Job brief: Senior Applied AI Engineer

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• Listed on Scale AI's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-10 (1 day ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-10.
• The apply link opens job-boards.greenhouse.io, the address Scale AI's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: Not published
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Kuwait City, Kuwait
• Posted: 2026-11-10

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Senior. The title says "Senior".

Must have

• Your primary accountability covers production AI behaviour, its backend integration, and the evaluation required for a specific customer.

Conditions

• We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.

Main duties

• Own the AI layer of production systems for public sector clients, including agents, model integration, and the backend services they run on
• Build production agents from established architectural patterns, with reliable tool calling, guardrails, and observability
• Select and adapt established evaluation methods, and design new evaluations for client-specific risks where the use case requires them
• Apply context engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, model adaptation, or inference optimisation where the use case calls for them
• Investigate regressions in the systems you own, lead root-cause analysis, and implement preventative changes

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs across the U.S.: $152k a year (2,928 listings, 117 employers). This listing does not publish pay to compare.
• Across Scale AI's 128 open listings, 73% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Scale AI hires

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