Senior AI Automation Engineer — Production ML & Workflows

Client of Salt; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Client of Salt is seeking a Senior AI/Automation Engineer to design and productionise AI-powered enterprise workflows. You will combine software engineering with hands-on LLM experience, building production-grade AI solutions and tool-calling agents integrated with enterprise APIs.

Responsibilities include document extraction, RAG, context management, guardrails and human-in-the-loop controls, plus monitoring of quality, latency and costs across complex multi-step workflows.

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.
• Advantage in: Agent orchestration and multi-agent systems, enterprise document processing and OCR, data residency and regulated environments.

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 engineering

RAG

Embeddings

Tool calling

Structured outputs

Asynchronous workflows

Observability

Production reliability

Model evaluation

Inference economics

Agent orchestration

Multi-agent systems

Document processing/OCR

Security & data residency

Tools

OCR tools

APIs

Job description

Client of Salt is seeking a Senior AI/Automation Engineer to design and productionise AI-powered enterprise workflows. You will combine software engineering with hands-on LLM experience, building production-grade AI solutions and tool-calling agents integrated with enterprise APIs.

Responsibilities include document extraction, RAG, context management, guardrails and human-in-the-loop controls, plus monitoring of quality, latency and costs across complex multi-step workflows.