Senior AI Engineer — Production-Grade GenAI for UAE Gov

Datamatics Technologies LLC; Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, Dubai; Remote; AED 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Datamatics Technologies LLC in Abu Dhabi/Dubai seeks a Senior AI Engineer to lead end-to-end AI/GenAI solutions on governed data, owning architecture and governance. You will mentor junior engineers and drive production-grade deployments across Arabic/English NLP and enterprise use cases.

The role emphasizes responsible-AI, regulatory alignment, scalable APIs, and collaboration with data teams to deliver auditable, secure AI workloads at scale.

Qualifications

• AI certification is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design, development and deployment of AI/ML and GenAI applications, including RAG assistants, document intelligence, classification, prediction and Arabic/English NLP use cases, from use-case shaping through to production operations.
• Architect enterprise-scale retrieval-augmented generation solutions using Azure OpenAI / Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, vector indexing, hybrid retrieval and re-ranking, agentic and prompt orchestration, and grounding on curated Gold-layer data, optimising for accuracy, latency and cost.
• Define and operationalise responsible-AI controls covering explainability, bias testing, content safety, hallucination controls and human-in-the-loop review, aligned to the UAE Charter for the Development and Use of AI and Dubai's AI ethics principles, and present them to the Data Governance Council.
• Design secure, scalable APIs and integration patterns that connect AI capabilities with enterprise applications, portals and analytics, with role-based access, data masking, private networking and identity controls enforced.
• Partner with data architects and data engineers to define AI-ready data products, feature pipelines and data-quality gates, and ensure training and grounding data meets DQ and classification controls.
• Establish the evaluation framework: accuracy, relevance, latency and cost KPIs, automated regression testing, red-teaming and go/no-go release criteria applied before each release.
• Own CI/CD, model and prompt versioning, monitoring, drift detection, observability and cost management for AI workloads in production.
• Lead the application of UAE PDPL, Dubai Data Law and DESC ISR requirements to AI workloads, including threat modelling, data residency, PII handling and prompt/response logging, in coordination with security and data-protection teams.
• Act as technical lead for the AI workstream: lead and mentor junior AI engineers, run design and code reviews, set engineering standards and best practices, and support estimation, planning and delivery quality.
• Advise senior business and technology stakeholders on AI feasibility, risk, roadmap and trade-offs, and translate business needs into clear technical solutions and delivery plans.
• Produce and review model cards, solution architecture and design decisions, runbooks and audit evidence for each AI component.
• Lead capability building for Client's counterparts in AI engineering practices, tooling and responsible-AI operations so that solutions can be sustained after handover.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring team

English communication

Python

NLP

AI/ML deployment

Governance

Education

AI certification

8+ years software engineering

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Foundry

Azure Machine Learning

LangChain

PyTorch

scikit-learn

Hugging Face

REST/FastAPI

Docker/Kubernetes

CI/CD

Purview

MLOps/LLMOps

Vector databases

Job description

Datamatics Technologies LLC in Abu Dhabi/Dubai seeks a Senior AI Engineer to lead end-to-end AI/GenAI solutions on governed data, owning architecture and governance. You will mentor junior engineers and drive production-grade deployments across Arabic/English NLP and enterprise use cases.

The role emphasizes responsible-AI, regulatory alignment, scalable APIs, and collaboration with data teams to deliver auditable, secure AI workloads at scale.