Senior AI Software Engineer Onsite In Riyadh- Octopus by RTG

Overview

Senior AI Software Engineer onsite in Riyadh – Octopus by RTG. Octopus by RTG is enabling a key partner organization to grow their tech teams while focusing on AI. We are currently looking for the right pioneers to join the team!

Role Summary

A Senior Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience building AI-powered applications. Works under the Principal Data & AI Delivery Lead to translate strategy into robust software solutions. Responsible for designing and shipping model-backed features, high-quality APIs, and user-facing services with strong security, reliability, and performance. Experience in public sector or other regulated domains is a plus.

Core Responsibilities

• Delivery Execution : Design and implement backend services and APIs that integrate AI capabilities; apply suitable architectural patterns; follow coding standards with peer reviews.
• Model Serving & Inference : Package models as services, optimize latency and throughput, and apply safe rollout strategies such as canary releases and A / B testing.
• Retrieval & Context : Enable semantic search and assistant features using embeddings, vector search, and prompt orchestration where appropriate.
• Client Integration : Define clear API contracts and lightweight SDKs; collaborate with web and mobile teams to deliver end-to-end features.
• Security & Privacy : Implement authentication, authorization, encryption at rest and in transit, secrets management, and responsible handling of personal data; align with governance controls.
• Observability & Reliability : Instrument services with metrics, logs, and traces; define service objectives and alerts; participate in incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Continuous Delivery & Platform Engineering : Use containerization, orchestration, infrastructure as code, and automated pipelines for build, test, and deployment with environment promotion.
• Testing : Write unit, integration, contract, and performance tests; mock or stub model endpoints to ensure repeatable test runs.
• Documentation & Knowledge Sharing : Produce technical documentation, diagrams, and runbooks; contribute to reusable components, patterns, and templates.
• Pilot & Scale Support : Support controlled pilots, gather feedback, harden services for production scale, and hand over cleanly to operations.

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