Senior AI / Automation Engineer

About the role

A Senior AI / Automation Engineer is sought in Abu Dhabi to embed AI safely into real enterprise workflows. This is not primarily a chatbot or RAG role; the successful candidate combines strong software engineering with production experience in LLMs, agentic systems, document intelligence and enterprise automation. The position is full-time, 12 FTE, on a contract-to-permanent basis.

Key responsibilities

• Build production LLM and agentic workflow capabilities.
• Develop tool-calling agents that interact with enterprise APIs.
• Implement document extraction, classification and reasoning.
• Build retrieval and context-management patterns for enterprise knowledge.
• Integrate AI services with deterministic workflow systems.
• Implement structured outputs, validation, confidence thresholds and human review mechanisms.
• Build automated evaluation and regression-testing pipelines.
• Design guardrails and policy controls, and implement model routing and inference-cost controls.
• Monitor latency, token consumption, quality and failure rates.
• Design fallback behavior when AI cannot safely complete a task, and decide when deterministic software is more appropriate than an LLM.

Required profile

• Strong software-engineering foundation.
• Production experience delivering LLM applications to real users.
• Experience taking AI systems beyond the prototype stage.

Required skills

• Strong Python development.
• API and service development.
• RAG, embeddings and structured/tool calling.
• Asynchronous processing and state management.
• Testing, observability and production error handling.
• Automated LLM evaluation.
• Understanding of context windows, model economics and inference cost.