Lead Production AI Engineer — LLM Systems & Client Delivery

AllysAI | AI-Native Enterprise; Abu Dhabi; Hybrid; AED 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

UAE visa

Health insurance

Flexible time off

Ownership of live systems

Job summary

AllysAI in the UAE is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to own AI systems end-to-end, from design to production, and to lead engineers who build them, while working closely with client technical teams. This hands-on role focuses on building and shipping, with on-site engagements and a hybrid work model across Dubai/Abu Dhabi.

You will collaborate on regulated data projects in banking, pharma and government, ensuring guardrails and robust deployment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering, with 2+ years in production AI/LLM systems.
• Strong Python experience (FastAPI or similar) and API/data/deployment knowledge.
• Hands-on with vector search and re-ranking tools.
• Experience with Azure OpenAI or similar cloud AI services is a plus.
• Docker, CI/CD and production monitoring.
• Experience in regulated environments (banking, healthcare, government).
• Fluent English; Arabic or French is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build production RAG pipelines with chunking, retrieval, re-ranking and citations.
• Develop agents and tool calling including MCP.
• Design evaluation guardrails: test sets, hallucination checks, red-teaming and safe handling.
• Create document AI pipelines: OCR, extraction and classification.
• Operate LLMs in production: model choice, monitoring, cost, latency and reliability.
• Work with sensitive regulated data under strict security policies.
• Review code, set engineering standards and guide the team.

Skills

Senior software Eng

Python (FastAPI)

Vector search

Azure

Cloud (AWS/GCP)

Docker

CI/CD

Regulated domains

Client communication

UAE-based

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Search

Qdrant

pgvector

Job description

AllysAI in the UAE is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to own AI systems end-to-end, from design to production, and to lead engineers who build them, while working closely with client technical teams. This hands-on role focuses on building and shipping, with on-site engagements and a hybrid work model across Dubai/Abu Dhabi.

You will collaborate on regulated data projects in banking, pharma and government, ensuring guardrails and robust deployment.