AI Engineer
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Company Description
Nafes.ai is the first tender analytics and bid management platform in the Arab world.
Combining advanced artificial intelligence and data science, Nafes.ai enhances the success and predictability of bids.
The platform empowers organizations to unlock revenue from tenders and drive scalable growth, offering innovative solutions tailored to the competitive bidding process.
The Role
We're looking for an
AI Engineer
to own and advance the brain of our product.
You'll be the person who makes Nafes
*smart*
— responsible for LLM orchestration, retrieval systems, document intelligence, and the AI features that set us apart from every other tender platform in the market.
This is a hands-on builder role.
You'll write production code daily, ship features end-to-end, and own the AI services our entire product depends on.
What You'll Own
- Design and maintain our LLM service layer, prompt engineering, model selection and routing, fallback logic, response caching, and cost optimization across leading AI providers
- Own the embedding and search infrastructure powering tender matching, BOQ similarity, and competitor discovery
- Build and improve systems that extract structured intelligence from Arabic government procurement documents, classification, entity recognition, and compliance detection
- Implement the AI logic behind our core product features: Go/No-Go analysis, win probability scoring, estimated tender cost, risk assessment, competitor intelligence, and smart recommendations
- Monitor and optimize AI API spend, embedding efficiency, and reliability at scale
What We're Looking For
- 3+ years building AI/ML systems
- in production, n
- ot just research or notebooks
- Strong Python with hands-on async framework experience (FastAPI or equivalent)
- Proven experience integrating and orchestrating LLM APIs in shipped products
- Working knowledge of vector search and embeddings
- Experience with document processing, PDF extraction, OCR, or structured data extraction from unstructured sources
- Ability to ship clean, documented, production-grade code with proper error handling
- Comfortable owning a domain end-to-end with minimal supervision in a startup environment
Strong Preferences
- Arabic language proficiency, our entire data domain is Arabic government procurement
- Experience with Arabic NLP, tokenization, entity recognition, text classification
- Background in procurement, tenders, or government contracting
- Track record of AI cost optimization, prompt caching, model routing, embedding deduplication
- Experience building recommendation or scoring systems in production
What Success Looks Like
In your first 30 days, you'll be onboarded, shipping your first production improvement, and documenting the AI systems you own.
By 90 days, you'll have full ownership of our LLM orchestration layer with at least one measurable improvement to cost efficiency or model accuracy.
Within 6 months, you'll be driving AI roadmap items, recommendation agents, confidence engines, pricing intelligence, from design through deployment.
You'll be the go-to person for anything AI at Nafes.
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