ALX Africa
AI Engineer
Remote work allowed only within certain countries or regions.
Africa
Employer listed it 3 weeks ago · Added yesterday
Been open since 3 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Africa
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Mid
Category
Software
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Remote flexibility
Region Restricted
Remote work is allowed, but only for candidates based in Africa.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Remote, ALX Africa"
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- Applications outside the listed area are usually rejected
- Timezone overlap with the listed area is often expected
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About the role
About ALX Africa
ALX Africa, a non-profit organisation under the ALX Foundation, is dedicated to unlocking the potential of Africa's digital future. Formerly part of Sand Tech Holdings, we've embarked on an independent journey to provide world-class tech skills training and career acceleration programmes. Our mission is to bridge the digital divide, upskill and re-skill talent, and create a generation of innovative leaders. By 2030, we aim to empower 2 million Africans to secure sustainable tech careers.
With hubs in 8 cities across Africa and counting, we provide safe access to quality learning and a dedicated network of expert instructors. Our innovative programmes equip learners with the practical skills and knowledge needed to succeed in today's rapidly evolving tech industry. Through a combination of rigorous coursework, industry partnerships, and hands-on projects, we prepare our students for in-demand roles in software engineering, data science, and cybersecurity.
We achieve this by:
Providing young professionals with access to the most in-demand tech skills that will power the future.
Empowering the next generation of technology innovators, entrepreneurs, and business leaders through challenging, real-world coursework.
Building a lifelong, impactful community of tech professionals that support them at all stages of their career journey.
Our impact thus far:
347k+ graduates since 2020
257k youth in work
31k youth starting own ventures
60k youth in jobs created by entrepreneurs
Visit our website www.alxafrica.com to learn more about our digital revolution.
Role Summary
Project A is the AI layer of ALX’s learning platform: onboarding and profiling, a project guide that works alongside learners, the Project-Deconstructor, and the content mappers that connect it all to a competency model. These began as prototypes; the AI Engineer’s job is to make them reliable products. That means owning the systems learners actually touch, the context engineering that decides what an agent knows at any given moment, the tooling and service interfaces agents work through (such as the LLM’s access to the learner’s artifact window), and the day-to-day work of keeping long-running, multi-step agents reliable when real learners do unexpected things.
You will work in collaboration with Anthropic Engineers, a team of AI engineers, product managers and data scientists to design world class learning experiences.
Specific Responsibilities
Production AI Products
Own Ai products in production, stable, observable, with regressions caught by evals before learners find them.
Take the next prototype from working demo to maintained product, with evals built in from the start rather than bolted on.
Agent Architecture & Context Engineering
Design the context and tooling architecture for the agents, what is in context, when, and why.
Build and maintain the service interfaces agents work through, such as the application’s access to the learner’s artifact window.
Keep long-running, multi-step agents reliable under real-world learner behaviour, with clear failure modes and recovery.
Requirements
- ·Python & FastAPI: strong, production-grade experience with real users.
- ·Shipped LLM applications: at least one AI/LLM application you have shipped and can discuss in detail — what broke, how you found out, what you changed. Scale matters less than what you learned from its failures.
- ·Agent frameworks: working fluency with agent frameworks (we use LangGraph; equivalents fine) and a real point of view on context engineering.
- ·Testing discipline: the habit of testing what you build.
- ·AI-native coding with demonstrated harness engineering experience
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, region restricted, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at ALX Africa, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 1d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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