Principal/Sr Staff Engineer – AI Infrastructure Management (AIMS), UI, Orchestration & Lifecycle Management - Riyadh, KSA

About Us

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and own major components of AIMS spanning operator-facing UI, orchestration services, and lifecycle management workflows.
• Drive technical execution for Day-0 through Day-2 operations including provisioning, configuration, upgrades, expansion, and decommissioning of AI infrastructure.
• Build reliable, observable, and scalable control-plane services that manage racks, clusters, and fleets of AI systems.
• Collaborate with UI, platform, firmware, and hardware teams to ensure cohesive system behavior from silicon to software.
• Participate actively in design reviews, code reviews, debugging, and performance analysis of distributed systems.
• Act as a technical mentor for senior and staff engineers, raising the overall engineering bar through examples and guidance.

UI & Operator Experience

• Develop and maintain operator-facing web applications and dashboards using Node.js.
• Implement UI workflows for monitoring, inventory, telemetry visualization, and lifecycle operations.
• Ensure UI components are tightly aligned with backend APIs, state models, and real-world operational workflows.

Orchestration & Control Plane

• Design and implement orchestration services responsible for resource abstraction, scheduling, and workload lifecycle management for AI workloads.
• Build and operate control-plane services deployed on Kubernetes.
• Ensure orchestration logic integrates cleanly with underlying rack and node management systems.

Lifecycle Management & Automation

• Implement lifecycle automation using Terraform and Ansible for provisioning, configuration, and updates.
• Design safe rollout, upgrade, rollback, and recovery mechanisms suitable for fleet-scale deployments.
• Develop Python-based automation and services to support lifecycle workflows and operational tooling.

Technical Skills & Qualifications

• Strong experience with Node.js for backend and UI-driven infrastructure systems.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code and environment management.
• Proficiency with Ansible for configuration management and automation.
• Solid knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker for deploying and operating distributed systems.
• Strong Python skills for orchestration services, tooling, and automation.
• Experience building or operating large-scale infrastructure or platform software in production environments.
• Experience with managing large software systems (Python, C++)

What Success Looks Like

• Core AIMS components are reliable, scalable, and operable in real customer and internal data center deployments.
• Operators can confidently manage AI infrastructure through intuitive UIs and automated lifecycle workflows.
• The Principal Engineer is recognized as a go-to technical owner for critical AIMS functionality.

What's On Offer

• Apart from working with great people, we offer the below:
• Salary including housing & transport allowance
• Stock (RSU's) and performance related bonus
• 16 weeks fully paid Maternity Leave
• 6 weeks fully paid Paternity Leave
• Employee stock purchase scheme

• Child Education Allowance

• Relocation and immigration support (if needed)
• Life and Medical Insurance
• Live+ Well Reimbursement for health and recreational membership fees

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

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• PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• 4+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
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