AI Engineer – Agentic & Generative AI (m/f/d)

Halian | Managed Services, Recruitment Agency & Contract Staffing; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 220,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Halian | Managed Services, Recruitment Agency & Contract Staffing is seeking an AI Engineer in Abu Dhabi to help build and deploy agentic and generative AI capabilities for a major digital transformation initiative. You will push from experimentation into production with hands-on work across Agentic AI, LLM fine-tuning and production AI engineering.

You will design and deploy production-grade RAG pipelines, fine-tune models, and integrate AI services with enterprise data and APIs, while ensuring

Qualifications

• Agentic AI hands-on implementation in real-world apps.
• LLM fine-tuning with LoRA/QLoRA is required.
• Production RAG solutions with embeddings, retrieval and vector DBs.
• 3–5 years AI/ML engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Design agentic AI workflows with tool calling and orchestration.
• Build production-grade RAG pipelines with ingestion, embeddings and retrieval.
• Fine-tune LLMs using LoRA and/or QLoRA; prepare datasets and evaluate.
• Develop production AI apps in Python.
• Integrate LLMs with APIs and enterprise data sources.
• Implement guardrails to measure accuracy, safety and reliability.
• Containerize and deploy services with Docker, REST APIs, CI/CD and cloud.
• Monitor production AI systems for performance and drift.
• Collaborate with AI, data, engineering and product teams.

Skills

Agentic AI

Python development

AI/ML engineering

Production deployment

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

LlamaIndex

Hugging Face Transformers

PEFT

LoRA

QLoRA

RAG

Vector Databases

PyTorch

TensorFlow

REST APIs

Docker

CI/CD

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

About The Role

We are looking for a hands-on AI Engineer to help build and implement next-generation Agentic AI and Generative AI solutions for a major digital transformation initiative.

This is an engineering-focused role for someone who has gone beyond experimentation and has personally built, fine-tuned and deployed AI solutions into production. You will work extensively across Agentic AI, LLM fine-tuning, RAG, Python and production AI engineering.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design and implement Agentic AI workflows, including tool/function calling, orchestration, automated decision flows and system integrations.
• Build and deploy production-grade RAG pipelines, covering document ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector search, retrieval and grounded generation.
• Fine-tune LLMs using LoRA and/or QLoRA, including dataset preparation, training, evaluation and optimization.
• Develop production AI applications and services using Python.
• Integrate LLMs and AI agents with APIs, enterprise systems and data sources.
• Implement evaluation frameworks and guardrails to measure model accuracy, quality, safety and reliability.
• Containerize and deploy AI services using Docker, REST APIs, CI/CD and cloud platforms.
• Monitor production AI systems for performance, latency, model quality and drift.
• Collaborate with AI, data, engineering and product teams to turn complex requirements into working AI capabilities.

Must-Have Technical Experience

We are specifically looking for candidates who can demonstrate:

• Agentic AI: Hands-on implementation of AI agents or agentic workflows in real-world applications.
• LLM Fine-Tuning: Must have personally fine-tuned LLMs using LoRA and/or QLoRA. This is a core requirement.
• Production RAG: Must have personally built and deployed Retrieval-Augmented Generation solutions into production, including embeddings, retrieval and vector databases.
• Python: Strong and currently hands-on Python development for AI/ML applications and production systems.
• AI/ML Engineering: Approximately 3-5 years of hands-on AI/ML engineering experience, ideally within approximately 6 years of overall professional experience.

Technical Stack

Experience across a combination of:

Python | LangChain | LangGraph | LlamaIndex | Hugging Face Transformers | PEFT | LoRA | QLoRA | RAG | Vector Databases | PyTorch | TensorFlow | REST APIs | Docker | CI/CD | AWS | Azure | GCP

AI Engineer - Agentic & Generative AI in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates