Job title: Intermediate AI Quality Engineer - Agentic Systems
Job type: Permanent
Emp type: Full-time
Industry: Technology
Functional Expertise: Technology
Skills: AI / Agentic Systems
Salary type: Annual
Salary from: ZAR 800,000.00
Salary to: ZAR 1,200,000.00
Location: Cape Town - Hybrid
Job published: 20-04-2026
Job ID: 37947

Job Description

THE OPPORTUNITY THAT AWAITS YOU

 

We're partnering with a global health‑tech scale‑up with roots in South Africa, delivering agentic AI systems into real production healthcare environments in the US.  This is not experimentation. These systems are live, scaling, and solving real clinical workflows now.
We're looking for a sharp AI Quality Engineer to own one of the hardest problems in applied AI: How do you make autonomous systems reliable enough for healthcare?

 

You'll design the quality engine behind production AI systems — ensuring outputs are accurate, safe, measurable, and trusted by clinicians.

If you’re excited by high-stakes AI, complex systems, and real-world impact, this is the seat.

 

WHAT YOU WILL BE BUILDING (AND OWN)

 

  • Prompt lifecycle systems, version control, testing, and structured output enforcement
  • Golden datasets and evaluation frameworks for LLM performance
  • Automated regression detection across prompts, models, and workflows
  • Production monitoring, observability, tracing, and root-cause analysis using Phoenix / OpenTelemetry
  • Human-in-the-loop review pipelines, labelling workflows, and feedback systems
  • Statistical quality measurement to continuously improve system performance

 

OUR REQUIRED EXPERTISE

 

  • 3–5 years software engineering experience in production environments
  • Exposure to AI / LLM systems deployed beyond experimentation
  • 2+ years in QA, evaluation, reliability, or testing of AI systems
  • Strong Python skills (FastAPI / async preferred)
  • Experience with APIs, microservices, and distributed systems
  • Monitoring and observability experience in modern production environments
  • Strong analytical thinking with a focus on measurable quality
  • Master's Degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related technical field

 

YOUR REWARD

 

  • Work at the intersection of AI and healthcare, where reliability truly matters
  • You'll help build systems clinicians and healthcare operators can trust, with direct impact in the US market
  • Join a greenfield environment with real ownership, complex technical challenges, and the chance to solve problems most companies have not figured out yet
  • Hybrid/Flexible working based out of Stellenbosch Western Cape
  • Competitive salary + Perks

 

For more roles, please have a look at our website (www.60degrees.com). or follow us on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/10287263/)