Senior AI Engineer (Services)

Role : JPC - 5424 - Senior AI Engineer (Services)

Location Abu Dhabi

Must Have Qualifications

• Master's degree in AI / ML, Computer Science, or related field.
• 4 6+ years total software / ML engineering; 3+ years building production AI services.
• Team leadership experience (direct people management or tech lead for 3 8 engineers).
• Track record delivering 1 2 large, end to end AI projects (from data to deployed service) with real usage.
• Strong in Python and microservice frameworks (FastAPI / Flask), Docker , Kubernetes , and Git .
• Experience with message / streaming (Kafka / RabbitMQ), Redis , PostgreSQL , and vector databases (e.g., FAISS, Milvus, pgvector).
• Proficient with PyTorch / Transformers , OpenCV , PaddleOCR / Tesseract ; familiarity with LLMs and prompt / guardrail techniques.
• Solid grasp of testing (unit / integration), CI / CD , and inference optimization (ONNX / TensorRT / quantization / batching).
• Cloud experience (preferably Azure ; AWS / GCP also fine) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform / Bicep).
• Arabic Language NLP Experience.

Nice to Have

Tech Stack (indicative)

Languages / Frameworks : Python (FastAPI), Node.js / .NET (nice to have)

ML / AI : PyTorch, Hugging Face, OpenCV, Tesseract / PaddleOCR, ONNX Runtime, TensorRT, Triton Inference Server, vLLM

Data / Messaging : Kafka / RabbitMQ, Redis, PostgreSQL, Vector DB (Milvus / FAISS / pgvector)

MLOps / DevOps : GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, DVC, MLflow / Weights & Biases, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana # LI-KS1

Cloud : Azure (AKS, ACR, Key Vault, Event Hubs, Cosmos / PG), or AWS / GCP equivalents