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Accra, Ghana
Applied AI Engineer
Accra, GhanaFull-timeMid to SeniorOn-site
Zof AI is hiring for this role in Accra, Ghana. This is a full-time opportunity for candidates who want to contribute directly to the development of ambitious AI products in a high-performance environment.
Deep, hands-on experience building production features on top of LLM APIs is required.
Compensation
GHS 7,000-14,000 / month
Plus meaningful equity

• Plus full living package (housing, meals, equipment, and wellness, where applicable)
  

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About This Role
Zof AI is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to build product features on top of frontier model APIs. This role owns the model-facing layer of our products: retrieval and RAG pipelines, agent planning and orchestration, multi-agent frameworks, and the context engineering that makes AI systems reliable in production. If you have worked as a GenAI Engineer, LLM Engineer, RAG Engineer, or Algorithm Engineer, this is that discipline at Zof AI. The ideal candidate has shipped LLM-powered features to real users and treats quality, cost, and latency as engineering constraints, not afterthoughts.
Responsibilities

• Design and build product features on top of frontier model APIs.
• Build and tune retrieval and RAG pipelines end to end.
• Design agent planning, tool use, and multi-agent orchestration.
• Own prompt and context engineering as a disciplined, tested practice.
• Wire evals into the development loop so quality is measured, not assumed.
• Optimize the cost, quality, and latency of AI features in production.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to ship reliably and fast.
• Own model-layer systems from design through production.
  

Requirements

• Experience shipping LLM-powered features to production.
• Strong software engineering foundation.
• Working knowledge of retrieval, RAG, and agent patterns.
• Fluency with the modern model API and tooling ecosystem.
• Judgment about quality, cost, and latency trade-offs.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment.
• Evidence of building high-quality technical work.
  

Nice to have

• Experience with multi-agent frameworks or agent orchestration systems.
• Experience building or using eval harnesses.
• Experience with TypeScript, Python, Node.js, Postgres, or similar technologies.
• Experience with fine-tuning or model adaptation.
  

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What we provide in Accra

• Housing support or provided housing, where applicable
• Private chef and meals, where applicable
• Laundry and cleaning support
• MacBook Pro
• Premium AI development tools
• Cursor Ultra
• Claude Code Ultra
• OpenAI Codex Max or equivalent advanced AI tooling
• Focused builder environment
• Basketball court
• Table tennis
• Foosball
• Massage and wellness support
• Fitness and wellness support
  

Benefits noted as "where applicable" may depend on role, location, and final offer terms.
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