Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Takealot Com
| Company | Takealot Com |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | South Africa |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Senior |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 22 Jul 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
Description
Mr D, a division of the Takealot Group, is looking for a highly talented Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our team. We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us!
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This position reports to the Machine Learning Engineering Manager.
As a Machine Learning Engineer, your expertise directly translates into the development of robust machine learning models in the e-commerce domain . You come from a development background with an emphasis on applied machine learning . You will have the opportunity to implement best practices to improve the existing machine learning models and participate in the development of new ones.
This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a growing and dynamic team of machine learning engineers working on Mr D’s ambitious development roadmap.
Your responsibilities will include:
Work with a firehose of customer data.
Analyze, build, evaluate, and productionise machine learning models.
Touch all aspects of the business in your domain.
Brainstorm new ideas and concepts to solve specific use cases.
Work with teammates on design and code reviews.
Keep abreast of developments in the machine learning domain.
The skills and attributes we need:
Be creative
Be flexible
Be a team player
Be data-oriented
Take pride in your work
Be a good communicator
Qualifications & Preferred Experience:
Degree in Computer Science or Engineering (alternatively, a degree in a related field with work experience as a software engineer).
5 to 10+ years of experience applying machine learning to real-world problems OR
5 to 10+ years of commercial software development experience
Strong understanding of statistical analysis, modeling, and machine learning techniques.
Experience working within an agile team that is operationally hands-on and an advocate of that culture.
Experience with Python
Experience with Linux
Experience with BigQuery.
Experience with TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, PyTorch, and Pandas.
Experience building scalable data processing pipelines for machine learning workflows.
Experience with deploying machine learning to production environments.
Data Mining and Big Data experience.
Bonus Skills and Experience:
MSc (master of science) or PhD (doctorate).
Experience with cloud-based platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Experience with end-to-end machine learning frameworks such as Kubeflow, TensorFlow Extended, MLflow, Sagemaker Pipelines or GCP VertexAI/Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Pipelines.
Experience with serving machine learning models, such as TensorFlow Serving, KServe, or managed serving solutions such as AWS Sagemaker Endpoints and GCP VertexAI/ Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Endpoints.
Experience designing and executing large-scale LLM prompt pipelines for automated tasks such as classification and data extraction.
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