AI / Software Engineer â Senior

Recruiter:

Network Recruitment

Job Ref:

ITE007909/Mon

Date posted:

Monday, July 27, 2026

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary:

Annually

SUMMARY:

The AI Engineer will play a key role in designing, developing, and optimizing production-ready voice and text AI agents that form part of the company's core product offering. The role focuses on building intelligent conversational systems, enhancing speech and language pipelines, and configuring client-specific AI solutions to support business growth and customer success.

POSITION INFO:
Key Responsibilities: Build and tune production voice and text agents. Design conversational flows, prompts, and evaluation frameworks. Optimize STT\/TTS pipelines for quality, latency, and accuracy. Develop and maintain text-bot and campaign-specific agent variants. Own client-mandated agent configurations and ongoing performance improvements. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver scalable AI solutions Job Experience and skill required Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field (Masters Preferred). 5+ years of software engineering or machine learning experience. Strong experience with LLM voice and text pipeline engineering. Python development expertise. APIs and system integrations. GitHub and version control workflows. Production-grade software and AI systems experience. Strong prompt engineering and evaluation discipline. Apply now! For more IT jobs, please visit \/> I also specialise in recruiting in the following: Software Development Data Engineer Data Analyst Infrastructure Architecture ... and more! If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful. Your profile will be kept on our database for any other suitable roles \/ positions. For more information contact: Monica de Wet Senior Recruitment Consultant

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