AI Engineer

AI Engineer role - Abu DhabiWe are partnered with a global investment firm to hire an AI Engineer within their Development & Engineering team. This role sits at the heart of the organization's push into applied AI, building tools that directly support front-office investment teams, quants, and traders.Key Responsibilities: Designing and building collaborative, autonomous multi-agent systems (ideally using LangGraph) that coordinate complex investment workflows Developing multi-step, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines that integrate structured and unstructured company data Building and enhancing modules within core applications used by front-office investment teams Partnering with quants and traders to support a quantitative trading and risk optimization platform Prototyping and integrating cutting-edge techniques from the latest LLM research (OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic) Designing conversational memory and long-term context solutions using semantic retrieval and extended-context models Owning deliverables end-to-end, from stakeholder requirements through to deployment in a regulated, enterprise environmentEssential experience: Minimum 5 years in enterprise-grade development roles, including 2+ years in applied AI/LLM projects Strong Python skills, with hands-on use of LLMs (GPT-4, Claude) in production pipelines Experience with LangChain/LangGraph or similar frameworks for orchestrating generative and agentic workflows Practical experience building RAG pipelines and working with vector/semantic search Familiarity with CI/CD, containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes) in regulated environments Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or a related discipline (or equivalent experience) Generative AI experience specific to financial services — trading, compliance, or customer support (fixed income, FX, or credit exposure a plus) Fine-tuning/adapting LLMs using modern techniques (LoRA, PEFT) Experience with agent frameworks such as OpenAI's Agents SDKPlease note, this role is based full-time in Abu Dhabi and remote working is not an option. Full relocation packages are on offer to candidates outside of region.