Lead AI Engineer

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As a Lead AI Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in the design and implementation of a complex, agentic AI based solution for a major B2C company in Dubai, a market leader in its sector.

The platform will deliver omni-channel, prompt-driven AI services, leveraging LLMs, agentic orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and tight integration with the client s existing digital and enterprise systems.

You will lead architectural decisions, guide development standards, and help shape the next-generation customer experience powered by intelligent, modular agents.

Key Responsibilities

• Solution Design:
• Drive the architecture and solution design for the AI platform, ensuring it meets business, performance, and scalability requirements
• Design patterns for prompt-driven UI generation, long-term memory usage, and multi-agent collaboration
• Select appropriate frameworks and orchestrators (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, Agno) based on project needs
• Application Development:
• Build and maintain production-grade agentic AI services in Python
• Own integration patterns between schema-rendered UI, prompt handling, and inference pipelines
• Implement APIs and backend components to interface with LLMs, memory stores, external tools, and enterprise systems
• Develop and integrate RAG pipelines, vector stores, and structured output parsing
• Contribute to re-usable libraries and accelerators
• Write clean, testable code and ensure robust CI/CD and deployment pipelines are in place
• Technical Leadership:
• Provide technical guidance to junior and mid-level developers
• Conduct code reviews and maintaining high standards of software quality
• Collaborate closely with product managers, front-end developers, and Lab49 s and Client s architecture and QA teams
• Stay current with the rapidly evolving LLM landscape and proactively suggest innovations