Senior AI Engineer

We re working with a technology business in Dubai that is building sophisticated AI-powered products and is looking for a strong Senior AI Engineer to join its growing engineering team. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who has gone beyond experimenting with AI and has experience building, deploying and maintaining AI-enabled software in production . You ll work across backend engineering, LLM integration and distributed systems, taking ownership of features from initial development through deployment, observability and ongoing improvement. What you ll be doing • Build and maintain AI-powered features, backend services and APIs • Develop production LLM integrations, RAG and agent/tool-use workflows • Work on context management, model routing and practical AI evaluation • Build reliable asynchronous and distributed systems • Improve performance, reliability, responsiveness and operating cost • Deploy and operate AI workloads within cloud and Kubernetes environments • Use modern AI coding agents and automation to improve engineering productivity • Take ownership of features from development through production You ll ideally have strong experience with: • Python and/or Golang • Production AI and LLM applications • RAG, tool use and agentic workflows • Backend APIs and distributed systems • Kafka, RabbitMQ, gRPC or similar technologies • Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS • AI/LLM deployment and inference technologies such as vLLM or Ray • Observability, testing and production reliability Experience with real-time AI, conversational AI, voice technologies or high-performance distributed applications would be particularly interesting. This would suit a strong engineer who enjoys figuring things out, learning new technologies and taking genuine ownership rather than simply working through predefined tickets.