Senior Machine Learning Engineer (MLOps & LLMs)

Senior Machine Learning Engineer (MLOps & LLMs) — Abu Dhabi or Dubai

I'm partnering with a fast-growing AI company in the UAE that's building enterprise-grade products on top of frontier large language models. They're scaling their engineering team this year and looking for a senior ML engineer who wants to take cutting-edge AI from research into real production systems.

This is a hands-on role for someone who has built and shipped LLM-powered applications, not just trained models in a notebook.

What you'll be doing:

• Developing, fine-tuning, and deploying ML models that power live AI products
• Working with LLMs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) on real business problems
• Building and maintaining robust data preprocessing pipelines
• Monitoring and continuously improving models against real-world performance
• Partnering with stakeholders to turn business challenges into ML solutions

What you'll bring:

• Master's or PhD in AI, Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics or similar
• 5+ years in ML, Data Science, RL or a related field
• Hands-on experience with LLMs and parameter-efficient fine-tuning (LoRA, QLoRA)
• Strong Python. Competitive coding background a plus (Kaggle, ACM/ICPC, TopCoder)

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• Experience deploying LLM apps with FastAPI/Flask, plus Streamlit for front ends
• Solid grasp of REST, HTTP methods, websockets, API lifecycle
• ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn) and LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex
• SQL/NoSQL (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis) and vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector)

Relocation supported for the right candidate. Genuinely interesting work with a team operating at the frontier of applied AI in the region.

If this is you, or you know someone, drop me a message or apply.