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AI Native Software Engineer

Unlock employer Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Posted: 16 Apr 2026

Financial

  • Estimate: $80k - $120k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Hybrid
  • Apply from abroad
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Intermediate
  • English: Professional

Position

We are a forward-thinking services company at the forefront of AI-native innovation. Our engineers embed deeply with customers, moving projects beyond experimentation into operational reality. You are an AI Native Engineer with a strong foundation in building cloud-native solutions and hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic systems, especially for enterprise environments. You’re a critical thinker who thrives in ambiguity, delivering concrete results by designing, building, and running AI agents that augment workflows and scale across modern infrastructure. You'll shape how enterprises adopt AI-native engineering - either by leading complex agentic solutions and developing engineering talent, or by owning critical technical areas end-to-end as a senior IC.

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Responsibilities

  • Partner directly with client stakeholders — acting as both technologist and trusted advisor.
  • Define use cases, rapidly prototype, and deploy agentic workflows that are robust, secure, and operational in complex enterprise domains.
  • Design and build enterprise-ready AI agents incorporating retrieval, orchestration, policy-based routing, tool invocation, evaluation harnesses, and lifecycle observability.
  • Implement resilient, testable, and maintainable agentic workflows that can be iterated on quickly.
  • Develop and/or extend abstraction layers across AI providers to enable seamless integration and multi-provider enablement.
  • Tailor and deploy agentic applications across verticals, adapting to domain-specific processes and constraints.
  • Participate in and/or lead design workshops, POCs, and code-with sessions to shape data-driven agent workflows with stakeholders.
  • Define and use key metrics, test harnesses, and evaluation plans to measure agent accuracy, latency, safety, and cost effectiveness.
  • Travel may be required for this role, varying from 25% to 75% depending on business need and client requirements.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 3 years of engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless).
  • Minimum of 1 year of hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic solutions in production or near-production environments.
  • Minimum of 1 year of experience with modern AI platforms — OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, or open-source models.
  • Strong Python, Java or equivalent experience building 12 factor applications + Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm).
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent OR equivalent work experience (minimum 12 years).

Location
Abu Dhabi

Additional Information
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