Software Engineer — AI & Systems

Nexa; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Nexa is hiring a Software Engineer to join one of the region’s most ambitious early-stage deep-tech companies, building foundational technology across AI, systems and hardware. This role is for engineers who would rather own a problem than own a layer.

You’ll work across backend services, infrastructure and hardware interfaces, with a small, highly experienced team where the aim is to figure out what needs to be built and make it work.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of production software engineering experience.
• Comfortable working across multiple programming languages.
• Experience with Linux, infrastructure or distributed systems is valuable.

Responsibilities

• Work across backend services, APIs, infrastructure and lower-level systems.
• Build internal tools to accelerate the engineering team.
• Read unfamiliar codebases quickly and make safe production changes.
• Make technical decisions and own what you ship with reliability in production.
• Tackle problems spanning software, distributed systems, AI infrastructure and hardware.

Skills

Production software engineering

Cross-language experience

Linux

Job description

We’re hiring a Software Engineer to join one of the region’s most ambitious early-stage deep-tech companies, building foundational technology across AI, systems and hardware.

This role is for engineers who would rather own a problem than own a layer.

You might be working on backend services one week, infrastructure or data paths the next, and then diving closer to the hardware interface when that’s where the problem needs to be solved.

You’ll work with a small, highly experienced engineering team where the expectation isn’t “stay in your lane” — it’s figure out what needs to be built and make it work.

What you’ll do

• Work across backend services, APIs, infrastructure, tooling and lower-level systems
• Build internal tools that make the entire engineering team faster
• Read unfamiliar codebases quickly and make safe, production-quality changes
• Make technical decisions rather than waiting for perfect requirements
• Own what you ship — including reliability in production
• Work on problems spanning software, distributed systems, AI infrastructure and hardware

What we’re looking for

You’ll have 3+ years of production software engineering experience and strong programming fundamentals.

We’re particularly interested in engineers comfortable working across different types of languages.

That could mean experience with a systems-oriented language such as:

alongside a higher-level language such as:

You don't need to know every language above. What matters is that you’ve demonstrated the ability to work across different layers of a technical system and can learn new technologies quickly.

Experience with Linux, infrastructure, distributed systems, networking, cloud platforms or open source would be particularly valuable.

You’ll be joining at an unusually exciting stage.

• Help build one of the region’s emerging deep-tech companies
• Work on genuinely difficult engineering problems
• Build technology spanning hardware, systems and AI at scale
• Have significant ownership while the engineering organisation is still small
• Work directly with a senior technical team
• Be based in Riyadh, at the centre of a rapidly growing technology ecosystem

This is not a role for someone looking for a narrowly defined ticket queue.

It’s for an engineer who sees a difficult problem and thinks:

“Give me the context. I’ll figure out the rest.”