AI Engineer

S&K HR Consulting; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software solutions organization in Dubai is seeking an experienced AI Engineer to own the lifecycle of AI features. Responsibilities include designing RAG pipelines, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring compliance while productionizing models. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of experience in ML/AI and strong Python skills. This full-time role is on-site in Dubai.

Qualifications

• 3+ years shipping ML/AI systems, including at least one production RAG deployment.
• Strong Python skills; solid grasp of APIs, microservices, and async patterns.
• Experience with fine-tuning (HF Transformers, PEFT/LoRA) and dataset curation.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement RAG pipelines using relevant tools.
• Collaborate with PM/Design/Eng to scope features and deliver increments quickly.
• Productionize models with MLOps best practices.

Skills

Machine Learning Deployment

Python Programming

RAG Pipelines

Cloud Services (AWS/GCP/Azure)

LLM Evaluation Metrics

Tools

LangChain

Docker

Vector Databases

Job description

Location: On-site (Dubai, UAE)

Type: Full-time

Our client is a leading software solutions organisation, who specialise in empowering businesses with innovative technology solutions by providing SaaS solutions tailored to business needs.

They are currently hiring for an AI Engineer to own the end-to-end lifecycle of AI features, from data ingestion and RAG setup to fine-tuning, evaluation, deployment, and continuous improvement, so they can ship reliable, cost-effective AI products.

What You'll Do

• Design and implement RAG pipelines (chunking, embeddings, vector stores, retrieval strategies) using tools like Ollama, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or equivalent.
• Stand up local and cloud LLM orchestration (prompt routing, tool use, function calling, guards) with strong observability.
• Run fine-tuning / LoRA / adapters; build data re-entry loops to capture outputs and feedback for secondary retraining.
• Create robust prompt engineering patterns (templates, guards, evals, versioning) and latency/cost controls.
• Build evaluation suites (RAGAS, custom golden sets, offline + online A/B tests) and quality dashboards.
• Productionize models with MLOps best practices (CI/CD, model registries, feature stores, experiment tracking).
• Ensure privacy, safety, and compliance (PII handling, red-teaming, prompt injection defenses, content filters).
• Collaborate with PM/Design/Eng to scope features and deliver increments quickly.

Must-Have Qualifications

• 3+ years shipping ML/AI systems, including at least one production RAG deployment.
• Hands‑on with LangChain/Ollama (or similar), vector DBs (Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, pgvector), and embedding models.
• Experience with fine‑tuning (HF Transformers, PEFT/LoRA) and dataset curation/cleaning.
• Strong Python skills; solid grasp of APIs, microservices, and async patterns.
• Familiar with LLM evals, metrics (precision@k, faithfulness, groundedness), and cost/perf tuning.
• Cloud/containerization: Docker, any of AWS/GCP/Azure, basic GPU/accelerator know‑how.

Nice to Have

• Llama 3/4, Mistral, OpenAI/Anthropic APIs; Guardrails/Gandalf; Weights & Biases or MLflow.
• Feature stores, Kafka, Airflow; security hardening and secret management.
• Basic front‑end to prototype admin/eval tools (React/Next.js).

Success Metrics

• RAG answer quality (e.g., >85% groundedness on eval set) and unit cost over time.
• P50 latency within target; model incidence rate (hallucinations, jailbreaks) MoM.
• Time‑to‑ship for new datasets/features.