AI Engineer​/Forward Deployed Engineer

Domain Rewiring means redesigning the operational domain itself — workflows, decision points, data flows and human roles — so that agentic AI becomes embedded into how work actually gets done.

The Forward Deployed Engineering team works directly inside government entities to identify, build and deploy these systems, ensuring the underlying AI platform is shaped by real operational requirements rather than developed in isolation.

• Work on complex applied AI problems. Re-engineer live government workflows and deploy agentic AI where operational decisions are actually made.
• Own outcomes, not just engineering. Define the users, workflow, success metrics and scope, then take the solution through to production and adoption.
• Small, senior teams. Work in compact squads of experienced engineers with significant autonomy and direct access to senior government stakeholders.
• Build the practice. Help establish the playbook for evaluation, AI-native software development and forward deployment, before helping grow the team around it.
• UAE-based opportunity. Relocation assistance is available for successful candidates and their families.

We are hiring a AI Engineer /
Forward Deployed Engineer to join a small team of senior engineers responsible for taking complex government domains from discovery through to production AI systems.

This is an individual contributor role first
.

You will personally own some of the organisation’s most challenging domain rewirings, working directly with users and senior stakeholders to understand how an operation works today and redesign how it should operate in an AI-native environment.

There is no traditional business analyst, product manager or architect sitting between you and the problem. You define the users, workflow, scope, success metric and value case — and then build.

You will own domain rewiring, adoption and realised business value
, while partnering with specialists across AI engineering, product engineering, platform architecture and evaluation.

As the programme grows, you may also lead a rewiring pod, hire engineers or own part of the domain portfolio. However, leadership sits alongside hands-on delivery rather than replacing it.

• Embed and define. Work directly inside government entities, understand how operations actually run and define the requirements yourself. Establish the metric, capture the baseline and agree it with the business owner before building.
• Design and ship. Architect agentic workflows spanning orchestration, retrieval, tools, agents, evaluation and human-in-the-loop processes — then write the production code.
• Navigate enterprise constraints. Take deployments through security, privacy, tenant isolation, governance and information-security reviews, creating reusable patterns for future deployments.
• Own adoption. Redesign the human process alongside the software. Success means changing how decisions are made, reducing cycle times, lowering costs or improving measurable outcomes.
• Prove value. Instrument products so their impact can be measured against an agreed baseline. Recommend scaling, redesigning or stopping initiatives based on evidence.
• Make the next deployment faster. Convert lessons from individual rewirings into reusable platform capabilities, engineering patterns and playbooks.

Indicative outcomes include:

• Delivering one lighthouse domain rewiring end-to-end within a major government entity, reaching production and demonstrating measurable improvement.
• Establishing an agreed value case and baseline with the relevant business owner and delivering the first value report.
• Contributing reusable capabilities to the underlying sovereign…