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AI Engineer

Posted Aug 11, 2025 (440 days ago) · Last updated Oct 25 · Open 440 days, longer than the usual 27 for this role

Key facts

AI Engineer at Vaimo in Pretoria; requires 1+ year of model fine-tuning and deployment experience.

How this salary compares

Estimated €5,250 - €6,2503% above AI Engineer roles
Monthly salary comparison for AI Engineer
MarketLower bound (25th percentile)MedianUpper bound (75th percentile)
AI Engineer roles€4,000 per month€5,750 per month€7,667 per month
This offer€5,250 per month€5,750 per month€6,250 per month

Based on 12 job ads that state the pay. · Data and reuse

Estimated from 12 comparable listings

Where and how
Pretoria, ZAOnsiteJunior
Languages required
English
Experience
1 year experience

Original job ad

As published by VAIMO Finland Oy

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About the Role We’re looking for a skilled AI Engineer to help us fine-tune, deploy, and maintain private AI models tailored to our business needs. You’ll be working with leading foundation models and custom datasets to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing AI solutions—without reinventing the wheel. What You’ll Do 🧠 Model Fine-Tuning & Adaptation Fine-tune pre-trained private AI models (e.g. LLMs, vision models) for specific business use cases. Host and manage local LLMs and app hosting Work with proprietary or internal datasets to adapt models for high relevance and accuracy. Evaluate model performance and improve outputs through prompt engineering or targeted retraining. 🧹 Data Preparation Collect, clean, and prepare datasets for training, tuning, and evaluation. Collaborate with data teams to ensure high-quality inputs and labeling consistency. ⚙️ Deployment & Operations Deploy models in secure, scalable production environments using Docker, Kubernetes, Linux and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure). Monitor model performance, reliability, and drift; implement updates and improvements as needed. 🛠️ Maintenance & Optimisation Maintain and update deployed models to ensure continued alignment with business goals. Optimize model latency, cost, and accuracy based on real-world usage data. 🤝 Collaboration & Support Work with product and engineering teams to integrate models into applications. Support internal teams with prompt design, model usage, and troubleshooting. ⚖️ Responsible AI Practices Apply principles of ethical AI development, including privacy, security, and bias mitigation. Ensure compliance with internal and external AI governance policies. What You’ll Need 1+ years’ experience in AI/ML/GI engineering, with a focus on model fine-tuning and deployment. Strong experience with PHP, Node, React & Python and libraries like Transformers, LangChain, or Hugging Face. Familiarity with model evaluation techniques and metrics. Experience deploying AI models in production using tools like Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud services (AWS, GCP, or Azure). Solid understanding of LLMs or other foundation models and how to work with them effectively. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills. Nice to Have Experience with vector databases (e.g. FAISS, Weaviate, Pinecone) or RAG pipelines. Knowledge of secure and private model hosting (eg Ollama). Certifications in ML, cloud, or AI-related fields. Exposure to tools like MLflow, Weights & Biases, or Ray. Orchestration automation like n8n Why Join Us? You’ll work on impactful AI solutions without the burden of building from scratch—just smart adaptation, deployment, and ongoing improvement. Help shape how AI is applied responsibly and effectively in the real world.

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About the role

Summarised by JobCrawls from the job ad above.

Requirements

  • At least one year of AI/ML/GI engineering experience focused on model fine-tuning and deployment
  • Strong experience with PHP, Node, React and Python
  • Familiarity with model evaluation methods and metrics
  • Experience deploying AI models to production
  • Understanding of LLMs or other foundation models
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Fine-tune pre-trained private AI models for business use cases
  • Host and manage local LLMs and application hosting
  • Prepare proprietary or internal datasets for relevant and accurate models
  • Evaluate model performance and improve outputs
  • Prepare datasets for training, tuning and evaluation
  • Deploy models to secure production environments
  • Monitor reliability and model drift and implement updates
  • Maintain models and optimize latency, cost and accuracy
  • Integrate models into applications with product and engineering teams
  • Support internal teams with model use and troubleshooting
  • Apply privacy, security and bias-mitigation practices and follow AI governance policies

Skills & technologies

AI Model Fine-tuningPrompt EngineeringDataset PreparationModel EvaluationPHPNodeReactPythonTransformersLangChainHugging FaceDockerKubernetesLinuxAWSGCPAzAzureVector DatabasesRAG PipelinesOllamaMLflowWeights & BiasesRayN8n

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About VAIMO Finland Oy

Financial overview
€5.4M
Revenue
-€31.0K
Profit
-1.0%
Profit margin
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