Senior AI Developer / AI Specialist

About the role

Reporting to the Chief of Creative and Media Production, the Senior AI Developer / AI Specialist designs, builds, deploys and maintains AI applications for marketing, promotion and public relations. The role covers technical architecture, integrations, bilingual evaluation, operational reliability and ongoing product improvement.

Key responsibilities

• Translate business and client needs into practical technical specifications and solutions.
• Build AI applications, interfaces and APIs for content, campaign and PR workflows.
• Develop document-processing, search and retrieval capabilities with source traceability.
• Integrate language models and evaluate Arabic and English performance with the AI Prompt Specialist.
• Implement version control, testing, deployment, monitoring and recovery procedures.
• Protect credentials and confidential information, with appropriate separation of client data and access.
• Monitor reliability, latency and operating costs and resolve production issues.
• Maintain technical documentation, support onboarding and mentor colleagues.

Required profile

• Fluency in Arabic and English, including technical communication and documentation.
• Demonstrated senior-level ownership of deployed software or AI systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Competence in APIs, data handling, version control, testing and deployment.
• Practical understanding of language-model integration, retrieval, evaluation and failure handling.
• Ability to implement security and client-data access controls.
• Strong business judgement, accountability and ability to deliver within a startup environment.

Preferred qualifications

• Studies in computer science, software engineering, AI or a related field, or equivalent engineering experience.
• Experience delivering AI or automation systems in startups, agencies or product teams.
• Experience with Arabic NLP, multimodal workflows, cloud infrastructure, containers and databases.
• Familiarity with monitoring, multi-client architecture and user-interface development.
• Experience in client discovery, technical mentoring and marketing or PR applications.