Lead AI Engineer

About DeepLight AI

The opportunity

Leadership and delivery

• Manage a squad of 5–10 AI engineers, data scientists, and MLOps specialists; lead one-to-ones, appraisals, career development, coaching, and team wellbeing.
• Design, build, and deploy enterprise LLM agents, multi-step agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, and ML models on AWS or Azure.
• Advise client executives and technical leaders; translate business challenges into technical blueprints, evaluation harnesses, and delivery roadmaps.
• Align business and IT stakeholders, resolve project friction, and defend technical choices, explainability models, and AI ethics to review boards and risk committees.
• Design zero-trust AI security, prompt injection defenses, PII masking, and automated CI/CD compliant with regional regulatory frameworks such as UAE PDPL and Central Bank rules.

What the role requires

• At least 3 years of formal line management experience developing engineers, data scientists, and technical specialists.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mathematics, Theoretical Physics, Physics, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related quantitative field.
• At least 8 years in software engineering, machine learning, and AI platform development, with substantial team leadership in top-tier technology or management consultancies.
• Advanced Python and hands-on implementation of autonomous agents, tool calling, state management, and multi-agent workflows.
• Interpersonal awareness, active listening, client trust-building, and empathetic team leadership.
• Proven delivery of AI/ML systems into secure, high-concurrency production cloud environments.

Additional advantages

• Practical LoRA or QLoRA fine-tuning, quantization, and serving open-weight LLMs with vLLM, Ollama, or TGI are advantageous.
• Experience deploying AI in financial services, banking, or capital markets is advantageous.
• UAE or GCC market experience with enterprise procurement, client dynamics, or local regulations is advantageous.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, comprehensive personal health insurance, and individual visa sponsorship.
• Professional development and certification support, role-related subscription reimbursement, and a monthly employee incentive program.
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI projects and pursue career advancement.

Location

• The role covers enterprise engagements in the UAE; a specific workplace arrangement is not stated.