Senior AI Systems Architect: Local LLM & Smart Home

The Greater Change; Dubai; On-site; AED 391,000 - 614,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Medical Insurance

Paid Leave

Annual Flight Ticket

GPU Hardware

Learning & Growth

Autonomy

Job summary

The Greater Change in Dubai is seeking a versatile Senior AI Systems & Local LLM Engineer who bridges frontier models, smart home automation, and self-hosted local LLM infrastructure. You will architect, deploy, and scale local inference engines, real-time voice agents, and complex agentic workflows, while owning our virtualized infrastructure and IoT setups.

If you thrive on rapid prototyping, enjoy running local hardware and virtualized environments, and prefer pragmatism over bureaucracy,

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of software or AI engineering experience with deployed production systems.
• Hands-on experience integrating custom components and local voice pipelines in Home Assistant.
• Rapid development using AI-assisted coding tools to write clean, working code quickly.

Responsibilities

• Local LLM & Inference Orchestration: Deploy, tune, and maintain self-hosted LLM setups using tools like LMStudio, Exo, vLLM, and Ollama.
• Agentic Workflows & Avatars: Design and wire up autonomous AI agents using frameworks like OpenClaw, Hermes, and custom agentic graphs.
• Smart Home & Voice Integration: Integrate local AI voice agents and agentic control layers directly into Home Assistant for low-latency automation.
• Hybrid Model Routing: Build middleware that routes queries between local models and frontier APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini).
• Infrastructure & Virtualization: Provision, manage, and optimize compute nodes using Linux and Proxmox VE; handle GPU passthrough, containers, and resource allocation.
• Full-Stack AI Integration: Develop backend services with Python (FastAPI/AsyncIO) and Node.js, supporting real-time endpoints.

Skills

Python

Node.js

FastAPI

AsyncIO

Linux

Proxmox

LXC

Home Assistant

OpenClaw

Hermes

Tools

LMStudio

Exo

vLLM

Ollama

Job description

The Greater Change in Dubai is seeking a versatile Senior AI Systems & Local LLM Engineer who bridges frontier models, smart home automation, and self-hosted local LLM infrastructure. You will architect, deploy, and scale local inference engines, real-time voice agents, and complex agentic workflows, while owning our virtualized infrastructure and IoT setups.

If you thrive on rapid prototyping, enjoy running local hardware and virtualized environments, and prefer pragmatism over bureaucracy,