Job Description

Job Information


Job Opening ID


ZR_2120_JOB
Date Opened


22/09/2025
Industry


Engineering
Job Type


Full time
City


Dubai
Province


-
Country


United Arab Emirates
Postal Code


-




Deriv is an AI-first company, transforming trading through cutting-edge technology. We are seeking a highly skilled Applied AI Engineer to join our dynamic team. You will play a key role in designing, developing, and deploying AI-driven solutions that power our internal tools, marketing automation, and security infrastructure.

AI is being embedded into our company DNA, across every department. For further information, please read our guide: 'AI at Deriv:How we're transforming fintech with AI'.

Your challenges:

AI Solution Development


Design, build, and operate agentic LLM applications with tool-use/function calling, planning, memory, and structured outputs with versioned prompts. Implement RAG pipelines (hybrid dense+sparse retrieval, reranking); manage vector indices and the embedding lifecycle. Integrate models with internal services and third-party APIs via tool adapters; enforce schema contracts and access controls. Lead feature work in recommendation/ranking, content generation/editing, and workflow orchestration backed by measurable eval metrics.

Security & Automation

Build AI-driven security automations: classifiers/anomaly detectors, red-teaming harnesses, and (where appropriate) autonomous testing agents. Implement safety & privacy controls: prompt-injection/jailbreak defenses, PII redaction, policy filtering, and auditability. Stand up real-time tracing & alerts on token/latency/cost, retrieval degradation, drift, and hallucination risk.

Project & Task Management

Own model/prompt/agent versioning and ship via CI/CD with canaries/A-B, rollback plans, and clear SLOs (quality, latency, cost). Evolve workflows: PR-based changes to prompts/configs, experiment tracking, concise design docs, and ADRs (decision records).

Quality Assurance & Code Review

Enforce evaluation-first development: golden sets, synthetic probes, regression tests for prompts, grounding/faithfulness checks. Review for determinism, observability, and reproducibility; address tech debt with a bias to stability and measured impact.

Collaboration & Mentorship

Partner with platform/data teams on data contracts, retrieval standards, and tenancy/access control. Mentor peers on agent patterns, RAG, prompt engineering, and safe rollout; lead design reviews and share practical research findings.

Continuous Improvement

Benchmark and integrate new model families/tools via standardized bake-offs; report quality-latency-cost trade-offs. Optimize serving with adapters/LoRA, distillation/quantization, routing/caching/speculative decoding; right-size infra for cost/perf. Track industry and research trends; convert into pragmatic, incremental stack upgrades.

Requirements:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. Strong programming skills in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages. Experience with AI/ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Hugging Face). Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes). Solid understanding of security best practices and experience with security automation is a plus. Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills. Experience with task management and code collaboration tools (GitHub, Jira, ClickUp, etc.). Ability to work independently and as part of a fast-paced, collaborative team.

Nice to Have

Experience in AI/ML engineering, with a proven track record of delivering production-grade solutions. Experience with marketing automation, content generation, or design systems. Familiarity with Figma, Supabase, or similar platforms. Contributions to open source AI/security projects. Prior experience in a high-growth tech or fintech environment.

Benefits

We pay competitive salaries based on your skills, qualifications, experience and market rates. Additionally, you'll be eligible for an annual bonus based on individual and company performance.

When you join Deriv, you will be supported in growing your career in our company. You can expect to have a personalised Learning and Development programme as well as the costs covered for relevant professional development and education related to advancing your career at Deriv.

You'll be based at our modern office in Dubai's prestigious Business Bay, a key centre for Deriv's Middle Eastern operations. Our Dubai office is home to over 200 talented professionals from diverse nationalities, creating a truly global workplace. You'll thrive in an expat-friendly environment that celebrates diversity and encourages cross-cultural collaboration, with regular knowledge-sharing sessions and team events.

Dubai's position as a global business hub, combined with its tax-free benefits, ultramodern lifestyle, and family-friendly environment with excellent schools and healthcare, creates the perfect setting for international professionals. Join us in Dubai to shape the future of online trading while experiencing life in one of the world's most dynamic and cosmopolitan cities.

Our culture is unique, and we live by our values and leadership principles, so it's worth learning more about Deriv's culture.

Deriv is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We take pride in our Great Place to Work and IIP Platinum certifications, which reflect our commitment to creating an exceptional work environment. Join us and help build the future of online trading while working alongside top talent from over 96 nationalities.