Customer-Embedded AI Engineer (Full-Stack)

Core42; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 650,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Yearly bonus

Exclusive discount cards

Premium family insurance

Learning & development

Job summary

Core42 is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer in Abu Dhabi to own full-stack development for AI-enabled customer deployments. You will tackle discovery, architecture, prototyping, frontend and backend development, data integration and production operations with a strong emphasis on security and reliability.

You will work directly with customers, engineers and product teams in a hands-on role, shaping scalable accelerators and reference architectures for sovereign AI platforms in the UAE and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a technical field.
• 8+ years in software or AI deployment with direct customer delivery.
• Proven ability to take open problems from discovery to production.
• Design and implement production APIs, backend services and data models.
• Experience with relational and non-relational data stores, auth and CI/CD.
• Hands-on AI/LLM experience with production-grade impact on product/workflows.
• Cloud-native delivery with containers, troubleshooting via metrics/logs.
• Ability to learn quickly, make decisions under uncertainty and iterate.
• Strong written and verbal communication for engineers and executives.
• High ownership with ability to drive multiple streams.

Responsibilities

• Customer-embedded engineering from discovery to optimization.
• Translate business problems to technical hypotheses and architecture.
• Own delivery from prototype to stable production, including release and observability.
• Frontend development with React and TypeScript for AI-assisted workflows.
• Backend services and APIs with Python/Node.js and secure design.
• Data integration with relational and non-relational stores and pipelines.
• Build and operate LLM/AI applications with guardrails and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Production engineering: CI/CD, testing, logging, monitoring and runbooks.
• Security, privacy and sovereignty throughout the lifecycle.
• Delivery judgments and customer enablement with documentation and training.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Python

Node.js

APIs

CI/CD

Security

Cloud-native

Data integration

DevOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Data Science

Master’s degree in Computer Science, AI, Engineering

Tools

Next.js

FastAPI

Django

Kubernetes

Docker

Azure

Job description

Core42 is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer in Abu Dhabi to own full-stack development for AI-enabled customer deployments. You will tackle discovery, architecture, prototyping, frontend and backend development, data integration and production operations with a strong emphasis on security and reliability.

You will work directly with customers, engineers and product teams in a hands-on role, shaping scalable accelerators and reference architectures for sovereign AI platforms in the UAE and