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AI Engineer (6 months contract) Digital, Technology & Data · Abu Dhabi

Contango · Remote (US) · Remote

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About Contango

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About the role

We are seeking an experienced AI Engineer to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI systems — primarily LLM-powered applications, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows — that solve real client business problems in the UAE. The role combines applied AI expertise with solid software and data engineering foundations, with hands-on ownership from prototype to production and hypercare.

More about this role

Contract duration: 6 months (with a potential extension)

Engagement Type: Full-time

Start date: August/September 2026

We are seeking an experienced AI Engineer to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI systems — primarily LLM-powered applications, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows — that solve real client business problems in the UAE. The role combines applied AI expertise with solid software and data engineering foundations, with hands-on ownership from prototype to production and hypercare.

Key Responsibilities

Design and deliver end-to-end LLM applications: scope the use case, build, evaluate, deploy, and hand over reliable, observable services.

Build and optimize RAG pipelines: data parsing, ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector search, re-ranking, and context-window optimization.

Design and orchestrate agentic workflows for reasoning, planning, and task execution.

Build evaluation and observability: define metrics (accuracy, latency, cost-per-task), run eval pipelines, and monitor systems in production.

Integrate AI components into client applications via secure backend APIs; collaborate with data, software, and DevSecOps teams.

Engineer the supporting data layer:...

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