# Senior Applied AI Engineer

**Company**: Scale
**Location**: Kuwait City
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Scale's Global Public Sector team uses AI to address critical challenges facing the public sector worldwide. As a Senior Applied AI Engineer, you will own the AI behaviour of production systems that clients depend on.

## Responsibilities

- Own the AI layer of production systems for public sector clients, including agents, model integration, and backend services.

- Build production agents from established architectural patterns with reliable tool calling, guardrails, and observability.

- Select and adapt evaluation methods, designing new evaluations for client-specific risks where needed.

- Apply techniques such as context engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, model adaptation, or inference optimisation.

- Investigate regressions, lead root-cause analysis, and implement preventative changes.

- Lead project planning and manage client expectations on scope, risk, and delivery.

- Codify recurring client work into reusable tooling, evaluation components, or guidance.

- Mentor engineers through code review, pairing, and delegated ownership.

## Requirements

- Backend engineering experience with a track record of taking AI/ML systems into production.

- Experience owning the AI behaviour of a production system end-to-end.

- Experience designing evaluations that tie model behaviour to real-world outcomes.

- Experience leading root-cause analysis on a production AI or ML system.

- Comfort working directly with clients, explaining model behaviour and trade-offs.

- Experience handling regulated or sensitive data and designing for auditability.

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## Skills

### Required
- Backend engineering
- AI/ML systems
- production deployment
- evaluation design
- root-cause analysis
- client communication
- regulated data handling

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