Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineers
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Role Overview
This is a hands-on, build-first individual-contributor role.
The engineer works with business and technical stakeholders to translate complex operational problems into practical requirements.
The role owns assigned solutions from discovery and design through implementation, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement.
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Role Overview
This is a hands-on, build-first individual-contributor role.
The engineer works with business and technical stakeholders to translate complex operational problems into practical requirements.
The role owns assigned solutions from discovery and design through implementation, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement.
AI Engineering Work
- Build production-grade agentic AI applications that reason across multiple steps and orchestrate tools and APIs.
- Develop workflows that manage context, handle exceptions, and support human-in-the-loop processes.
- Build production RAG pipelines, vector search solutions, reusable AI services, and enterprise integrations.
- Use MCP, REST APIs, OpenAPI specifications, webhooks, messaging, and event-driven architectures.
Must-Have Criteria
- At least 4 years of relevant software and AI engineering experience.
- Strong hands-on Python skills plus experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, or C#.
- Production experience with generative AI, LLM applications, and agentic AI workflows.
- Ability to deliver software from requirements and solution design through deployment and production support.
- Experience with APIs, asynchronous programming, typed data validation, testing, CI/CD, source control, structured logging, and error handling.
- Experience with production RAG patterns, vector databases, or search platforms.
- Experience deploying containerized cloud solutions with monitoring and observability.
- Ability to take end-to-end ownership, including deployment, operational support, and DevOps activities.
- Fluent English, strong stakeholder communication, and eligibility for UAE government security clearance.
- Readiness for full-time, on-site work in Abu Dhabi.
Compensation and Candidate Support
- The working salary range is USD 5,000–7,000 gross per month, depending on seniority and relevant experience.
- The employer covers the UAE employment visa, employee medical insurance, initial travel to the UAE, and return travel at the end of the assignment.
- Apartment-search assistance and local arrival support are provided.
- The candidate is responsible for long-term accommodation costs.
Work Arrangement
- The role requires full-time, on-site work in Abu Dhabi.
Security Clearance and Documentation
Candidates must successfully complete the required UAE government security clearance.
Candidates should be prepared to provide passport, education, employment, police clearance, and other requested documentation.
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