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.
Qualifications
  • 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.
Why Solenya?

Real research, real impact. Your models won't sit in a paper - they'll serve millions of product queries per day.

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