Senior AI / Automation Engineer

Salt Digital Recruitment; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt Digital Recruitment is seeking a Senior AI/Automation Engineer to design and productionise AI-powered enterprise workflows in a demanding, real-world setting. The role emphasizes robust tooling over chatbots, including agentic AI, LLM-based automation and end-to-end systems integration.

The candidate will drive tool-calling agents, document processing, RAG, and reliable, observable pipelines across multi-step workflows, ensuring high reliability and cost-aware AI usage.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with production AI/LLM experience.
• Advanced Python and API/service development skills.
• Hands-on experience with RAG, embeddings, tool/function calling and structured outputs.
• Experience building asynchronous, stateful and multi-step workflows.
• Strong understanding of testing, observability and production reliability.
• Experience with LLM evaluation, model selection and inference economics.
• Proven track record taking AI solutions from prototype to production.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy production LLM and agentic AI workflows.
• Develop tool-calling agents integrated with enterprise APIs and systems.
• Build document extraction, classification and reasoning solutions.
• Implement RAG, context management and structured outputs.
• Integrate AI with deterministic enterprise workflows.
• Build guardrails, validation, confidence thresholds and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Develop automated AI evaluation and regression testing.
• Implement model routing, fallback strategies and inference-cost controls.
• Monitor AI quality, latency, token usage and failure rates.
• Determine when AI should be used versus deterministic software.

Skills

Python

API development

LLM/AI production

Asynchronous workflows

Testing & observability

Model evaluation

Tools

Embeddings

Tool calling

RAG

OCR

Job description

Our client is looking for a Senior AI / Automation Engineer to build and productionise AI-powered enterprise workflows. This is not a chatbot or RAG-focused role. The ideal candidate will combine strong software engineering with hands-on experience in LLMs, agentic AI, document intelligence and enterprise automation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and deploy production LLM and agentic AI workflows.
• Develop tool-calling agents integrated with enterprise APIs and systems.
• Build document extraction, classification and reasoning solutions.
• Implement RAG, context management and structured outputs.
• Integrate AI with deterministic enterprise workflows.
• Build guardrails, validation, confidence thresholds and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Develop automated AI evaluation and regression testing.
• Implement model routing, fallback strategies and inference-cost controls.
• Monitor AI quality, latency, token usage and failure rates.
• Determine when AI should be used versus deterministic software.

Requirements:

• Strong software engineering background with production AI/LLM experience.
• Advanced Python and API/service development skills.
• Hands-on experience with RAG, embeddings, tool/function calling and structured outputs.
• Experience building asynchronous, stateful and multi-step workflows.
• Strong understanding of testing, observability and production reliability.
• Experience with LLM evaluation, model selection and inference economics.
• Proven track record taking AI solutions from prototype to production.

Strong Advantage Experience with:

• Agent orchestration and multi-agent systems
• Enterprise document processing and OCR
• AI automation across Finance, Procurement, HR or Legal
• Multi-model architectures
• Enterprise security, data residency and regulated environments

The key mindset:

build AI that works reliably in the real world - including knowing what to do when the model is wrong

Salt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.