2023-05-11

Vacancies at Wits – Machine Learning Engineer

Website University of the Witwatersrand

Job Responsibilities:

To train, supervise, and support BI analysts and Analytic Interns
To design, develop and deploy machine learning solutions that support strategic institutional objectives such as improving student success,
To collaborate with data engineers and data scientists to identify innovative machine learning solutions that leverage data to meet institutional goals.
To engage regularly and widely with academics and administrators (deputy deans/lecturers/student advisors/Senior Director Academic Affairs/Dean of Students etc) to understand how AI can contribute meaningfully to improving throughput, retention, and graduation in minimum time.
To ensure that the infrastructure and data pipelines are structured to deploy machine learning solutions
To ensure that data governance measures, ethical guidelines, and POPIA regulations are complied with
To train and empower BIS technical staff to support the integrated ML system
To design and develop an integrated ML system which can operate continuously in production (MLOps)
To investigate, test and recommend appropriate cloud-based strategies for ML
To design and develop machine learning and deep learning systems
To acquire, integrate and quality assure the data required to undertake machine learning
To run and evaluate machine learning tests and experiments
To implement machine learning algorithms

Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts and results to technical and business audiences in a comprehensive and understandable manner
Ability to collaborate effectively across multiple teams and stakeholders, including analytic teams, data engineering teams, institutional research teams, process owner teams, ICT teams and operations
Advanced programming skills with C/C++, Python, Java or R
Ability to run experiments scientifically and analyse results
Proficiency in machine learning algorithms such as multi-class classifications, decision trees, support vector machines and deep learning
Strong understanding of probability and statistical models (generative and descriptive models)
Deploy machine learning models
Reporting and analytics
Select/create appropriate data sets
Build machine learning models

Company: University of the Witwatersrand

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Location: Braamfontein, Gauteng, SA

Application Deadline: N/A

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