakeholders.
• Participating in automating build, testing, and deployment processes across development, staging of AI and automation solutions.
• Contributing to operational improvements by automating repetitive manual tasks and proactively managing recurring issues.
• Applying a creative and analytical thinking to evaluate problems and communicate technical solutions effectively.
• Operating within an agile development environment, contributing to sprints, standups, and reviews.

• Be proficient in at least one of the following programming languages: Python, Java, C#, React, Typescript and be familiar with LLM integration, including APIs
• Have experience in prompt engineering, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), or vector databases
• Understand software deployment pipelines and CI/CD tools.
• Be comfortable debugging and resolving moderately complex AI bugs.
• Have prior experience in a Software Engineering role or AI developer role within an agile environment.
• Have strong interest in emerging trends in AI, automation, and software development.
• Demonstrate the ability to explain complex technical problems to non-technical audiences.
• Show enthusiasm for learning, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Medical Aid
• Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover)
• Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy
• Study Leave

LexisNexis Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis and Nexis services.

We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form or please contact .

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About the team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case.

This permanent role offers the opportunity to develop and maintain internal AI tools for our legal content team. This role is ideal for someone passionate about problem-solving, operational efficiency, and driving automation and AI development through code. You’ll work closely with AI developers, internal lawyers, paralegals, commissioning editors and product leaders to build innovative AI-powered solutions that deliver tangible internal business impact for our teams.

• Working with cross-functional legal content teams to identify pain points and propose intelligent, scalable solutions.
• Rapidly prototype, test, and iterate solutions in collaboration with end users and internal stakeholders.
• Participating in automating build, testing, and deployment processes across development, staging of AI and automation solutions.
• Contributing to operational improvements by automating repetitive manual tasks and proactively managing recurring issues.
• Applying a creative and analytical thinking to evaluate problems and communicate technical solutions effectively.
• Operating within an agile development environment, contributing to sprints, standups, and reviews.

• Be proficient in at least one of the following programming languages: Python, Java, C#, React, Typescript and be familiar with LLM integration, including APIs
• Have experience in prompt engineering, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), or vector databases
• Understand software deployment pipelines and CI/CD tools.
• Be comfortable debugging and resolving moderately complex AI bugs.
• Have prior experience in a Software Engineering role or AI developer role within an agile environment.
• Have strong interest in emerging trends in AI, automation, and software development.
• Demonstrate the ability to explain complex technical problems to non-technical audiences.
• Show enthusiasm for learning, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Medical Aid
• Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover)
• Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy
• Study Leave

LexisNexis Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis and Nexis services.

We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form or please contact .

Criminals may pose as recruiters asking for money or personal information. We never request money or banking details from job applicants. Learn more about spotting and avoiding scams here.

Please read our Candidate Privacy Policy.

We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Senior Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Engineer

To work with business stakeholders to identify and deliver on new AI initiatives. To apply deep domain expertise to shape/influence the AI-thinking in the organisation through thought leadership; enabling the successful adoption and acceleration of AI and ML across Standard Bank Group (SBG), ensuring the needs of stakeholders are correctly understood and addressed.

Business Segment: Group Functions

Location: ZA, GP, Johannesburg, Baker Street 30

• Post Graduate Degree in Information Technology
• 5 - 7 Years' experience in the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning area

Lead, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Engineer

Job Overview

Business Segment: Group Functions

Location: ZA, GP, Johannesburg, Baker Street 30

To shape the Standard Bank Group (SBG) artificial intelligence (AI) strategy and drive the creation of AI and machine learning (ML) solutions and projects; prioritising the delivery of new AI initiatives. To apply deep domain expertise in driving the AI strategy to enable SBG to be a business and thought leader in its desired markets.

Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Information Technology
• 8 - 10 Years' experience in the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning area