Senior AI Engineer: LLMs, VLMs & Autonomous Agents

Technology Innovation Institute; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 500,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi invites a Senior AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, VLMs, and agentic models to lead research-to-production AI systems. You will design, fine‑tune, and deploy scalable multimodal AI solutions, build autonomous agents, and optimize inference across edge, GPU, and cloud environments.

Join a world‑class robotics research center creating production‑ready tools and collaborating with international partners, publishing advances while delivering

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of LLMs, VLMs, transformers, and multimodal architectures.
• Experience with fine‑tuning, LoRA/QLoRA, quantization, distillation, and evaluation.
• Knowledge of neurosymbolic methodologies and reinforcement learning (RLHF/RLAIF).

Responsibilities

• LLM/VLM Development & Integration: Design, train, fine‑tune, and optimize LLMs and VLMs for real‑world use.
• Agentic AI Systems: Develop autonomous agent frameworks with multi‑step reasoning, planning, and tool use.
• Engineering & Deployment: Build scalable, low‑latency inference systems; optimize deployment for edge, GPU, and cloud.
• Research & Innovation: Stay up to date with leading AI advancements in LLMs, multimodal models, and autonomous agents.

Skills

LLMs

VLMs

Agentic AI

Transformers

Multimodal models

LoRA/QLoRA

Quantization

Distillation

RLHF/RLAIF

LangChain

LlamaIndex

AutoGPT

CrewAI

OpenAI Agents

HF Transformers/Agents

Python

C++

Docker

CUDA

Cloud platforms

GPU optimization

Edge deployment

Education

Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, AI/ML, Robotics

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Hugging Face

DeepSpeed

vLLM

Weaviate

Pinecone

FAISS

Milvus

Redis

Kafka

OpenAI APIs

Job description

Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi invites a Senior AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, VLMs, and agentic models to lead research-to-production AI systems. You will design, fine‑tune, and deploy scalable multimodal AI solutions, build autonomous agents, and optimize inference across edge, GPU, and cloud environments.

Join a world‑class robotics research center creating production‑ready tools and collaborating with international partners, publishing advances while delivering