AI Specialist / ML Engineer

Location Dubai
Discipline: Technology
Job type: Permanent
Published: 6 days ago

​Our client is building an internal LLM platform for multiple business units (Arabic/English). They need an AI Specialist / ML Engineer to productionize models, stand up retrieval, and harden safety/observability—working closely with Security, Data, and Product.

Role at a glance

Own the end-to-end technical path from prototype to production for LLM features (chat, agents, document QA), with strong focus on reliability, safety, and cost.

Key responsibilities

  • Stand up inference endpoints and routing across OSS/commercial models; implement prompt/version management.

  • Build retrieval (chunking, embeddings, vector DB), caching, and eval pipelines; define SLOs for latency, cost, and quality.

  • Implement guardrails (PII/redaction, toxicity, jailbreak resistance) and red-team tests; instrument hallucination & grounding metrics.

  • Create golden-path IaC/Terraform templates; integrate with CI/CD, secrets/KMS, and observability (tracing, tokens, costs).

  • Optimize GPU/accelerator usage; benchmark models; support fine-tuning/LoRA where justified.

  • Partner with Security/Compliance on PDPL/data-residency and audit readiness.

Candidate profile

  • 5–8+ years in ML/Platform with 2–3+ years LLM apps in production.

  • Strong Python + one typed language (TypeScript/Go/Java), vector DBs, and cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP).

  • Experience with eval/guardrail frameworks and observability; comfort with infra basics (containers, K8s).

  • Clear communication; thrives in cross-functional delivery.