Senior AI / Automation Engineer
Abu Dhabi, UAE | Full-time 12 month FTE to perm
The Opportunity
Our client is looking for a Senior AI / Automation Engineer to build and productionise AI-powered enterprise workflows.
This is not a chatbot or RAG-focused role. The ideal candidate will combine strong software engineering with hands-on experience in LLMs, agentic AI, document intelligence and enterprise automation.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and deploy production LLM and agentic AI workflows.
- Develop tool-calling agents integrated with enterprise APIs and systems.
- Build document extraction, classification and reasoning solutions.
- Implement RAG, context management and structured outputs.
- Integrate AI with deterministic enterprise workflows.
- Build guardrails, validation, confidence thresholds and human-in-the-loop controls.
- Develop automated AI evaluation and regression testing.
- Implement model routing, fallback strategies and inference-cost controls.
- Monitor AI quality, latency, token usage and failure rates.
- Determine when AI should be used versus deterministic software.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering background with production AI/LLM experience.
- Advanced Python and API/service development skills.
- Hands-on experience with RAG, embeddings, tool/function calling and structured outputs.
- Experience building asynchronous, stateful and multi-step workflows.
- Strong understanding of testing, observability and production reliability.
- Experience with LLM evaluation, model selection and inference economics.
- Proven track record taking AI solutions from prototype to production.
Strong Advantage
Experience with:
- Agent orchestration and multi-agent systems
- Enterprise document processing and OCR
- AI automation across Finance, Procurement, HR or Legal
- Multi-model architectures
- Enterprise security, data residency and regulated environments
The key mindset: build AI that works reliably in the real world — including knowing what to do when the model is wrong
*** Only successful candidates will be contacted ***
