AI Engineer - Ruby on Rails

Remote, South Africa

AI Engineer - Ruby on Rails

We are looking for an engineer with practical AI/LLM experience who can build production features in Ruby on Rails.

This role is for someone who has worked with AI tools, LLM APIs, prompts, retrieval/context patterns, or AI-assisted workflows - and who also has the engineering depth to turn those ideas into reliable, tested, maintainable software.

What you’ll be working on:

Designing and building AI/LLM-assisted product features

Integrating LLM APIs into Ruby on Rails systems

Combining AI approaches with business logic, tests, fallbacks, and production safeguards

Owning features from technical design to production

Improving reliability, accuracy, consistency, latency, cost, security, and maintainability

Writing and maintaining automated tests, including unit, integration, and E2E tests

Debugging production issues and improving system behavior over time

What we’re looking for:

To succeed in this role, you’ll have:

Practical experience building with AI/LLM technologies, not just using AI tools casually

Strong Ruby on Rails experience, ideally at a senior level

Good judgment about when AI is useful and when simpler engineering is...