Senior AI Engineer

Client of Cognitive; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Client of Cognitive is seeking a Senior AI Engineer with 8+ years of software experience, specializing in agentic AI systems. The ideal candidate will design, develop, and scale autonomous AI agents that integrate language models, workflows, APIs, and backend systems into production solutions.

You will lead architecture for autonomous reasoning, multi-agent coordination, and tool integration, building scalable AI applications with strong emphasis on safety, observability, and collaboration with

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement agentic AI systems capable of autonomous reasoning, planning, tool use, and task execution
• Design and develop scalable AI applications that leverage LLMs, multi-agent coordination and contextual reasoning
• Integrate AI models with tools, APIs, databases and enterprise platforms to support real-world workflows
• Build and maintain backend infrastructure including task orchestration, context management, and performance monitoring
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into robust AI solutions
• Establish evaluation, safety and observability frameworks to ensure reliability and responsible use of autonomous systems

Skills

Backend development

APIs design

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

System design

Agentic AI

LLMs & AI

RAG & memory

LangChain

Hugging Face

Vector databases

Containerization

Orchestration

AWS

Azure

GCP

Python

Java

C++

Tool integration

Ethical AI

Tools

LangChain

Autogen

Hugging Face Transformers

Vector databases

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

We are seeking a Senior AI Engineer with 8 years of professional experience in software engineering including significant experience building or deploying agentic AI systems The ideal candidate combines broad software engineering expertise with hands-on experience designing developing and scaling autonomous AI agents that integrate language models workflows APIs and backend systems into production solutions.

We are seeking a Senior AI Engineer with 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering, including significant experience building or deploying agentic AI systems. The ideal candidate combines broad software engineering expertise with hands-on experience designing, developing, and scaling autonomous AI agents that integrate language models, workflows, APIs, and backend systems into production solutions.

Job Responsibilities

• Architect and implement agentic AI systems capable of autonomous reasoning planning tool use and task execution
• Design and develop scalable AI applications that leverage LLMs multi-agent coordination and contextual reasoning
• Integrate AI models with tools APIs, databases and enterprise platforms to support real-world workflows
• Build and maintain backend infrastructure including task orchestration context management, and performance monitoring
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into robust AI solutions
• Establish evaluation, safety and observability frameworks to ensure reliability ethical behavior and responsible use of autonomous systems

Required Skillset

• Software Engineering: Proven experience in building large-scale, reliable systems, including backend services, APIs, distributed components, and cloud-native architectures
• Solid software design skills and understanding of systems fundamentals
• AI & Autonomous Systems: Hands-on experience with agentic AI, including autonomous agent workflows, multi-agent systems, or tool integration
• Familiarity with LLMs and Generative AI principles (e.g., language models, embeddings, prompt engineering)
• Experience with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), context handling, or memory modules
• Technical Tools & Infrastructure: Proficiency with programming languages commonly used in AI systems (e.g., Python, Java, C++ or similar)
• Experience with modern Generative AI frameworks and ecosystems (e.g., LangChain, Autogen, Hugging Face Transformers, vector databases)
• Familiarity with containerization, orchestration, cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP), and deployment tooling
• General Skills: Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities, with a systems-thinking mindset
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams