Software Engineer Technology Innovation Institute (TII) · United Arab Emirates

Rust UI; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi seeks a Senior Software Engineer to build and scale AI models and product backends. You will fine-tune models for domain-specific use cases, design evaluation pipelines, and create APIs that bridge frontends with model runtimes.

You will collaborate with researchers and engineers to move models from lab to product, optimizing performance and user experience while enabling data context engineering with RAG and semantic search.

Responsibilities

• Build products and MVPs on top of the models.
• Fine-tune the models for domain-specific use cases.
• Design evaluation pipelines and benchmarks for fine-tuned models.
• Build and maintain product backends and front-end interfaces to integrate and showcase models capabilities.
• Work with researchers and engineers to move models from lab to product.
• Translate product needs into model capabilities and technical requirements.
• Optimize model performance and user experience.
• Data Context Engineering: Connect foundation models to enterprise data sources using RAG architectures and semantic search.
• Production API Design: Design clean, scalable, and high-throughput APIs that interface between frontends and backend runtimes.

Job description

# Software EngineerTechnology Innovation Institute (TII) · United Arab Emirates · Senior · OnsiteView & Apply## About Technology Innovation Institute (TII)Technology Innovation Institute (TII) is a publicly funded research institute, based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It is home to a diverse community of leading scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and researchers from across the globe, transforming problems and roadblocks into pioneering research and technology prototypes that help move society ahead.## AI and Digital Science Research CentreTAs part of TII’s Artificial Intelligence Research Center, the Extreme-Scale Language Model team is developing and implementing innovative deep learning technologies with a broad range of applications, from Natural Language Processing to Perception and Vision. Our team has developed the Falcon models and is now planning to continue our journey into cutting-edge applied research in the topic of large language models.## Key Responsibilities:* Build products and MVPs on top of the models.* Fine-tune the models for domain-specific use cases.* Design evaluation pipelines and benchmarks for fine-tuned models.* Build and maintain product backends and front-end interfaces to integrate and showcase models capabilities.* Work with researchers and engineers to move models from lab to product.* Translate product needs into model capabilities and technical requirements.* Optimize model performance and user experience.* Data Context Engineering: Connect foundation models to enterprise data sources using RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architectures and semantic search.* Production API Design: Design clean, scalable, and high-throughput APIs that interface seamlessly between user-facing frontends and backend model runtimes.