AI Engineer at the QNB Center for Business Innovation – Business Administration – Carnegie Mellon Full Time Permanent

About the Job

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar is seeking an AI Engineer to develop and maintain AI-powered solutions supporting business education at the QNB Center for Business Innovation, a partnership between CMU-Q and Qatar National Bank.

Working with faculty and Center leadership, the successful candidate will deliver production-ready applications, including interactive learning environments, simulations, and decision-support tools, while supporting the Center’s technical development and innovation objectives gulf jobs.

 Include You Should Demonstrate:

• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain AI-enabled applications for business teaching and learning.
• Translate faculty requirements into practical technical specifications and solutions.
• Establish software standards with Computing Services, including centralised code management, shared AI model access, documentation, and bilingual-ready interfaces.
• Implement usage tracking to evaluate application effectiveness.
• Manage production operations, monitoring, system reliability, AI usage costs, and data security.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and provide technical input for project planning.
• Guide student developers, review their work, and prepare technical documentation, user guides, and workshops.
• Interpersonal Skills: Effective collaboration across diverse teams and professional backgrounds.
• Organization and Planning Skills: Ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
• Problem Solving and Reasoning Skills: Independent judgement, initiative, and practical problem-solving.
• Communication: Clear, professional written and verbal communication.
• Collaboration and Teamwork: Commitment to teamwork and student support.
• Adaptability: Ability to respond effectively to changing requirements.
• Attention to Detail: Consistent accuracy and quality in assigned work.

Preferred Qualifications Requirements:

• Master’s degree in a relevant discipline.
• Experience in educational technology, learning analytics, or teaching applications.
• Knowledge of LLM cost optimisation through caching, model selection, and routing.
• Experience managing concurrent users, provider rate limits, and AI service interruptions.
• Familiarity with application usage analytics and institutional integrations, including SSO and LMS/LTI.
• Experience mentoring junior developers or student staff.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 3 years of professional software development experience, including at least one LLM-based application successfully deployed for real-world use.
• Experience developing complete software products with accessible, user-friendly web interfaces.
• Practical knowledge of prompt and agent design, document and structured-data retrieval, model evaluation, and AI guardrails.
• Experience in deployment, hosting, release management, monitoring, and maintaining production systems Jobs in Qatar.
• Understanding of data protection, access control, credential security, and institutional privacy requirements.
• Ability to develop software compliant with WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards.
• Strong ability to translate non-technical requirements into workable specifications.
• Proficiency in version control, code reviews, and technical documentation.

Successful completion of a pre-employment background check is mandatory.

Applicants must submit:

1. Cover letter explaining their suitability for the position.
2. Updated curriculum vitae (CV).
3. Portfolio, repository, or evidence of deployed software, including a description of individual contributions where projects are confidential.
4. Contact details for two references.

How to Apply:

Submit your complete application through Carnegie Mellon University’s official recruitment portal.