Gauteng: Data Scientist Lead posted by Psybergate
Posted on 2025-07-27 00:00:00
| Employer | Psybergate |
|---|---|
| Category | Automotive Technician |
| Location | Gauteng / Gauteng |
Job Summary
- Lead the design, development, and deployment of LLM- and generative AI-based solutions that address large-scale and complex problems and materially drive the company’s global product offerings and strategy forward.
- Collaborate with product owners, project managers, and executive stakeholders to identify and prioritise business problems that can be solved with LLMs.
- Conduct desktop research into the state-of-the-art in LLMs and Generative AI and apply findings to real-world applications (either requested by business or suggested by yourself).
- Conduct experimental research on the use of LLMs in real-world company applications to ensure that design and development decisions are made scientifically, and optimise for and balance all business requirements. These include accuracy, scalability, efficiency, reliability, safety, and cost-effectiveness.
- Help to manage and grow a team of data scientists, developers, and engineers, likely having 1-3 direct reports. Mentor, motivate, and guide your team (direct reports and the team as a whole) in best practices and the strategic direction of projects. Understand your team’s career goals and work to advance their careers in line with these.
- Translate strategic direction into technical product definitions and roadmaps.
- Participate actively in internal and external communities discussing and designing policies for the ethical use of AI, and ensure your team’s work meets ethical AI standards.
- Contribute substantially to a culture of innovation, leading the prototyping and development of novel methodologies and approaches. Provide strong thought leadership in this regard.
- Communicate complex technical concepts to executives and non-technical stakeholders effectively.
- Demonstrate strong emotional intelligence by understanding and uplifting team members, and skilfully managing challenging situations with composure.
- Advise other teams in the business on best practice based on your experience.
What we are looking for:
- Completed BSc / IT degree or other related fields
- 5+ years of experience in data science, with a recent focus on generative AI.
- Proven track record of Data Science or AI project delivery.
- Strong programming skills in Python.
- Deep understanding of LLMs and experience with models like the GPTs, LLaMA, Gemini etc.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
- Experience in a leadership role within a data science, research & development, or consulting team.
- Self-motivated and proactive, with a strong ability to identify and tackle challenges independently, demonstrating a keen entrepreneurial spirit.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure, or AWS.
- Familiarity with MLOps practices and tools.
- Experience providing strategic oversight and helping manage a data science division.
Please note that if you do not hear from us within 3 weeks, consider your application unsuccessful.
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