Principal AI Engineer
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Posted yesterday
About the role
AI Software Engineer
Location: Hybrid(UAE)
Type: Full-Time
About the Role
We are working with an innovative technology company looking for an AI Software Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team building next-generation AI-powered applications.
This is an opportunity to work on complex LLM-based systems, designing intelligent workflows and developing production-ready AI solutions that solve challenging real-world problems. You'll collaborate with software engineers, product teams and domain experts to build scalable, reliable AI capabilities while staying at the forefront of emerging technologies.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and enhance production-grade LLM-powered applications.
- Develop prompt architectures and agentic AI workflows.
- Build evaluation frameworks and define meaningful metrics to measure model performance and reliability.
- Design and implement scalable software solutions using Python and modern engineering best practices.
- Integrate AI capabilities into existing platforms, services and backend systems.
- Prototype, test and productionise new AI features and model interactions.
- Improve quality, safety and observability through monitoring, testing and guardrails.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality technical solutions.
- Contribute to architecture discussions and share knowledge with the wider engineering team.
Required Skills & Experience
- Commercial experience building complex LLM-based applications.
- Strong prompt engineering skills with experience designing agentic AI workflows.
- Experience creating evaluation frameworks, benchmarks and custom performance metrics for AI systems.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with excellent Python development experience.
- Experience building scalable production systems.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines and modern software engineering practices.
- Passion for keeping up to date with the latest AI research and emerging technologies.
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative engineering environment.
Desirable Experience
- Experience working on production AI platforms.
- Understanding of model monitoring, evaluation and observability.
- Knowledge of software architecture and distributed systems.
- Experience collaborating across engineering, product and technical teams.
What's on Offer
- Fully remote working across the UAE.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Flexible working hours.
- Annual learning and development budget.
- Home office equipment allowance.
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI technology.
- Collaborative, high-performing engineering culture.
- Long-term career growth within an innovative technology business.