Applied AI Engineer

About the Role

Work Model

• The role is based in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
• The position uses a hybrid work model with three days in the office per week.
• Relocation assistance is offered to new employees.

Responsibilities

• Partner with customers to identify opportunities and define architectures, implementation plans, evaluation strategies, and success criteria.
• Design, build, and deploy AI systems, prototypes, evaluation harnesses, integrations, and production accelerators.
• Make decisions across models, agents, retrieval, tools, data, reliability, observability, latency, cost, safety, security, and governance.
• Diagnose failures, resolve implementation blockers, and help customers move from prototypes to reliable production systems.
• Collaborate across customer and internal teams, provide product feedback, and create reusable architectures, tooling, playbooks, and guidance.

Candidate Profile

• Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise AI or machine-learning systems from prototype to production.
• Substantial hands-on contributions in code, architecture, evaluation, debugging, or production engineering.
• High proficiency in Python and comfort across an AI application stack.
• Ability to evaluate AI systems using representative data, graders, production signals, and human judgment.
• Experience with enterprise integrations, reliability, and cost considerations.
• Ability to connect technical decisions to customer workflows, adoption, and measurable outcomes.
• Clear communication with engineers, technical leaders, security teams, product leaders, and executives.
• High agency, strong technical judgment, end-to-end ownership, rapid learning, and humble collaboration.
• JavaScript, TypeScript, or another relevant language is valuable.

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