Principal AI Engineer – Technical Lead

Confidential   Amman - Jordan  Date Posted: 2026/08/17   Login to Apply

Responsibilities

  • Own the overall technical architecture and engineering direction of the AI-native enterprise platform.
  • Translate business and product requirements into scalable, secure, and practical technical solutions.
  • Design and develop reusable platform capabilities across AI, backend, infrastructure, data, and enterprise integrations.
  • Lead the selection and implementation of AI models, frameworks, cloud infrastructure, and development technologies.
  • Design and implement AI solutions involving LLMs, AI agents, tool calling, RAG, and context engineering.
  • Develop and maintain secure integrations with enterprise systems, APIs, databases, and external services.
  • Establish security-by-design principles across the platform, including authentication, authorization, identity, access control, and data protection.
  • Make key technical decisions related to scalability, reliability, performance, privacy, and cybersecurity.
  • Remain hands-on by architecting, prototyping, coding, and delivering critical platform components.
  • Conduct technical architecture and code reviews while maintaining high standards for testing, documentation, quality, and maintainability.
  • Plan and oversee technical delivery across the engineering team and ensure alignment with product objectives.
  • Collaborate with enterprise stakeholders to understand technical requirements and translate business challenges into effective solutions.
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to building the future engineering team, technical culture, and development practices.

Qualifications

  • Minimum 6 years of experience in Software Engineering, AI Engineering, or a closely related technical field.
  • Proven experience designing, architecting, and delivering production-grade software and platforms.
  • Significant recent hands-on experience building and deploying AI/LLM-powered applications.
  • Strong backend and full-stack engineering experience.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Python and TypeScript.
  • Experience working with commercial and/or open-source LLMs.
  • Strong experience with AI agents, tool calling, RAG, and context engineering.
  • Strong knowledge of APIs, databases, distributed systems, and scalable software architecture.
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Proven experience taking products or platforms from 0 to 1 and bringing them into production.
  • Strong understanding of secure software architecture, secure API design, and data protection.
  • Good knowledge of authentication, authorization, identity, access control, and threat modelling.
  • Strong technical judgment with the ability to make pragmatic architecture and technology decisions.
  • Experience with enterprise cybersecurity, Zero Trust, AI security, prompt injection, or agent security is highly preferred.
  • Experience in privacy, data governance, or regulated and security-sensitive environments is a strong plus.
  • Strong business acumen and the ability to translate complex enterprise requirements into practical technical solutions.

 

Required Skills
  • Leadership
  • CI/CD
  • API Design
  • Python
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Cloud Architecture
  • AWS
  • Back-End Development
  • Typescript
  • Azure Cloud Services
  • AI
Job Details
  • Location Amman - Jordan
  • Industry Information & Communication Technologies
  • Job Type Full-Time
  • Degree Bachelor
  • Experience 6+
  • Nationality Unspecified
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