Senior Python AI Engineer

About the role

Sabenza IT & Recruitment is hiring a Senior Python AI Engineer in Pretoria. The role sits at the forefront of Generative AI, LLMs, intelligent agents and enterprise data engineering, building reusable AI platforms and tools that help development teams work smarter and faster. It is described as a full-time position.

Required profile

• Expert knowledge of LLMs and Generative AI application engineering, with hands-on experience building production-grade LLM applications and AI agents.
• Strong understanding of RAG, prompt and context engineering, agent and tool integration, model evaluation, AI guardrails and human approval mechanisms, and AI observability and monitoring.
• Practical use of AI throughout the software engineering lifecycle: specification-driven development, AI-assisted implementation, testing, code review and documentation, and reusable AI-enabled developer tooling.
• Expert Python engineering, strong API and microservice engineering, event-driven and asynchronous architectures, containers and Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure as code and secure software development.
• Strong Snowflake engineering, data modelling, advanced SQL, ETL/ELT, metadata, lineage and data quality, with secure data access patterns.