Senior AI Engineer

Datumlabs; Lahore; On-site; PKR 2,400,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Datum Labs seeks a Senior AI Engineer to ship production AI/GenAI systems, lead architecture, and mentor engineers. You will drive end‑to‑end AI pipelines, embedding LLMs into data workflows and ensuring scalable, reliable delivery across projects.

Ideal candidates have 3–5 years of hands-on AI/ML production experience, strong backend skills, and experience with LangChain/LlamaIndex, Docker/Kubernetes. Lahore-based, on-site role.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience building AI/ML production systems
• Strong backend fundamentals: API design, async Python, testing, containers
• Hands-on experience with LLMs and GenAI frameworks
• Experience with model-serving APIs and cloud deployment

Responsibilities

• Build LLM- and GenAI-powered features from prototype to production
• Design end-to-end AI pipelines (data prep, deployment, monitoring)
• Architect reliable AI infrastructure and serving systems
• Ensure reproducibility, versioning, and testing across AI lifecycles
• Mentor engineers and lead AI initiatives
• Collaborate with data, product, and client teams to translate requirements

Skills

API design

Async Python

LLM/GenAI

Production systems

Mentorship

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

We are hiring a Senior AI Engineer with 3-5 years of hands-on experience in building, deploying, and scaling machine learning and Generative AI systems in production. You will architect scalable AI/ML infrastructure, build LLM- and ML-powered solutions for our clients and internal products, set engineering standards, and mentor engineers across the team.

Day to day, this means working on things like conversational AI and chatbots, embedding LLMs into data engineering pipelines, and building AI-driven analytics solutions. The ideal candidate can take AI work from research and experimentation through to reliable, production-grade delivery, and raise the technical bar for everyone around them.

Key Responsibilities:

• LLM Application Development & Delivery
  
  • Build LLM- and GenAI-powered features from prototype through to production.
  • Build retrieval systems end to end, covering chunking, embeddings, hybrid and semantic search, and re-rankers, and measure retrieval quality against defined metrics.
  • Engineer reliability and safety into LLM solutions through input and output validation, error and hallucination handling, and well-designed guardrails.
• Architect reliable AI infrastructure and serving systems.
• Design end-to-end pipelines covering data preparation, integration, deployment, and monitoring.
• Optimize systems for performance, cost, and reliability across cloud environments.
• Help define and enforce engineering standards, code quality, and good practices.
• Build reusable frameworks, tooling, and workflows that speed up delivery across projects.
• Ensure reproducibility, versioning, and sound testing across the AI lifecycle.
• Technical Leadership & Mentorship
  
  • Act as a technical lead on AI initiatives, guiding design and implementation decisions.
  • Mentor engineers, review work, and help grow the team's AI capability.
  • Set direction on AI approach and best practices alongside leadership and delivery teams.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging AI technologies, tools, and techniques.
• Partner with data engineering, product, and client-facing teams to translate requirements into AI solutions.
• Contribute to solution design, technical proposals, and estimation for AI engagements.

Required Skills

• 3-5 years of experience in AI or software engineering, with a strong record of shipping systems to production.
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals, include: API design, async Python, testing, containerization, and queues or background jobs, with the judgment to build maintainable production services rather than one-off notebooks.
• Hands-on experience building with LLMs and modern AI frameworks.
• Hands-on experience building Generative AI / LLM solutions (RAG, prompt engineering, evaluation, and light fine-tuning).
• Experience with orchestration frameworks and model-serving / APIs (LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar).
• Good understanding of deploying and monitoring AI systems in production, including versioning and CI/CD.
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Solid data fundamentals, including SQL and working with real-world data.
• Experience mentoring engineers or leading work on projects.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with vector databases and building agentic or multi-step AI workflows.
• Open-source contributions or side projects in AI / GenAI.
• Familiarity with data engineering stacks and pipeline tools (Airflow, dbt, Kafka, Snowflake, or ClickHouse).
• Experience working in a consulting or client-facing delivery environment.

Why Join Datum Labs?

• Work directly with company leadership.
• Help shape the future of a growing international data and AI company.
• High ownership and impact from day one.
• Opportunity to grow into Head of Operations, Chief of Staff, or senior leadership roles as the company scales.

Datum Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Office # 1 - Sheridan, WY, United States

Office # 2 - Block R1 Phase 1, Johar Town Lahore, Pakistan