Senior Machine Learning Engineer (6-Month Contract)

Join a bespoke AI consultancy delivering greenfield AI solutions for leading banks. This is a 6-month contract opportunity to lead the machine learning delivery of a greenfields proof-of-concept (POC) for one of South Africa's largest banks, reimagining the loyalty and rewards landscape.

Requirements

• 3 - 5 years' experience in machine learning engineering, applied AI, or data science
• Design, develop, and validate machine learning models for customer behaviour and rewards optimisation
• Collaborate with data engineers, solution architects, and client stakeholders to align technical solutions with business objectives
• Apply strong feature engineering, model evaluation, and reproducibility best practices
• Explore and test new modelling approaches to deliver measurable outcomes
• Ensure scalability and robustness with MLOps principles
• Contribute to operationalising AI solutions from POC to production