Platform engineer (machine learning)

Orionlabs • cape town, western cape, South-Africa • Posted June 16, 2026

Location cape town, western cape
Job Type Full-time
Category Other-General
Posted June 16, 2026
Job Description

We are seeking a strong mid‑to‑senior Platform Engineer to help design and operate cloud platforms, machine learning infrastructure, evaluation systems, and developer environments. The primary focus of this role is building a machine learning competition and evaluation platform where participants submit ML projects that are executed and scored in secure, GPU‑enabled runtime environments. This role sits at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, automation, ML/GPU compute, and distributed systems. You will work on projects such as ML competition and evaluation platforms, GPU‑based compute environments, Dockerized and sandboxed runtime environments, secure multi‑tenant cloud infrastructure, model evaluation and benchmarking systems, infrastructure automation and provisioning, internal developer tooling and orchestration systems, and CI/CD and deployment automation. There may also be opportunities to contribute to internal R&D around AI inference ...

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