Senior AI Forward Deployed Engineer

Job Description Roles & Responsibilities Senior, hands-on engineer who ships, with recent production AI delivery experience. Production LLM and agentic AI: RAG, orchestration and multi-step agent workflows. MLOps depth: CI/CD, model registries, monitoring and evaluation pipelines. Strong Python and modern software-engineering practice. Consulting-adjacent skills to work with non-technical operational stakeholders, identify the real problem and manage delivery end to end. Self-driven with minimal direction: scope the work, set the plan and drive it to production without waiting for a brief. Technical leadership without formal authority across engineers, analysts and operational staff; ability to set adopted standards and influence senior stakeholders. Strong product mindset: user feedback, feature prioritization, technical trade-offs and adoption. Deep AI evaluation expertise: groundedness, hallucination detection, task success, latency, safety, business KPIs, A/B testing and continuous regression testing. Production AI cost optimization: model selection/routing, prompt and token optimization, caching and inference-cost management. Desired Candidate Profile Bachelor's in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field. 5+ years of hands-on experience in deploying and managing AI/ML models in production environments. Domain exposure to container terminals, maritime logistics, free zones or freight operations, including TOS data, gate and yard processes, customs/trade documentation, or warehouse/contract-logistics workflows. GCC or comparable multi-country regional experience; Arabic is a plus. Platform engineering or developer-experience background, including internal tooling adopted by other engineers. Employment Type Full Time Company Industry RecruitmentPlacement FirmExecutive Search Department / Functional Area Engineering Keywords Director Of AI EngineeringML Engineer LeadPrincipal ML EngineerAIModel MonitoringMachine LearningDeep LearningHead Of AI DeploymentAI Solutions ArchitectSenior Machine Learning SpecialistData ScienceAI Integration Engineer Get real-time job updates only on our App