Python Developer - AI

Location:
Cape Town

Working Practices:
Hybrid | Mondays and Thursday in office and remaining days remote

Contract Type:
Permanent

Working Hours: 07H00 - 15H30 SAST

Job Summary:

The AI Developer is responsible for supporting the development, maintenance, scaling, and improvement of AI powered applications. This role involves close collaboration with senior engineers to support the deployment of AI solutions on AWS and Azure, manage API integrations, and assist in the development of new AI Proof of Concepts. The AI Developer will also aid in the documentation of processes and configurations, ensuring efficient operations within our AI platform environment.

The ideal candidate will bring strong Python software development experience combined with recent exposure to AI technologies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate within a wider cross region development team of engineers
• Maintenance and optimisation of core systems and python codebases
• Design, build, and deploy AI enabling workloads and bespoke AI applications within the OES delivery portfolio
• Develop APIs and microservices to integrate AI into applications.
• Contribute to AI research and development within OES
• Develop proof of concepts or prototypes to assist with research
• Ensure technical implementation deliverables meet best industry standards
• Maintain and contribute to documentation of AI engineering space
• Contribute to the evolution and adoption of AI engineering technology within OES
• Assist with the setup, deploy and maintenance of AI application and services for OES partners domestically and internationally

What does success look like?

• Successful and timely delivery of AI applications and solutions for OES and our partners to achieve business and financial goals
• Focus on student experience when designing and implementing solutions
• Supporting a long‑term perspective on the IT solution to ensure it is scalable
• Security first mindset with solution design and implementation
• Developing strong and trusting relationships with the geographically distributed team and management structure of the OES group
• Contributing to the evolution of the AI engineering capability and solutions within OES and assisting on achieving its KPIs

Qualifications:

• 1 year’s experience working with Large Language Models
• 3 year’s demonstrable experience in Python programming.
• Effective problem‑solving abilities and meticulous attention to detail.
• Practical experience with software development best practices such as Git source control, secure coding practices and unit testing.
• Experience with Python libraries such as boto3, numpy and similar core libraries as well as frameworks such as Flask
• AI concepts such as RAG, prompt engineering and agents
• Developing and consuming APIs with Python
• Experience with Large Language Models (Such as GPT-4, Claude, llama)
• Experience with Python testing frameworks

Nice to Have:

• Practical experience with FAISS(Facebook AI Similarity Search) is highly desirable
• Practical experience with AWS services such as Bedrock, Lambda, Dynamo
  
  DB, SQS, and SNS
• Understanding of Dev Ops principles and CI/CD automation tools such as Jenkins or Code Deploy.
• Understanding of front‑end technologies.

About OES

OES is a vibrant and values‑led organisation, and we are passionate about enhancing lives through education. We work with university partners, training institutes, and professional bodies worldwide, to develop and enable immersive and engaging learning experiences. We empower our teams to be student‑focused, innovative, and embrace change with a growth mindset to ensure we achieve our vision of being the world’s most impactful enabler of education.

We encourage our people to grow and develop through teamwork and a diverse range of projects, programs and challenging work. We trust our people to deliver, so when you work with OES, you will join a team who are empowered to impact every day.

Company Culture & Values

We are a people‑focused organization with a culture built around collaboration, connection, and working together toward one common goal. Our vibrant, values‑led culture is grounded in four core principles that guide everything we do:

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