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Devoteam

Senior AI Engineer Consultant

DevoteamΒ·about 17 hours ago

⏰ Full-time⭐ SeniorπŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦ Riyadh, South AfricaπŸ“… Oct 6, 2026

Key Responsibilities:

  • Build enterprise-grade LLM applications using techniques such as RAG, tool calling, structured generation, prompt engineering, and agentic workflows.
  • Implement and optimize LLM inference, including model serving, quantization, caching, batching, and GPU utilization where relevant.
  • Develop LLM evaluation frameworks covering accuracy, relevance, hallucination, safety, latency, and cost.
  • Work with open-source and commercial foundation models and assess their suitability for specific use cases.
  • Build reusable components for enterprise AI applications, including knowledge retrieval, model gateways, evaluation pipelines, and agent orchestration.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

  • Deploy AI/ML workloads to cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments.
  • Work with Docker, Kubernetes, GPU infrastructure, and cloud AI/ML services.
  • Implement model versioning, experiment tracking, monitoring, logging, and automated deployment pipelines.
  • Optimize AI workloads for scalability, reliability, latency, and cost.
  • Troubleshoot production AI systems and continuously improve system performance

Education: 

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Computer Information Systems (CIS), AI and Data. 

Professional Experience

  • 7+ years of experience in AI Engineering. 

  • Experience working with [Clients / Government / Consulting / GCC / Saudi market].

Soft Skills

  • Strong communication and presentation skills.

  • Strong stakeholder management and interpersonal skills.

  • Analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

  • Consulting and client-facing mindset.

  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively.

  • Strong organizational and time-management skills.

Language Requirements

  • Arabic Speakers
  • English

Location & Employment Details

  • Location: Riyadh
  • Employment Type: Full-time. 

 

Market context

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What Senior Data Science roles in Africa pay

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$54k
Median
$95k
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$128k

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