Senior AI Engineer - Production LLMs & Distributed Systems

Client of Reqiva; Dubai; On-site; AED 420,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

Client of Reqiva is seeking a Senior AI Engineer in Dubai to own AI-enabled features across backend services and LLM integrations. You will drive production deployments, observability, and cost efficiency in cloud and Kubernetes environments.

The role focuses on building scalable AI-powered software, RAG workflows, and high-performance distributed systems with modern AI tooling and agent-based automation, taking features from development through production.

Qualifications

• Experience building AI-enabled software in production.
• Strong background in backend services and APIs.
• Experience with LLM integrations and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain AI-powered features.
• Develop production LLM integrations.
• Work on RAG and agent tool-use workflows.
• Context management, model routing and evaluation.
• Build reliable asynchronous and distributed systems.
• Improve performance, reliability and operating cost.
• Deploy and operate AI workloads in cloud and Kubernetes environments.
• Use AI coding agents to improve engineering productivity.
• Take ownership of features from development through production.

Skills

Python

Golang

Production AI

LLM applications

RAG

Kafka

Kubernetes

AWS

gRPC

Observability

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Tools

vLLM

Ray

Job description

Client of Reqiva is seeking a Senior AI Engineer in Dubai to own AI-enabled features across backend services and LLM integrations. You will drive production deployments, observability, and cost efficiency in cloud and Kubernetes environments.

The role focuses on building scalable AI-powered software, RAG workflows, and high-performance distributed systems with modern AI tooling and agent-based automation, taking features from development through production.