Senior AI Engineer

About the Role

Takween AI is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves designing, building, and deploying enterprise AI solutions. The ideal candidate will possess strong AI expertise combined with software engineering skills, with experience in taking AI applications from concept through to production.

Role Overview

The Senior AI Engineer will focus on implementing solutions utilizing Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and Agentic AI. This position requires a hands-on approach to developing production-grade applications and integrating them within enterprise systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop production-grade Generative AI and LLM applications.
• Build and optimize RAG pipelines, including document processing, chunking, embeddings, retrieval, reranking, and response generation.
• Design and implement AI agents and agentic workflows capable of reasoning, tool calling, and interacting with enterprise systems.
• Develop AI capabilities for enterprise search, Q&A, summarization, document analysis, extraction, and decision support.
• Integrate AI solutions with APIs, databases, document repositories, search platforms, and enterprise applications.
• Develop APIs and reusable AI services supporting multiple applications and use cases.
• Optimize prompts, retrieval strategies, model selection, context management, latency, scalability, and cost.
• Implement AI evaluation frameworks covering accuracy, hallucination, retrieval quality, task success, and performance.
• Implement guardrails and controls addressing prompt injection, data leakage, inappropriate tool usage, and other AI security risks.
• Deploy, monitor, troubleshoot, and continuously improve AI applications in production.

Required Experience

Candidates should have 2-5 years of experience in AI engineering, specifically with a focus on taking AI applications from concept through to production deployment.

Work Type and Location

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Application Process

Salary details for this position will be discussed during the interview process.