Lead NLP Engineer & GenAI Architect for Production

NorthBay Solutions LLC; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

NorthBay Solutions LLC in Abu Dhabi is seeking an experienced NLP Engineer to lead end-to-end NLP and Generative AI initiatives, building production-grade solutions and shaping architectural practices. This role requires 5+ years in NLP/ML and deep knowledge of embeddings, RAG, vector search, and model evaluation.

You will mentor engineers and collaborate with product teams to deliver robust AI systems. You will design scalable data pipelines, fine-tune transformer models, and ensure API

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in NLP, Machine Learning, or Generative AI.
• Strong Python programming and hands-on experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, or equivalent frameworks.
• Deep understanding of NLP, transformers, LLMs, embeddings, RAG, fine-tuning, and model evaluation.
• Proven experience taking AI/ML solutions from experimentation to production.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of scalable NLP and LLM-powered solutions.
• Architect and optimize RAG pipelines, embeddings, vector search, and LLM applications.
• Fine-tune, evaluate, and optimize transformer-based models for production use.
• Build robust data, training, inference, and model-evaluation pipelines.
• Drive improvements in model quality, latency, scalability, reliability, and cost.
• Establish best practices for experimentation, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring of AI systems.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Hugging Face

NLP

Transformers

LLMs

APIs

Data pipelines

System design

Tools

Vector databases

MLOps

Cloud platforms

LoRA/PEFT

Quantization

Job description

NorthBay Solutions LLC in Abu Dhabi is seeking an experienced NLP Engineer to lead end-to-end NLP and Generative AI initiatives, building production-grade solutions and shaping architectural practices. This role requires 5+ years in NLP/ML and deep knowledge of embeddings, RAG, vector search, and model evaluation.

You will mentor engineers and collaborate with product teams to deliver robust AI systems. You will design scalable data pipelines, fine-tune transformer models, and ensure API