Companies hiring data scientists and AI engineers in South Africa
As of 2026-10-02, 18 companies have 35 open data science & AI roles in South Africa on their own career sites in our index. The most active: Wing Assistant (6), Meridial (5) and Sand Tech Holdings Limited (3).
Companies with the most open data science & AI roles in South Africa
| # | Company | Website | Open roles | ATS | Example role |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wing Assistant | – | 6 | Lever | Account Executive - AI Agents |
| 2 | Meridial | – | 5 | Greenhouse | Afrikaans Language Specialist - Freelance AI Trainer Project |
| 3 | Sand Tech Holdings Limited | – | 3 | Greenhouse | Principal Data Scientist |
| 4 | The Global Talent Co. | – | 3 | Ashby | Marketing Operations Manager (AI & Automation) |
| 5 | Hire Hangar | – | 2 | Ashby | Customer Support Specialist – AI Assisted |
| 6 | Takealot Group | – | 2 | Greenhouse | Product Manager (Machine Learning) |
| 7 | takealot.com | – | 2 | Greenhouse | Product Manager (Machine Learning) |
| 8 | TSMG | – | 2 | Lever | Audio Content Recorder (English language, South African regional variant) |
| 9 | DigiCert | – | 1 | Greenhouse | Technical AI Strategist |
| 10 | Equal Experts | – | 1 | Greenhouse | ZA - Data Scientist |
| 11 | Icon | – | 1 | Workday | Senior Clinical Data Science Programmer |
| 12 | impact.com | – | 1 | Greenhouse | Senior Data Scientist, Product Data |
| 13 | LILT (Production) | – | 1 | Ashby | AI Training Contributor - Sepedi - Remote |
| 14 | Mastercard | – | 1 | Workday | Manager, AML Data Scientist |
| 15 | Mrisoftware | – | 1 | Workday | AI Solution Engineer |
| 16 | Myhcm | – | 1 | Workday | Data Scientist |
| 17 | One Acre Fund | – | 1 | Greenhouse | Tupande AI Engineering Lead (Fixed-term) |
| 18 | Relx | – | 1 | Workday | Legal Editor - AI Content Updating |
Applicant tracking systems these companies use
Greenhouse (16), Lever (8), Ashby (6), Workday (5)
Other roles in South Africa
- Salespeople 219
- Finance and accounting staff 166
- Operations and administrative staff 96
- Software engineers 73
- Customer success and support staff 72
- Marketers 67
- Consultants 60
- Data engineers and analysts 48
- Engineers and manufacturing staff 39
- HR and recruiting staff 39
- Retail and hospitality staff 34
- Logistics and warehouse staff 30
- Designers 25
- Legal and compliance staff 21
- DevOps and cloud engineers 18
- Project and program managers 18
- Product managers 17
- Healthcare professionals 9
- QA and test engineers 9
- IT specialists 6
- Security engineers 6
- Tradespeople 5
Data scientists and AI engineers in other countries
- United States 9,168
- India 1,887
- United Kingdom 1,221
- Canada 1,078
- Singapore 695
- Germany 628
- France 386
- Spain 347
- Poland 341
- Japan 311
- China 305
- South Korea 268
- Israel 245
- Netherlands 225
- Australia 221
- Brazil 210
- Philippines 209
- Taiwan 204
- Ireland 182
- Malaysia 178
- Indonesia 165
- Sweden 163
- Mexico 157
- Switzerland 147
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FAQ
- Which companies are hiring data scientists and AI engineers in South Africa?
- As of 2026-10-02, the companies with the most open data science & AI roles in South Africa in our index are Wing Assistant (6), Meridial (5) and Sand Tech Holdings Limited (3). 18 companies have at least one.
- How many data science & AI jobs are open in South Africa?
- 35 open roles at 18 companies on 2026-10-02, each opening counted once.
- How is this list made?
- Every day TidyTools reads the public job boards of about 18,029 companies on 16 applicant tracking systems (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday and others) and counts each open role once. The role family comes from the job title; the country from the ATS or the location text. Companies that hire through other systems are not included.
- Can I get the full list as data?
- Yes. The Career Site Jobs Actor on Apify and the Career Site Jobs API on RapidAPI return every open job of the companies you name, straight from their career sites, as JSON or CSV.