Senior AI Automation Engineer, Production LLMs & Workflows

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

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.