Senior AI Automation Engineer: LLMs & Enterprise Workflows

Salt; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 250,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt is seeking a Senior AI / Automation Engineer in Abu Dhabi to build and productionise AI-powered enterprise workflows. This role focuses on LLMs, agentic AI, document intelligence and enterprise automation, not chatbots.

You will integrate tool-calling with enterprise APIs, implement RAG, context management, deterministic workflows and guardrails, and ensure reliability through testing, observability and cost controls for real‑world deployments.

Qualifications

• Production AI/LLM experience required.
• Advanced Python and API/service development.
• Experience with RAG, embeddings, tool/function calling and structured outputs.
• Experience building asynchronous, stateful and multi-step workflows.
• Strong testing, observability and production reliability background.
• Experience with LLM evaluation 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

Production AI/LLM experience

Python

API/service development

RAG and embeddings

Asynchronous workflows

Testing and observability

LLM evaluation and economics

Prototype to production

Job description

Salt is seeking a Senior AI / Automation Engineer in Abu Dhabi to build and productionise AI-powered enterprise workflows. This role focuses on LLMs, agentic AI, document intelligence and enterprise automation, not chatbots.

You will integrate tool-calling with enterprise APIs, implement RAG, context management, deterministic workflows and guardrails, and ensure reliability through testing, observability and cost controls for real‑world deployments.