Staff AI Systems Architect & Platform Lead

Rewaa; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading SaaS company is seeking a Staff AI Engineer in Riyadh to lead the technical direction for AI systems. In this senior role, you'll design and oversee architectural standards while mentoring engineers. You'll handle end-to-end AI systems with hands-on leadership, focusing on reliability and maintainability. The position demands extensive experience in AI engineering and a strong foundational knowledge in software development.

Qualifications

• 6-10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years building and operating AI-powered systems in production environments.
• Experience with prompt testing and evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Define reference architectures and best practices for AI systems.
• Architect and design scalable RAG and agent-based systems.
• Own production incidents and lead post-mortems.

Skills

AI systems design and operation

LLM orchestration frameworks

Distributed systems experience

Monitoring and observability

Advanced Python engineering

Job description

A leading SaaS company is seeking a Staff AI Engineer in Riyadh to lead the technical direction for AI systems. In this senior role, you'll design and oversee architectural standards while mentoring engineers. You'll handle end-to-end AI systems with hands-on leadership, focusing on reliability and maintainability. The position demands extensive experience in AI engineering and a strong foundational knowledge in software development.