Intermediate AI LLM Engineer – Sandton – R800k PA
e-Merge Recruitment
Job description
Ready to take your AI engineering career to the next level?
Join a specialist technology environment at the forefront of building and improving AI-driven conversational systems.
This role offers hands-on exposure to exciting technologies, including LLMs, voice agents, automated testing, AI coding tools, and modern software development practices.
It’s a fantastic opportunity for an Intermediate AI Engineer looking to sharpen their technical expertise, work with emerging AI technologies, and continue growing within a collaborative, forward-thinking team.
Must-Have Skills & Experience
- 4 to 6 years software engineering (or equivalent applied experience)
- Solid Python; comfortable with APIs, SQL, and modern git/CI workflows
- Hands-on LLM application work (prompting, tool use, agents — production preferred)
- Willingness to learn Azure Functions, messaging, blob storage, and SQL in a production environment
Strong Advantages
- Experience with Cursor, Claude, or similar AI coding assistants
- Azure Functions or similar serverless
- OpenAI SDKs / structured JSON responses
- Basic speech/audio exposure
- Strong testing and code quality habits
- Interest in conversational UX across voice and text
Responsibilities
- Implement prompt changes, tool handlers, and function/webhook logic for voice agents
- Build or improve automated QA workers and analysis jobs (queues, artifacts, scoring ingest)
- Write and maintain unit/contract tests and scenario-based eval cases
- Translate scorecard / conversation requirements (with Analyst/Tester) into schemas and fixtures
- Support post-call analytics tasks such as scoring result ingestion, data mapping, and output validation
- Diagnose and fix production issues with logging/observability support
- Support early email/WhatsApp bot flows under Senior/Lead direction
- Use AI coding tools (e.g. Cursor, Claude) to accelerate learning and delivery
Reference Number for this position is GZ61524 which is a Permanent position based in Sandton offering a salary of R800k per annum, negotiable based on experience and ability.
Contact Garth on garthz@e-merge.co.za or call 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.
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