Senior Applied AI Engineer

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

Full-Time Fixed-Term Contract

Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE (Hybrid)

Company: ember Lifestyle - Luxury Travel amp Experiential Design

Contract Duration: 6 months

Start Date: As soon as possible

About ember ember is a luxury experiential studio shaping the future of travel lifestyle and guest experience We are the Middle East s first luxury experiential brand endorsed by Forbes Travel Guide From transformative journeys for ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families to high-impact experiences for governments and global corporations We design journeys worlds and moments people remember forever We create stories that you ll tell forever

The Opportunity Every exceptional ember journey is built on a depth of knowledge client preferences relationships supplier insight past decisions and the details that make an experience feel personal Much of that knowledge currently lives across people platforms and documents As Senior Applied AI Engineer you will lead the technical direction of a full-stack operating platform that brings together applications data integrations workflows and an intelligence layer at its core You will own the architecture and technical roadmap guiding the platform from concept through production while ensuring it remains secure reliable and useful to the people who depend on it This is a rare opportunity to shape a genuinely useful software product from the ground up

What You ll Do

• 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 Create a coherent platform rather than a collection of disconnected tools
• Institutional Intelligence Build the intelligence layer within that platform bringing together client supplier journey and operational knowledge Create systems that make important context searchable structured and useful to the people delivering ember s work
• Evidence-Backed AI Build retrieval RAG and knowledge workflows that provide traceable source-backed answers Establish practical evaluation observability and safeguards so AI outputs are useful reliable and appropriately governed
• Data Integrations & Services Lead the technical design of data ingestion pipelines and integrations across internal systems APIs documents and communications Build secure backend services and reusable interfaces that support internal tools today and future product surfaces
• Applied Workflows Develop AI-assisted workflows for client intelligence journey planning supplier discovery proposal and dossier generation sourcing and operational monitoring Keep human authority in place wherever judgement commercial decisions or client sensitivity matter

Who You Are

You are a hands-on engineer who enjoys taking ambitious, loosely defined ideas and making them real. You care about elegant architecture, but you are equally motivated by whether a system is useful to the people relying on it every day. You are comfortable moving between product conversations, data models, backend services and AI workflows. You communicate clearly with non-technical colleagues and know when to simplify, when to challenge, and when to make a decision. You take privacy, permissions and trust seriously. You understand that in a high-touch business, the quality of the system matters as much as its capability.

What You'll Need

Essential:

• 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

Preferred:

• Experience working in travel, hospitality, luxury lifestyle, concierge, CRM or travel-technology environments
• Knowledge graphs, entity and relationship modelling, or enterprise search
• Document intelligence, extraction pipelines, evaluation or AI observability
• Experience building internal operating platforms, vertical SaaS or travel technology