Location: Abu Dhabi
Duration: Yearly renewable contract
Role:
Senior individual-contributor role leading technical direction and architecture for production AI systems and backend platforms within an AI Factory.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead AI architecture, system design, and technical strategy across teams.
- Design production AI systems including RAG, agents, model evaluation, inference and serving.
- Build/scaling backend platforms, APIs, event-driven systems, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes and Azure infrastructure.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership and review/write critical code.
- Mentor senior/staff engineers and raise engineering standards.
Must-Have Skills:
- 12+ years software engineering experience at Staff/Principal level.
- Expert Python; working knowledge of Go/Rust/Java/Kotlin.
- Strong production AI/LLM, RAG, agents, evaluation and inference experience.
- Distributed systems and event-driven architecture (Kafka/Azure Service Bus/Event Hubs).
- PostgreSQL at scale, Docker & Kubernetes.
- Strong Azure cloud experience: AWS/GCP is a plus.
- Experience with AI coding agents such as Codex/Claude Code/OpenCode.
- Strong architecture, communication, and technical leadership skills.
Preferred:
- LangGraph/LangChain, vLLM/TGI/TensorRT-LLM, vector DBs (pgvector/Qdrant/Pinecone), Redis, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, AI platform engineering, security/compliance, Arabic/voice AI, and government/regulated-sector experience