Job summary
Lucidya is hiring an AI Tech Lead in Riyadh to own the AI layer of their agentic platform. You will set technical direction, write production code, lead the AI engineering team, and ensure reliability and evaluation of LLM-based features.
Key responsibilities
- Own AI architecture: model choice, prompting, retrieval, guardrails and voice pipeline.
- Document technical decisions with clear rationale.
- Define evaluation standards and move work from experiment to production.
- Introduce testing frameworks and production monitoring for AI quality.
- Lead and mentor the AI engineering team; contribute to hiring.
- Debug critical production incidents involving AI behaviour.
- Manage prototyping and experiments for new models and agent features.
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering on requirements and shared platform work.
Requirements
- 7+ years in software or ML engineering.
- 2+ years building LLM-based applications in production.
- Technical leadership of a team of 3+ AI engineers/scientists.
- Hands-on prompting, structured outputs, guardrails and agent harnesses.
- Built LLM evaluation pipelines and used them to gate releases.
- Strong production engineering skills: Python, APIs, cloud, observability.
- Fluent written and spoken English.
Skills
PythonLLM promptingAgent patternsRetrieval designEvaluation pipelinesObservabilityAPI developmentCloud deploymentDebuggingDesign documentation
Source: Workable. Last checked as open: 14 Nov 2026. You apply directly with the employer.
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