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AI Engineer (Generative AI) job description

This AI Engineer job description is the spec our practice leads vet against: 6 responsibilities, 6 requirements, 4 nice-to-haves. Copy it, or hire a vetted specialist.

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  1. Role summary
  2. Responsibilities
  3. Requirements
  4. Nice-to-have
  5. What this role costs, by market

Role summary

We are hiring an AI Engineer (Generative AI) to design, build and run LLM-powered products on our private data. You will own retrieval pipelines, orchestration, evaluation and deployment, working closely with product, data and security teams. Success means assistants that answer accurately with citations, stay within latency and cost budgets, and pass security review before every release.

Responsibilities

  1. Design and ship RAG pipelines with chunking, hybrid search, re-ranking and citation grounding.
  2. Build orchestration with LangChain or LangGraph, function calling and structured outputs.
  3. Create offline and online evaluation using RAGAS, LLM-as-judge and human review loops.
  4. Optimise latency, token cost and caching for production-scale workloads.
  5. Harden applications against prompt injection, data leakage and abuse.
  6. Instrument live usage and iterate on quality with product and data teams.

Requirements

  1. 4+ years of software engineering, including LLM or ML features running in production.
  2. Strong Python, API design, async services and automated testing.
  3. Hands-on experience with Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock or Vertex AI.
  4. Practical use of vector stores such as pgvector, Pinecone or Weaviate.
  5. You have defined, measured and improved quality metrics for an LLM system.
  6. Working knowledge of LLM security risks, including the OWASP LLM Top 10.

Experience bands offered by Remote Pro Ai (years) Mid 4–⁠6 · Senior 6–⁠9 · Lead 9+

Nice-to-have

  1. Azure AI Engineer Associate or AWS ML Specialty certification.
  2. Arabic proficiency for bilingual assistants and evaluation sets.
  3. Delivery in regulated sectors under PDPL, SAMA or GDPR.
  4. Agent tooling such as LangGraph multi-agent flows or MCP integrations.

What this role costs, by market

In-house figures are indicative annual gross salaries for a Senior-level direct hire, before employer costs such as social insurance, medical cover, visas, recruitment fees and equipment. Remote Pro Ai seats are monthly and all-inclusive. Remote Pro Ai’s base monthly rates for vetted Mid, Senior and Lead engineers are at least 30% below the median published by comparable vetted-talent vendors serving the GCC, and 37–⁠47% below the European and US medians (Remote Pro Ai price benchmark, October 2026). Design, marketing, business-development and sales seats are priced at the base band.

Senior level
MarketCur.In-houseannual salarySeatfrom, per monthSeat × 12from, per year
Saudi ArabiaSAR480,00027,400328,800
United Arab EmiratesAED684,00026,900322,800
QatarUSD—17,31087,720
United StatesUSD—17,31087,720
GermanyEUR—16,54078,480
United KingdomGBP97,2005,54066,480

“—” means we do not yet publish an in-house benchmark for that market. Remote Pro Ai pricing is quotation-based; VAT shown separately.

GCC & Egypt Tech Talent Salary & Rate Guide 2026, Remote Pro Ai Research estimates: the midpoint of the Senior monthly gross range × 12. Benchmarks are updated every October. Updated: October 2026.

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Frequently asked questions

Yes. The text is free to copy and adapt for your own vacancy, and the DOCX download keeps the formatting. It reflects the specification our practice leads use when they vet specialists for this role, so it doubles as a scope document when you brief stakeholders, recruiters or procurement.

Each responsibility and requirement maps to something we test. Candidates complete a live technical assessment scored by a practice lead, then a client-fit interview and reference checks. 3.4% of applicants pass 5 gates, and only those specialists appear on the shortlists we send.

Pay for the same role varies widely between Riyadh, Dubai and London, and employer costs differ again. Each figure is the annualised midpoint of the Senior range in our Salary & Rate Guide, so you can compare an in-house hire with an all-inclusive Remote Pro Ai seat on equal terms. Your exact Remote Pro Ai price comes from a quotation valid for 30 days.

Often, once employer costs and time-to-hire are counted: there is no placement fee, and the specialist starts within 4 working days instead of after a months-long search for a permanent hire. Remote Pro Ai’s base monthly rates for vetted Mid, Senior and Lead engineers are at least 30% below the median published by comparable vetted-talent vendors serving the GCC, and 37–⁠47% below the European and US medians (Remote Pro Ai price benchmark, October 2026).

Match the level to the scope. Mid specialists deliver well-defined work inside your architecture, Senior specialists own a component end to end, and Leads set direction and run the squad. This role is offered at Mid, Senior and Lead level, and the level line under Requirements shows the bands Remote Pro Ai can staff.