Senior AI Product Engineer: RAG & Agentic Architect

Discovered MENA; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Discovered MENA in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Principal AI Product Engineer to set the technical standard for production AI products across the organization. You will own end-to-end architecture, from AI backends to user interfaces, and define best practices for RAG, agentic AI, and evaluation.

This senior individual contributor role requires hands-on Python expertise with LLM-powered apps and experience shaping AI-native development across backend services, APIs and front-end interfaces.

Qualifications

• Proven experience at Staff/Principal or equivalent senior IC level.
• Hands-on Python engineering for LLM-powered production apps.
• Deep experience with RAG, retrieval pipelines, Agentic AI, agent orchestration.
• Strong understanding of LLM behavior, failures, latency and evaluation.
• Experience owning AI products end-to-end across backend services, APIs and UIs.
• Hands-on with LangChain, LangGraph or similar tech.
• Comfort working across React, APIs, PostgreSQL, Docker, cloud environments and CI/CD.
• Experience with AI evaluation frameworks and offline/online evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end architecture and delivery of production AI products, from backend and APIs through to user-facing applications.
• Design scalable RAG architectures and Agentic AI workflows, including tool use and human-in-the-loop patterns.
• Define AI-native engineering practices, including reusable components and evaluation tooling.
• Build production backend services using Python and modern API technologies.
• Develop reliable AI applications handling streaming, latency and production reliability.
• Establish evaluation practices across grounding, retrieval quality and production performance.
• Define reusable technical standards and components adopted across AI products.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews and mentorship while delivering.

Skills

Staff level

Python

LLM apps

RAG

Agentic AI

LangChain

React

PostgreSQL

Docker

CI/CD

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

React

APIs

Docker

CI/CD

Job description

Discovered MENA in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Principal AI Product Engineer to set the technical standard for production AI products across the organization. You will own end-to-end architecture, from AI backends to user interfaces, and define best practices for RAG, agentic AI, and evaluation.

This senior individual contributor role requires hands-on Python expertise with LLM-powered apps and experience shaping AI-native development across backend services, APIs and front-end interfaces.