Senior AI Platform Architect for Luxury Travel Tech

Ember Lifestyle Travel LLC; Abu Dhabi, Dubai; Hybrid; AED 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Ember Lifestyle Travel LLC in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Applied AI Engineer to lead the architecture of a full-stack operating platform for its luxury travel and experiential design business. You will drive the platform from concept to production, ensuring security, reliability, and user value in a hybrid Abu Dhabi setup.

You will own the technical roadmap, integrate applications and data, design AI workflows, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact experiences for

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including production AI-powered applications and at least two years of hands-on experience building LLM, retrieval or AI workflow systems in production.
• Strong experience with LLM applications, RAG, semantic retrieval and structured data retrieval.
• Strong full-stack engineering skills, including user-facing applications and backend services in Python and/or TypeScript.
• Experience with APIs, integrations, data modelling and cloud deployment.
• Practical understanding of authentication, permissions, logging and secure data handling.
• Ability to own technical decisions and explain trade-offs clearly.

Responsibilities

• Product & Platform Architecture Design and build the full-stack software platform that will support ember's operating environment, user-facing applications, backend services, data foundations, integrations and the workflows that connect them.
• Institutional Intelligence Build the intelligence layer within that platform, bringing together client, supplier, journey and operational knowledge.
• Evidence-Backed AI Build retrieval, RAG and knowledge workflows that provide traceable source-backed answers; establish observability and governance.
• Data Integrations & Services Lead the technical design of data ingestion pipelines and integrations across internal systems, APIs, documents and communications.
• Applied Workflows Develop AI-assisted workflows for client intelligence, journey planning, supplier discovery, proposal and dossier generation, sourcing and monitoring.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

LLM & AI workflows

APIs & integrations

Data modelling & cloud

Security & permissions

Decision making

Tools

Python

TypeScript

Cloud deployment

Job description

Ember Lifestyle Travel LLC in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Applied AI Engineer to lead the architecture of a full-stack operating platform for its luxury travel and experiential design business. You will drive the platform from concept to production, ensuring security, reliability, and user value in a hybrid Abu Dhabi setup.

You will own the technical roadmap, integrate applications and data, design AI workflows, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact experiences for