AI Lead Engineer

Lead AI Engineer / Team Lead Engineering

Dubai

Our client is a global AI software company. It is hiring a Principal AI Engineer to lead the delivery of its most strategic Agentic AI and GenAI programmes for its customers.

The role

• Mentor a team of software engineers and stay hands-on in the build, you wont be responsible but you will be the most senior
• Own technical delivery and quality across the portfolio, including agentic AI and complex GenAI/RAG systems
• Define architecture blueprints and MLOps best practices for secure, scalable, production-grade AI
• Manage technical risk and customer satisfaction, contributing to regional revenue targets
• Open to travel across the region.

What we are looking for

• Software engineering background first. You started as a software developer or data engineer (full-stack, backend or enterprise architecture) and have 8+ years of hands-on experience. We are not looking for pure data scientists or analysts who moved into AI.
• Have managed engineering teams and still write code today.
• Have moved into agentic AI and built production systems with LangGraph, CrewAI or LlamaIndex, plus RAG and large-scale GenAI.
• Strong Docker/Kubernetes skills and experience building secure, production-grade REST APIs.
• Expert-level hands-on experience with AWS, Azure or GCP, plus on-premise deployment, with a focus on enterprise architecture and security.
• Strong communication skills, with C levels and similar
• CS degree required; MS or PhD preferred.
• Based in the UAE.

Competitive salary and benefits