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Senior AI Engineer

LexisNexis Shared Services|Posted 18 days ago

Skills and experience

Role:Backend engineer
Experience in role:7+ years
Must-have skills:
    C#
    Artificial Intelligence
    GitHub Copilot

Location and salary

Remote policy:Hybrid
Location of job:Johannesburg, South Africa or Cape Town, South Africa or Gqeberha / Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Visa requirements:Authorised to work in South Africa With status of citizen/passport holder
Visa sponsorship:Unable to sponsor visa
Employment type:Contract

Role description

Senior skilled AI engineers with specialized, fit-for-purpose skillsets. These individuals should be adept at working in an AI-first manner to tackle complex problems and execute greenfield projects, leveraging AI to enhance and expedite our processes.

While maintaining expertise in traditional C# backend development, these engineers must be proficient in AI technologies. Specifically, they need to be well-versed in working with MCPs, possess full competency in agentic AI, prompt engineering, and crafting AI instruction files for custom agents. Moreover, they should be capable of utilizing these skills in IDEs such as Copilot in Visual Studio and Claude Code. Demonstrable working knowledge of these tools is essential.

About LexisNexis Shared Services

1000+ employees

LexisNexis South Africa is a leading provider of content and technology solutions, and part of RELX, a major publisher and information provider that serves customers in more than 175 countries with more than 30,000 employees worldwide. Our purpose is to advance the rule of law around the world. Publishing laws and enabling access to justice is at our core.

In November 2015 LexisNexis® South Africa established itself as a leader in conveyancing solutions in the South African legal market with its acquisition of a 100% stake in Korbitec (Pty) Ltd, a provider of content-enabled workflow solutions for South African property professionals. Korbitec’s offering includes two industry leaders, GhostConvey and Windeed.

The most important part of our business is its people, who are diverse in culture and possess unique skills that help drive our projects from one success to another.

At the core of our information technology operation is a team of software engineers, who constitute a third of our total staff complement. They carry out software research and development that keeps LexisNexis at the cutting edge of IT innovation, building the products that support our operations in South Africa as well as internationally.

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