Senior AI Engineer: Autonomous Agent Architect

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

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