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    "description": "<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Have you ever shipped a complex agentic AI system to production, watched it gracefully (or catastrophically) break under real-world user traffic, and spent the night refactoring its multi-step reasoning layer? If you value production-tested ML rigour over isolated Jupyter notebook prototypes, we have a system for you to build.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">About TIko</span><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Tiko is an African nonprofit committed to strengthening the potential and resilience of adolescent girls across Africa. We address the “Triple Threat” of unintended pregnancy, HIV infection, and sexual and gender-based violence by building local health ecosystems that provide stigma-free, no-cost, quality-assured services.</span><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Our model brings together key local actors: community-based organizations (CBO) with peer mobilisers who act as health companions to girls; public and private health clinics that deliver care; and retail partners that redeem Tiko Miles -our behaviour-change incentive programme that rewards service uptake and feedback.</span><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">We invest in partners by strengthening CBO capacity, training frontline workers and providers, supporting clinic quality improvement, and compensating partners based on performance. Our technology platform connects all actors by enabling referrals, verifying service delivery, facilitating payments, and generating real-time data.</span><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Tiko operates in six countries: Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Burkina Faso, South Africa, and Nigeria, with additional offices in Portugal, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. For a clear overview of our work, we recommend watching this short <span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nxt4LcByn0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video</a>.</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><br>Globally, our team consists of +250 enthusiastic, international colleagues. Whether you are working from our biggest office in Nairobi, the fast-growing office in South Africa, or from home, our people are young, and our culture is global and dynamic. Our work environment is fast-paced, informal, and friendly. </span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\"><em>For this position we will happily accept applicants from South Africa, Kenya, and Portugal.<br><br></em></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">The Job</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">We are looking for a T-Shaped<span style=\"font-weight: bold\"> AI / ML Engineer</span> to join a high-ownership, agile team tackling one of our most critical scaling challenges: risk and fraud on the Tiko platform. In our engineering ecosystem, \"T-shaped\" isn't a buzzword- it means you bring a broad, rock-solid foundation in software engineering and data infrastructure (the horizontal bar), combined with deep, hands-on mastery of deploying modern AI and LLM-based systems in production (the vertical bar).</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">You will move incredibly fast to build, monitor, and optimise intelligent systems that protect our platform. This is a role where you will own entire outcomes from day one, ensuring our architectures remain scalable, secure, and performant for the communities we serve.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Key Responsibilities</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Agentic Systems &amp; GenAI Engineering (The Vertical Bar)</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Agent Orchestration:</span> Design, deploy, and debug sophisticated agentic AI workflows, focusing on multi-step reasoning, memory integration, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and multi-agent frameworks (using LangGraph, LangChain, or equivalent setups).</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Advanced RAG Pipelines:</span> Architect and refine retrieval-augmented generation systems, continually optimising chunking strategies, retrieval design, and end-to-end pipeline evaluation.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">LLM Serving &amp; Optimisation:</span> Deploy and operate LLM-based services directly in production, aggressively managing runtime latency, throughput, and cloud costs (using tooling like LiteLLM, vLLM, SageMaker, or Bedrock).<br><br></span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Production Foundations &amp; ML Rigour (The Horizontal Bar)</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Traditional Grounding:</span> Implement robust traditional machine learning models—specifically across tabular/structured data (classification, regression, ranking) or NLP—to solve complex risk and behavioral patterns.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Production Coding:</span> Write idiomatic, clean, and production-quality Python code that seamlessly integrates into our core data and software engineering ecosystems.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Structured Data:</span> Query, manipulate, and pipe structured data at scale using complex SQL configurations.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Iterative Systems Design:</span> Participate in team rituals, maintain meticulous technical documentation, and champion a culture of shared learning and graceful systems degradation.</span><br><br></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">About You</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">You are an analytical systems thinker who understands how distributed components interact, degrade, and fail. You don't just build models; you build the evaluation and monitoring frameworks around them because you know that code is only as good as its failure modes. 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font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Interested? Click Apply for This Job! Want more information? Check out our website <a href=\"https://tiko.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tiko – Do more with Tiko</a>.<span style=\"font-weight: bold\"> We only accept applications through the apply links, not by email.</span></span><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><br></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Important Recruitment Fraud Alert</span><br><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Please be aware that Tiko maintains a professional and ethical recruitment process.</span><br></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Zero Fees: We do not charge candidates any fees for applications, interviews, or processing at any stage of the hiring journey.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Fraud Prevention: If you receive a request for money, bank details, or \"onboarding equipment\" payments from someone claiming to represent us, this is not a legitimate request.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Official Channels: We only communicate through our verified company email domain (@tiko.org).</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">If you are approached by anyone asking for payment in our name, please ignore the request.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">— </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><br><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Tiko prioritizes integrity in our workplace and respects your privacy.</span><br><br><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Tiko is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour by its employees at work, including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct. This is why we will do reference and background screening checks on successful candidates before hiring. Tiko also participates in the </em><em><a href=\"https://misconduct-disclosure-scheme.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme</a></em><em>. As part of this scheme, we will request information from your previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during your employment, or incidents under investigation when you left employment. By applying for this position, you confirm you have read and understood these recruitment procedures.<br></em></span><br><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\"><em>We value your privacy and understand the importance of safeguarding your personal data. We invite you to review our privacy notice for the recruitment process to understand how we collect, use, and protect your personal data during the recruitment process. Click </em><em><a href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/11PyH3M9NwpX1h2SbKZ9GQqhHg3WIaEuD/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here</a></em><em> to view the document. By applying for this position, you acknowledge that you have read and understood our privacy notice.</em></span></span></p>",
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