Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Staff Machine Learning EngineerLocation: Abu Dhabi (Hybrid)Type: Contract - 12 months+About the opportunityWe're partnered with a leading AI company in the UAE building agentic AI products at scale, with access to world-leading models and resources.This is a hands-on engineering role at the core of their production AI systems. You'll develop, deploy and optimise the ML and LLM-powered models that power live products used across critical sectors. Real production work, not demos or sandboxes.What you'll doDevelop, train and deploy ML models and LLM-powered systems that power live AI productsWork with state-of-the-art techniques, LLMs, RAG, and parameter-efficient fine-tuning, in real business contextsBuild and ship LLM-powered applications end-to-end, from model to deployed APIPartner with cross-functional teams to translate business challenges into production AIContinuously monitor, evaluate and optimise models against real-world performanceImplement and manage robust data pipelines for high-quality, reliable inputWhat we're looking for5+ years in ML or AI engineering with real production experienceStrong Python, with hands-on experience building and deploying LLM-powered applications (FastAPI/Flask, REST, websockets)Proven work with LLMs and parameter-efficient fine-tuning (LoRA, QLoRA), RAG, and agentic systemsExperience with modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn) and orchestration libraries (LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex)Comfortable with SQL/NoSQL and vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector) for semantic searchA track record of applying ML to real, business-critical problemsBackground we love (not required, but a strong signal):A competitive-coding background (Kaggle, ACM/ICPC, IOI, TopCoder), a strong technical degree, or experience shipping LLM products at a serious AI company.How the team worksElite environment of ex-FAANG and frontier-lab engineersWhat matters is what you ship, not the hours you spendLow ego, high standards. The best idea wins, whoever it comes fromMinimal bureaucracy, you talk to whoever you need to talk toThe setupAbu Dhabi, hybrid workingContract-based, Staff levelCompetitive ratesMoving fast, onboarding in the coming weeksInterested?Send your CV or DM me directly for a confidential conversation.