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AI Support Engineer
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Umhlanga, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Listed on 2026-08-14
Listing for:
Ignition Group
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-08-14
Job specializations:
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Software Development
AI Engineer (Applied/Software)
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Application Development
- Design, build, and maintain features, integrations, and defect fixes across the Group's AI applications.
- Deliver changes through the team's standard development and review workflow.
- Implement changes to a standard that passes senior code review.
- Contribute to technical design discussions for new and existing AI applications.
- Use AI development tools to work efficiently, while remaining accountable for the quality of the output.
Testing and Quality
- Establish and maintain automated testing for AI applications.
- Integrate automated test execution into the release process so that changes are verified before reaching production.
- Establish evaluation and regression testing for AI behaviour, covering prompts, model outputs, and agent workflows.
- Validate model, prompt, and provider changes before release.
- Maintain test cases and test data, and verify defect fixes and releases before they reach users.
- Report test results and quality risks, and raise concerns where the evidence does not support release.
Application Support
- Provide second-line application support, triaging reported issues and establishing their impact.
- Reproduce and diagnose defects, resolving them in code where possible.
- Escalate complex or high-impact problems with clear technical detail.
- Agree service levels and incident severity definitions with each application's business owner, and establish the means to report against them.
- Track recurring issues and feed them into the product backlog.
- Provide practical guidance to users of AI applications.
Monitoring, Documentation and Continuous Improvement
- Monitor the health, reliability, and output quality of AI applications.
- Translate what monitoring shows into prioritised fixes and improvements.
- Maintain technical documentation for supported applications.
- Contribute to improving the team's development, testing, and release practices.
• Apply data privacy and security obligations when working with AI applications and the data they process.
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