Confidential (established Saudi engineering & industrial services group, building a new in-house AI unit)

Confidential (established Saudi engineering & industrial services group, building a new in-house AI unit) | Senior AI/ML Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer | Khobar, Saudi Arabia | ONSITE, full-time | Relocation + visa provided | Saudi nationals preferred We're founding an in-house AI unit and hiring its first two engineers. You'd work directly with the unit's head and shape how it's built from day one.

Software work

LLMs, data, APIs and the systems around them.

Senior AI/ML Engineer

LLM assistants and agents over real company data, Arabic and Saudi-dialect language work, a proper evaluation practice, and open-weight models on our own hardware. The unit publishes research, with the opportunity to co-author. Senior Backend Engineer: the services and integrations connecting AI to enterprise systems and operational data, on a modern serverless stack. Reliability, security and clean data are the job. Package: competitive salary, housing and transport allowances, family medical insurance, annual flights. Apply at https://zalvi.app , a short game-like screening assessment we built ourselves (English or Arabic). Shortlisted applicants move to the next stage.