Senior AI Engineer at Games Global · Durban

Overview

We're looking for a Senior AI Engineer to join our Advanced Data Products team and help build the AI and data-driven products that power Games Global.

If you love turning messy business problems into production-grade ML/AI solutions — and care as much about reliability and scale as you do about model performance — this role was made for you.

Responsibilities

What you'll be doing

• Design and build AI/ML products that drive real business outcomes across GGL — from ideation to production
• Work closely with business teams (Revenue, Studios, Finance, Marketing, Operations) to uncover high-value use cases
• Run discovery sessions to understand problems deeply, then craft the right data science solution
• Engineer, deploy, and maintain AI/ML systems in production — owning the full lifecycle
• Build and maintain observability tooling to monitor model performance, data quality, and system health
• Mentor junior engineers in the team — sharing knowledge, reviewing work, and helping them grow
• Convert model results into clear, actionable recommendations for stakeholders at all levels
• Scale successful solutions across business functions and regions globally

Qualifications

What we're looking for

• 🤖 Strong understanding of machine learning — you know your algorithms and when (and when not) to use them
• 🏗️ Solid software engineering skills — you write clean, production-ready code
• ☁️ Hands-on cloud experience, AWS preferred
• 🚀 Track record of building, deploying and operating ML systems at scale
• 📡 Experience with observability — monitoring, alerting, and keeping models healthy in production
• 📊 Ability to turn complex AI/ML concepts into clear business language
• 🎯 Sharp problem-solving instincts — you break big ambiguous challenges into structured, deliverable pieces
• 🤝 Strong communicator who can bring sceptical stakeholders on board
• 👩‍🏫 Experience mentoring, supporting and growing junior engineers
• 🎓 B.Sc. in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Data Science, or related field — B.Eng./B.Tech also considered (postgrad a bonus)