TRAFFIC
Western Cape
Machine Learning Researcher
Solenya
South African Rand . ZAR 300,000 - 400,000
Job Description
Push the boundaries of what's possible in zero-shot multimodal discovery. You'll design, implement, and evaluate novel architectures that power Solenya's core technology.
Responsibilities- Research and develop advanced ML models for e-commerce discovery.
- Run hyperparameter optimization and ablation studies.
- Design novel loss functions and training objectives.
- Manage experiment tracking and reproducibility.
- Publish results and contribute to the broader research community.
- Work with PyTorch, HuggingFace, and custom training infrastructure.
- 3+ years of ML research experience (academia or industry).
- Strong publication record in CV, NLP, or recommendation systems.
- Expert-level PyTorch and deep learning fundamentals.
- Experience with RL, representation learning, or multimodal models.
- Ability to go from paper to production prototype quickly.
Real research, real impact. Your models won't sit in a paper - they'll serve millions of product queries per day.
Job Overview
Date Posted
20 Mar 2026
Salary
South African Rand . ZAR
300,000 - 400,000
Location
Western Cape, South Africa