Senior AI Engineer

About
Technology Innovation Institute (TII) is a publicly funded research institute, based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. We are seeking a highly skilled Senior AI Engineer with deep expertise in Large Language Models (LLMs), Vision-Language Models (VLMs), and agentic model architectures. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in both research and engineering, with hands-on experience developing, fine-tuning, and deploying advanced AI systems. You will contribute to building scalable, production-ready AI applications, integrating multimodal reasoning, and pushing the boundaries of autonomous intelligent agents.

Key Responsibilities

• LLM/VLM Development & Integration: Design, train, fine-tune, and optimize LLMs and VLMs for real-world applications.
• Agentic AI Systems: Develop and orchestrate autonomous agent frameworks capable of multi-step reasoning, planning, and tool use.
• Engineering & Deployment: Build scalable, low-latency inference systems for large models using frameworks like DeepSpeed, vLLM, TensorRT, or ONNX Runtime. Implement distributed training, model parallelism, and efficient inference pipelines; optimize deployment for edge devices, GPUs, and cloud-based platforms.
• Research & Innovation: Stay up to date with the latest advancements in LLMs, multimodal models, and autonomous agents.

Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, AI/ML, Robotics, or related field.
• Proven track record of hands-on work with LLMs, VLMs, or agentic frameworks.
• Experience in productionizing AI systems at scale.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred (Nice-to-Have)

• Experience with reinforcement learning.
• Background in robotics, simulation environments, or embodied AI.
• Publications in AI conferences.