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About the Role

Takween AI is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join our team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position is focused on the design, development, and deployment of enterprise AI solutions, leveraging advanced capabilities in Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and Agentic AI. Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant professional experience.

Role Overview

The Senior AI Engineer will operate in a hands-on capacity, applying a blend of strong AI expertise and software engineering skills. A key aspect of this role involves guiding AI applications from initial conceptualization through to successful production deployment, ensuring robust and scalable solutions for various enterprise requirements.

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 and Technical Skills

• 5-10 years of experience in AI engineering or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated expertise in Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and Agentic AI.
• Proven experience in taking AI applications from concept through to production.

Essential Attributes

• Strong software engineering skills.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities.
• Effective communication skills.
• Demonstrated technical leadership capabilities.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Takween AI is committed to fostering an innovative environment for professionals dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence solutions.