Senior AI Engineer — Enterprise LLM & Agent Systems (Dubai)

TALENTMATE; Dubai; On-site; AED 280,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Arada is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to architect and deliver production AI systems, including LLM applications, autonomous agents, and RAG pipelines, across buyer-facing experiences and internal operations in the UAE.

You will own the AI Engineering practice direction, set safety and eval standards, mentor teams in Dubai and offshore pods, and partner with Platform, Salesforce, and ERP teams to embed AI into core workflows.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background in Python/TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience shipping LLM-based apps to production.
• Deep understanding of RAG, embeddings, and vector databases.
• Experience with major LLM provider APIs (Anthropic/OpenAI).
• Cloud infrastructure experience (Azure preferred).
• Demonstrated technical leadership or mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Architect production-grade LLM applications, multi-agent systems, and RAG pipelines end to end.
• Choose models/providers; assess cost, latency, and quality tradeoffs.
• Design context engineering strategies for data integration and grounding.
• Develop evaluation harnesses, guardrails, and safety measures for AI systems.
• Set architecture standards and conduct design reviews; mentor engineers in Dubai and offshore pods.
• Lead AI features integration with Salesforce (CRM) and ERP systems.
• Prototype and evaluate new AI capabilities for real-estate use cases.
• Collaborate with Data/Platform teams on data/vector infrastructure.
• Present AI roadmap, risks, and ROI to leadership across the org.

Skills

Software engineering

LLM in production

RAG and embeddings

LLM APIs

System design

Leadership

Tools

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

FastAPI

LangChain

REST/GraphQL

PostgreSQL

Job description

Arada is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to architect and deliver production AI systems, including LLM applications, autonomous agents, and RAG pipelines, across buyer-facing experiences and internal operations in the UAE.

You will own the AI Engineering practice direction, set safety and eval standards, mentor teams in Dubai and offshore pods, and partner with Platform, Salesforce, and ERP teams to embed AI into core workflows.