Head of AI Platform Engineering

G42; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 650,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Inception42, a G42 company, seeks a senior leader to drive the technical evolution and productization of its shared agentic-AI platform. You will transform AI capabilities into secure, scalable experiences for enterprise and government customers, guiding architecture, governance, and deployment at scale.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Product Technology, you will partner with Product, Design, Engineering, Data & AI, Platform, Security, Delivery, and strategic partners including Microsoft.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience building complex enterprise platforms or multi-tenant SaaS.
• Hands-on credibility in architecture, system design, and production diagnosis.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, APIs, identity, security, and reliability.
• Experience shipping AI-powered products with agents, evaluation, grounding, and latency considerations.
• Ability to guide products from discovery to scale with strong product judgment.
• Proven ability to work across organizational boundaries and make trade-offs clear.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction and execution roadmap for Inception42's shared agentic-AI platform.
• Evolve architecture across agent runtime, orchestration, tool execution, governance, APIs, and multi-tenancy.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Data & AI to turn models into usable platform capabilities.
• Lead enterprise integration strategy, including interoperability with strategic ecosystems.
• Establish engineering practices across development, release, and production with observability and rollback.
• Shape capabilities and capacity across Engineering, Data & AI, Platform, Security, and Design.
• Improve reliability, scalability, security, and AI economics across deployments.
• Raise technical and product judgment through reviews, coaching, and shared practices.
• Use incidents and feedback to continuously improve the platform and roadmap.

Skills

Enterprise platforms

Distributed systems

Architectural design

AI-powered products

Technical leadership

Product strategy

Security compliance

Job description

Inception42, a G42 company, seeks a senior leader to drive the technical evolution and productization of its shared agentic-AI platform. You will transform AI capabilities into secure, scalable experiences for enterprise and government customers, guiding architecture, governance, and deployment at scale.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Product Technology, you will partner with Product, Design, Engineering, Data & AI, Platform, Security, Delivery, and strategic partners including Microsoft.