Technology

Intermediate Ai Engineer

Salt South Africa ·All, south-africa·Full Time·Onsite
TechnologyFull TimeOnsite
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We are headhunting AI Engineers:

  • You’ll be taking AI all the way into the real world, from understanding the problem and experimenting with an approach, through to building, deploying, evaluating and improving systems that people actually use.

Think:

  • LLMs and agentic AI
  • RAG, retrieval and vector search
  • Agents that can use tools, APIs and enterprise data
  • Multi-step / multi-agent workflows
  • Context, memory and structured tool calling
  • LangChain, LangGraph, Google ADK, AutoGen or similar
  • MCP and modern agent-tool integrations
  • Testing, evaluation, tracing and guardrails
  • Strong software engineering and production deployment
  • Using tools like Claude Code, Cursor or Copilot as part of how you build

At a glance

Company

Salt South Africa

Location

All, south-africa

Employment

Full Time

Experience

Valid until

Not specified

Created

October 13, 2026

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