Careers

Build the next decade of African AI with us.

We're hiring across research, engineering, and operations. All roles are open to applicants based in Africa, openly banded, and designed to keep you working on the problems — not on the bureaucracy.

African-led, Africa-based

We hire across the continent. Roles are remote-first within Africa unless tied to a hub. Relocation support is available for hub roles.

Practitioners welcome

We hire engineers, clinicians, agronomists, and linguists — not just ML researchers. The strongest applied work comes from teams that include people who use the tools.

Transparent pay

Salary bands are published on every role. We benchmark to local cost of living, audit yearly, and back-pay when we get it wrong.

Health & research budget

Full health insurance, a yearly $1,200 research allowance, and a conference budget that doesn't require begging.

Open roles

Research Scientist · Speech & Language

Nairobi or Remote (Africa)·Full-time·$65k–$95k USD

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Lead model development for under-resourced African languages, with a focus on speech. Own the research agenda for one language family in conversation with the program director and community advisory panel.

What we're looking for

→3+ years of applied ML research, ideally on speech or low-resource NLP
→Demonstrated open-science output (papers, datasets, or model releases)
→Comfortable with field validation and community engagement

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ML Engineer · Edge Inference

Accra·Full-time·$55k–$80k USD

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Quantization, pruning, and on-device deployment across our agriculture and health stacks. Own the path from a Conformer in a notebook to a 14MB INT8 model running on a $40 phone.

What we're looking for

→TFLite / ONNX / GGML production experience
→Comfortable with Android profiling, thermal management, and battery budgets
→Bias toward measurement: nothing ships without latency, memory, and power numbers

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Clinical Data Lead

Nairobi·Full-time·$70k–$95k USD

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Own clinical data partnerships and governance across the Health program. Stand up consent frameworks, IRB protocols, and data-handling agreements with district hospitals.

What we're looking for

→Clinical or public-health background (MD, MPH, or equivalent)
→Demonstrated experience with multi-site research governance
→Familiar with WHO data standards and African regulatory environments

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Program Manager · Fellowships

Kigali or Remote (Africa)·Full-time·$50k–$70k USD

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Run our fellowship cohorts end-to-end: recruitment, mentorship matching, fortnightly cohort sessions, mid-fellowship reviews, and alumni network.

What we're looking for

→Prior program-management experience in research, education, or fellowships
→Excellent written communication; we run on documents
→Genuine interest in African research capacity

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Open Science Engineer

Remote (Africa)·Contract · 6 months·$8k–$12k / month

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Ship reproducible pipelines and tooling that make our releases easy to consume. Reproduction recipes, dataset cards, eval harnesses, and a CI that re-runs each release on a schedule.

What we're looking for

→Strong Python; familiar with HuggingFace, MLflow, and notebook tooling
→Opinions about reproducibility; willingness to enforce them
→Comfortable working asynchronously with researchers across timezones

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Director of Operations

Nairobi or Accra·Full-time·$85k–$115k USD

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Own finance, HR, legal, and grants administration across the network. Report directly to the Director and the board.

What we're looking for

→7+ years in non-profit or research operations
→Comfortable with multi-country compliance across at least three African jurisdictions
→Auditor's mindset; we publish our financials

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Don't see your role? Send us a note anyway.

How we hire.

Five steps. Roughly four weeks end-to-end. We respond to every applicant, even when we say no.

Apply

Send a short application via the contact form, or directly to careers@gctexchange.org. No cover letter required; a one-paragraph note is fine.

Conversation

A 45-minute conversation with the hiring manager. We talk about your work, our work, and whether there's fit.

Work sample

A scoped, paid take-home or a discussion of your existing work. We design it to take 4–6 hours, not 40.

Team day

Half a day with three or four future colleagues — remote or in-hub. Two technical conversations, one values conversation.

Offer

We make written offers with the salary band, equity statement (we have none), and a 30-day decision window.