Principal AI Engineer

Anson McCade; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work across UAE

Learning & development budget

Home office equipment allowance

Flexible working hours

Career growth

Job summary

Anson McCade in the United Arab Emirates is seeking an AI Software Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team. You will work on next-generation AI-powered applications, with a focus on building production-grade LLM-based systems in a hybrid UAE environment.

The role emphasizes designing intelligent workflows, evaluating model performance, and delivering scalable Python-based solutions while collaborating across product and engineering teams in a fast-paced setting.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience building complex LLM-based applications.
• Strong prompt engineering skills with experience designing agentic AI workflows.
• Experience creating evaluation frameworks, benchmarks and custom performance metrics for AI systems.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with excellent Python development experience.
• Experience building scalable production systems.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines and modern software engineering practices.
• Passion for keeping up to date with the latest AI research and emerging technologies.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative engineering environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and enhance production-grade LLM-powered applications.
• Develop prompt architectures and agentic AI workflows.
• Build evaluation frameworks and define meaningful metrics to measure model performance and reliability.
• Design and implement scalable software solutions using Python and modern engineering best practices.
• Integrate AI capabilities into existing platforms, services and backend systems.
• Prototype, test and productionise new AI features and model interactions.
• Improve quality, safety and observability through monitoring, testing and guardrails.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality technical solutions.
• Contribute to architecture discussions and share knowledge with the wider engineering team.

Skills

LLM apps

Prompt engineering

Python

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Software engineering

Communication

Team collaboration

Tools

CI/CD

Job description

AI Software Engineer

Location: Hybrid(UAE)

Type: Full-Time

About the Role

We are working with an innovative technology company looking for an AI Software Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team building next-generation AI-powered applications.

This is an opportunity to work on complex LLM-based systems, designing intelligent workflows and developing production-ready AI solutions that solve challenging real-world problems. You'll collaborate with software engineers, product teams and domain experts to build scalable, reliable AI capabilities while staying at the forefront of emerging technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and enhance production-grade LLM-powered applications.
• Develop prompt architectures and agentic AI workflows.
• Build evaluation frameworks and define meaningful metrics to measure model performance and reliability.
• Design and implement scalable software solutions using Python and modern engineering best practices.
• Integrate AI capabilities into existing platforms, services and backend systems.
• Prototype, test and productionise new AI features and model interactions.
• Improve quality, safety and observability through monitoring, testing and guardrails.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality technical solutions.
• Contribute to architecture discussions and share knowledge with the wider engineering team.

Required Skills & Experience

• Commercial experience building complex LLM-based applications.
• Strong prompt engineering skills with experience designing agentic AI workflows.
• Experience creating evaluation frameworks, benchmarks and custom performance metrics for AI systems.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with excellent Python development experience.
• Experience building scalable production systems.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines and modern software engineering practices.
• Passion for keeping up to date with the latest AI research and emerging technologies.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative engineering environment.

Desirable Experience

• Experience working on production AI platforms.
• Understanding of model monitoring, evaluation and observability.
• Knowledge of software architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience collaborating across engineering, product and technical teams.

What's on Offer

• Fully remote working across the UAE.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Flexible working hours.
• Annual learning and development budget.
• Home office equipment allowance.
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI technology.
• Collaborative, high-performing engineering culture.
• Long-term career growth within an innovative technology business.