Mid-Level Artificial Intelligence Engineer

United Nations - UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia

Consultant Closes 30 May 2026 21 days left

Overview

Design, develop, and deploy production-grade agentic AI systems and LLM-powered solutions to support the Arab Development Portal and the broader DSDSD innovation mandate.


Key Responsibilities
  • Architect and implement multi-agent systems using frameworks such as LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or equivalent.
  • Design and deploy Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.
  • Implement tool-use and function-calling patterns.
  • Develop agent evaluation frameworks.
  • Integrate and benchmark state-of-the-art LLMs.
  • Apply prompt engineering, structured output generation, and chain-of-thought techniques.
  • Explore and implement fine-tuning strategies.
  • Monitor and optimize inference costs, latency, and throughput.
  • Design and implement RESTful and streaming APIs.
  • Containerize AI services using Docker.
  • Maintain documentation, versioning, and model cards.
  • Continuously monitor and evaluate emerging AI research, frameworks, and tooling.
  • Collaborate with data engineers, ML engineers, and domain experts.
  • Prepare technical reports, demonstrations, and presentations.
Required Experience
  • A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in AI/ML engineering or software engineering with a demonstrated AI focus is required.
  • Hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic systems using multi-agent frameworks (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or equivalent) is required.
  • Proficiency in Python and experience with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, or open-source alternatives via Ollama or HuggingFace) is required.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of the current LLM and AI landscape, including frontier model capabilities, benchmarks, and limitations, is required.
  • Experience with RAG architectures, vector databases (FAISS, Weaviate, Qdrant, or equivalent), and semantic search is desirable.
  • Familiarity with model fine-tuning, RLHF, and evaluation methodologies is desirable.
  • Knowledge of Arabic NLP and multilingual model handling is desirable.
Qualifications
  • A bachelor's degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, data science, or a related field is required.
  • A master's degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, data science, or a related field is desirable.
Other Details
Languages Required
Fluency in English is required.
Languages Preferred
Not specified
Contract Duration
6 months
Work Modality
Remote
Remuneration
Not specified
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