Lead AI Products Architect

Emdad By Elm; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Emdad By Elm is seeking a senior hands-on AI technical leader within the AI Products Management Department. You will partner with Product Managers to translate product intent into scalable, secure and production-ready AI system designs, and collaborate with the AI Research and Delivery teams to own the technical quality across the AI product lifecycle.

This role does not replace Engineering or Research; it acts as the technical backbone of AI Products, ensuring solutions are measurable, reliable

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in ML/AI engineering, data engineering, or AI solution architecture.
• Strong hands-on expertise in GenAI/RAG/LLM systems and ML evaluation.
• Deep understanding of model performance, retrieval systems, vector databases, data pipelines, and cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Translate product requirements into scalable AI system designs.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, AI Research, Delivery, and Security teams to ensure architectural quality.
• Define AI evaluation playbooks, data readiness, and operational excellence across PoC, MVP, and scale phases.

Skills

ML/AI engineering

Data engineering

AI solution architecture

GenAI / RAG / LLM

ML evaluation

Job description

We seek a senior hands‑on AI technical leader embedded within the AI Products Management Department. This role partners closely with Product Managers to translate product intent into scalable, secure, and production‑ready AI system designs. Collaborate with the AI Research Team and the Delivery Team, the Lead AI Products Architect owns the technical quality bar across the AI product lifecycle – covering architecture, model performance, data readiness, and operational excellence. This role does not replace Engineering or Research. Instead, it acts as the technical backbone of AI Products, ensuring solutions are measurable, reliable, and commercially viable in production.

Key Responsibilities

• AI Product Architecture & Technical Design
• Own end‑to‑end technical architecture for AI products (GenAI, RAG, Agents, and ML), including inference services, orchestration, data pipelines, APIs, and integrations.
• Define reference architectures and reusable components (RAG modules, evaluation frameworks, prompt/versioning, feature stores, vector DB patterns, guardrails).
• Lead design reviews with Engineering, Platform, and Security teams to ensure scalability, resilience, cost efficiency, and maintainability.
• Model Performance Criteria and Evaluation
• Define product‑specific success metrics and acceptance criteria (accuracy, groundedness, latency, cost, safety, robustness, drift).
• Design offline and online evaluation strategies, e. A/B testing.
• Own the AI evaluation playbook (hallucination detection, retrieval quality, safety, jailbreak resistance; ML metrics such as precision/recall and calibration).
• Own AI product data strategy: sources, contracts, quality checks, lineage, governance, privacy‑by‑design.
• Define data readiness gates across PoC, MVP, and Scale phases.
• Partner with Data Engineering on pipelines and continuous data quality monitoring.
• AI Operations
• Define runtime controls including guardrails, policy enforcement, red‑teaming, rate limiting, and audit logging.
• Technical Leadership
• Act as technical co‑pilot to Product Managers: translate product requirements into system constraints and non‑functional requirements.
• Identify risks early and propose pragmatic trade‑offs.
• Mentor Product Managers on AI technical fundamentals

Required Qualifications

Required

• 5+ years experience in ML/AI engineering, data engineering, or AI solution architecture.
• Strong hands‑on expertise in GenAI/RAG/LLM systems and ML evaluation.
• Deep understanding of model performance, retrieval systems, vector databases, data pipelines, and cloud‑native architectures.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with agentic workflows and safety frameworks.
• Track record of building reusable AI platforms or components.
• Experience operating in heavily regulated environments.
• Strong written technical communication in Arabic
• System‑level thinking and pragmatic technical judgment.
• Product mindset focused on business outcomes.
• Coaching mindset toward Product Managers and delivery teams.