Senior AI Software Engineer (Applied AI & Distributed Systems)

UMATR is partnering with an unnamed technology company building intelligent software for advanced engineering environments. The Senior AI Software Engineer will develop production AI systems and engineering tools, take products from prototypes to production, and work with customers to solve real-world challenges.

Responsibilities

• Build production AI systems, including agent infrastructure, retrieval pipelines, evaluation frameworks and intelligent workflows
• Develop AI-powered engineering tools that help users investigate anomalies, identify root causes and analyse complex system behaviour
• Work with large-scale datasets, including time-series data, telemetry, logs and operational information
• Design scalable backend infrastructure to support reliable, production-ready AI applications
• Take ideas from zero to one, rapidly prototyping, testing and improving solutions based on customer feedback
• Influence product and engineering decisions, helping identify which technical problems to solve and how to approach them
• Collaborate directly with customers to understand real-world challenges and turn them into practical software solutions

Preferred

• AI agents, LLM applications, RAG, retrieval pipelines or evaluation frameworks
• Telemetry, observability platforms or time-series databases
• Robotics, aerospace, autonomous systems, industrial technology or other hardware-related environments
• Experience working in early-stage startups, founding engineering teams or new product development teams
• AI Agents
• LLM Applications
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation
• Retrieval Pipelines
• Evaluation Frameworks
• Telemetry
• Observability Platforms
• Time-Series Databases
• Robotics
• Aerospace
• Autonomous Systems
• Industrial Technology
• Hardware Environments
• Early-Stage Startup Experience
• Founding Engineering Teams
• New Product Development

Company

• Specialized software, data, and AI recruitment agency
• Dubai, Dubai, ARE
• https://umatr.io/
• Founded in 2021
• 11-50 employees

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including experience building AI or machine learning products deployed in production
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, particularly in backend development, distributed systems or data-intensive applications
• Experience working with large datasets, time-series data, data infrastructure or ML systems
• Hands-on experience developing and deploying AI-powered applications
• Experience taking products from early-stage ideas through to production
• Comfortable working in ambiguous environments, making technical decisions and taking ownership
• Strong problem-solving skills and an interest in understanding real customer challenges
• AI agents, LLM applications, RAG, retrieval pipelines or evaluation frameworks
• Telemetry, observability platforms or time-series databases
• Robotics, aerospace, autonomous systems, industrial technology or other hardware-related environments
• Experience working in early-stage startups, founding engineering teams or new product development teams
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including experience building AI or machine learning products deployed in production.

Required skills

• AI Agents, AI/ML Engineering, Backend Development, Data Infrastructure, Data-Intensive Applications, Distributed Systems, Evaluation Frameworks, LLM Applications, Large-Scale Data, Retrieval Pipelines, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Time-Series Data

Preferred skills

• AI Tools, Analyze How Well You Fit, Build Cover Letter, Company data provided by, Customize Your Resume, Dubai, Dubai, ARE, Make your application stand out, Maximize your interview chances, Specialized software, data, and AI recruitment agency., Telemetry, observability platforms or time-series databases, Understand your strength & weakness, https://umatr.io

Experience

• 5+ years