Lead AI Engineer, UAE

Lab49is an NYC-based award-winning global specialist consultancy thatcreates bespoke technology.

Lab49is hiring aLead AI Engineerfor an exciting opportunity in one of the worlds most dynamic business is a chance to join a pioneering team that is setting new benchmarks in the use of agentic AI prompt-driven UIs and LLM-powered services for a high-impact B2C client in Dubai.

JOB SUMMARY:As a Lead AI Engineer you will play a pivotal role in the design and implementation of a complex agentic AIbased solution for a major B2C company in Dubai a market leader in its sector.The platform will deliver omni-channel prompt-driven AI services leveraging LLMs agentic orchestration retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and tight integration with the clients existing digital and enterprise systems.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Solution Design:

• Drive the architecture and solution design for the AI platform ensuring it meets business performance and scalability requirements

• Design patterns for prompt-driven UI generation long-term memory usage and multi-agent collaboration

• Select appropriate frameworks and orchestrators (e.g. LangChain LangGraph CrewAI Agno) based on project needs

• Application Development:

• Build and maintain production-grade agentic AI services in Python

• Own integration patterns between schema-rendered UI prompt handling and inference pipelines

• Implement APIs and backend components to interface with LLMs memory stores external tools and enterprise systems

• Develop and integrate RAG pipelines vector stores and structured output parsing

• Contribute to re-usable libraries and accelerators

• Write clean testable code and ensure robust CI/CD and deployment pipelines are in place

• Technical Leadership:

• Provide technical guidance to junior and mid-level developers

• Conduct code reviews and maintaining high standards of software quality

• Collaborate closely with product managers front-end developers and Lab49s and Clients architecture and QA teams

• Stay current with the rapidly evolving LLM landscape and proactively suggest innovations

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:

• Required experience and skills:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field. Masters degree is preferred

• 5 to 10 years of hands-on software engineering experience

• Strong expertise in Python and modern backend development practices

• At least 2 years implementing LLM and Agentic AI solutions

• Proven delivery of production-grade conversational AI platforms or prompt-native experiences (e.g. chatbots voice assistants agentic workflows)

• Solid understanding of cloud-native AI services preferably on AWS

• Experience working in an agile product-oriented delivery environment

• Desired experience and skills:

• Experience with RAG architectures information extraction and vector databases is desirable

• Experience with Agno is a strong plus.

*Details of the hybrid model:theteam normally meets for 2 days a week in the office client work may require more presence on the client premises especially during the integration testing and release phases of a projectWe may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

Key Skills

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Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1