Senior AI Platform Engineer: LLMs, Security & Production

Qashio Inc.; Dubai Emirate; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Qashio Inc. in Dubai seeks an AI engineer to translate cutting-edge AI into reliable software. You own hard problems from design to production, prioritizing quality, safety and proper controls.

You will architect end-to-end AI/LLM systems, build reusable platform components, and implement security, observability, and compliance controls. Collaborate with product and business teams to deliver dependable solutions with human oversight.

Qualifications

• 5+ years software engineering with Python and production backend/API experience.
• Hands-on production experience with LangChain/LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, Microsoft Agent Framework/Semantic Kernel or comparable agent SDKs, including durable workflows, structured outputs, tool calling and HITL.
• Experience building permission-aware RAG and ingestion pipelines with LlamaIndex, Haystack or LangChain and vector stores such as pgvector, Pinecone or Qdrant, including source ACLs and data isolation.
• Strong cloud-native engineering fundamentals, plus evaluation and tracing with LangSmith, Arize Phoenix, DeepEval, Ragas or equivalent, including CI/CD release gates and incident readiness.
• Hands-on experience implementing guardrails with NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails, Guardrails AI, OpenAI Guardrails or equivalent, covering prompt injection, PII/data leakage, output validation and unsafe tool use.
• Experience implementing fine-grained permissions and secure tools/connectors with OPA, OpenFGA, Cedar or equivalent, plus MCP, OAuth/service authentication, least-privilege scopes and approval gates.
• Clear communicator who turns ambiguous problems into scoped milestones, architecture decisions, runbooks and shipped, reliable software.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical architecture of our AI / LLM systems end to end - from framework and tooling choices through to deployment.
• Build reusable platform components: a model gateway, permission-aware RAG, agent orchestration, secure tools/MCP connectors and internal-system integrations.
• Translate security and compliance policy into technical controls for SSO/RBAC, data classification and isolation, PII, secrets, approvals and audit.
• Establish evaluation, observability and release gates covering answer and retrieval quality, safety, cost, latency, reliability and drift.
• Partner with product and business teams to turn priority problems into shipped, dependable solutions, with the right human oversight.
• Keep the architecture modular and vendor-neutral, so we are never locked to a single framework or model provider.

Skills

Python

Backend API

LangChain

LangGraph

OpenAI Agents

System architecture

CI/CD

Security & compliance

Tools

LangSmith

Arize

Guardrails AI

OpenAI

NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails

OpenFGA

Job description

Qashio Inc. in Dubai seeks an AI engineer to translate cutting-edge AI into reliable software. You own hard problems from design to production, prioritizing quality, safety and proper controls.

You will architect end-to-end AI/LLM systems, build reusable platform components, and implement security, observability, and compliance controls. Collaborate with product and business teams to deliver dependable solutions with human oversight.