Applied AI - Forward Deployed Engineer
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE (relocation fully supported)
About the opportunity
We're partnered with a leading AI company in Abu Dhabi building agentic AI products for major enterprise and government clients.
This is a forward-deployed role at the heart of their flagship agentic AI product. You'll sit at the bridge between the product and the client: taking ambiguous, high-value business problems and turning them into working AI systems that run in production. You'll build the solution and help shape what gets built.
What you'll do
- Work directly with major clients to translate ambiguous business problems into well-framed agentic workflows, with clear success criteria
- Own the design, build, and deployment of LLM-powered agents end-to-end, from early prototype to production-grade system
- Flex into whatever the problem demands, backend, frontend, data, integration, to ship the most effective solution
- Build features for the core agentic platform across the full product lifecycle
- Act as the trusted technical voice in the room with senior client stakeholders, then go and build what you've scoped
What we're looking for
This is a hybrid profile, the rare engineer who combines the following key elements:
- Technical depth, you build production-grade software in Python; you've shipped RAG and agentic applications (multi-step reasoning, tool use, patterns like ReAct or Plan-and-Execute); you know the modern LLM stack
- Product instinct, you think in terms of what to build and why, not just how; you're comfortable owning a use case end-to-end
- Client-facing strategic ability, you can lead a technical conversation with senior stakeholders, navigate ambiguity, and translate business needs into technical reality
- Languages: Arabic and French speakers are particularly well placed given the client and team environment
Plus:
- 3-6 years experience with a strong software engineering or data science foundation
- A bias to build, comfort with ambiguity, and a product-driven (not consulting-style) mindset
Background we love (not required, but a strong signal):
Dual-track engineering + strategy backgrounds, applied-AI consulting with real technical depth, frontier-lab engineering, founder experience, or an engineering + business education.
How the team works
- What matters is what you ship, not the hours you spend
- Low ego, high standards. The best idea wins, whoever it comes from
- Direct, timely feedback because people care about the work
- Minimal bureaucracy, you talk to whoever you need to talk to
The package
- Competitive, tax-free salary
- Full relocation support to Abu Dhabi is provided
- The chance to build agentic AI that goes live at serious scale
Interested
Send your CV or DM me directly for a confidential conversation.
