Artificial Intelligence Engineer (EMIRATI)

Salt; Abu Dhabi Emirate; On-site; AED 167,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt in United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi is seeking an early-career software engineer to build real-world AI solutions, work with modern cloud technologies, and grow across Generative AI, application development, and intelligent digital products.

You will collaborate with engineers, product teams, designers and data specialists to turn ideas and business requirements into working features, spanning backend services and user-facing applications, while ensuring code quality and scalable design.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 2+ years of software development experience.
• Exposure to Cloud platforms, containers (Docker), and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Support the creation and enhancement of AI-powered digital solutions across backend and user-facing applications.
• Build reliable software components and integrations reusable across products.
• Contribute to cloud-based application development with focus on performance, scalability, and security.
• Collaborate with engineers, product teams, designers, and data specialists to translate requirements into working features.
• Support software quality through testing, troubleshooting, code reviews, and continuous improvements.

Skills

Backend development

Frontend development

APIs

Cloud platforms

CI/CD practices

Docker

Kubernetes knowledge

Secure coding

AI/ML interest

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline

Tools

Git

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity for an early-career software engineer who wants to build real-world AI solutions, work with modern cloud technologies, and grow their experience across Generative AI, application development, and intelligent digital products.

• -Support the creation and enhancement of AI-powered digital solutions, working across both backend services and user-facing applications.
• -Build reliable software components and integrations that can be reused across different products and technology initiatives.
• -Contribute to cloud-based application development while helping improve performance, scalability, security, and overall user experience.
• -Collaborate with engineers, product teams, designers, and data specialists to turn ideas and business requirements into working features.
• -Support software quality through testing, troubleshooting, code reviews, and continuous improvements throughout the development lifecycle.
• -Explore emerging Ai and software engineering technologies and apply new approaches that improve development efficiency and product capabilities.
• -Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• -2+ years of software development experience, ideally with some exposure to Ai-enabled products or digital solutions.
• -Good understanding of APIs, backend/frontend development concepts, authentication, and secure application development.
• -Exposure to cloud platforms, container technologies such as Docker, version control, and CI/CD practices; Kubernetes knowledge is an advantage.
• -Strong interest in AI/ML, Generative AI, and agent-based technologies, with enthusiasm for learning and developing in this space.

A great opportunity to build hands-on experience with modern AI technologies while working alongside multidisciplinary teams on practical, scalable digital solutions.

If you’re a software engineer looking to grow your career in AI and work on meaningful technology projects, we’d love to hear from you.

***Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted***