Senior AI Engineer - Production AI & Cloud Systems

Scale Force Cloud; Abu Dhabi; Hybrid; AED 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership of projects

Collaboration across EMEA

Certification support

Dedicated hardware

Coding-assistant tooling

Job summary

Scale Force Cloud builds production AI systems, data platforms and cloud solutions for clients in financial services and other industries. Based in Abu Dhabi with hybrid arrangements, this role owns AI projects from discovery to reliable production delivery, staying hands-on and guiding engineers while communicating directly with customers.

You will translate customer needs into scoped solutions, build LLM applications, design data flows, deploy cloud apps, and mentor others, with opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong Python and software engineering foundations: maintainable code, APIs, testing, Git and debugging.
• Hands-on delivery of an LLM application used in production, with clear examples of contribution, trade-offs and lessons learned.
• Practical experience with retrieval, tool calling or agent orchestration, and evaluating AI behaviour beyond successful API responses.
• Experience deploying and supporting production workloads on at least one major cloud: AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Ability to lead a technical workstream, review others’ work and explain complex decisions clearly to customers.
• Effective use of AI coding assistants, with careful review, testing and validation of generated code.
• Professional English. French is relevant to French-speaking customer engagements.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer needs into scoped solutions, delivery plans and clear technical decisions; demonstrate progress and flag risks early.
• Build LLM applications, RAG pipelines and agent workflows with reliable tool use, APIs and business-system integrations.
• Design retrieval and data flows using SQL, PostgreSQL and vector search; improve relevance, data quality and access controls.
• Deploy and operate cloud applications with testing, CI/CD, observability and effective incident debugging.
• Build evaluation datasets and regression checks; improve answer quality, reliability, latency and cost using measured results.
• Protect sensitive data through application-level permissions, secure integrations, auditability and appropriate human approval.
• Review code and architecture, mentor engineers and maintain clear documentation and customer handovers.
• Depending on your strengths, contribute to technical hiring, proposals, reusable demos and cloud partnerships.

Skills

Python

APIs

Testing

Git

Debugging

Cloud deployments

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Scale Force Cloud builds production AI systems, data platforms and cloud solutions for clients in financial services and other industries. Based in Abu Dhabi with hybrid arrangements, this role owns AI projects from discovery to reliable production delivery, staying hands-on and guiding engineers while communicating directly with customers.

You will translate customer needs into scoped solutions, build LLM applications, design data flows, deploy cloud apps, and mentor others, with opportunities