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NLP / Arabic Language AI Engineer job description

This Arabic NLP Engineer job description is the spec our practice leads vet against: 6 responsibilities, 6 requirements, 4 nice-to-haves. Copy it, or hire a vetted specialist.

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  1. Role summary
  2. Responsibilities
  3. Requirements
  4. Nice-to-have
  5. What this role costs, by market

Role summary

We are hiring an NLP / Arabic Language AI Engineer to build language models and pipelines that work reliably in Modern Standard Arabic and Gulf dialects. You will fine-tune models, engineer Arabic text and speech pipelines, and own evaluation for accuracy, safety and cultural fit. Success means Arabic-speaking users get answers as good as English speakers, within residency rules.

Responsibilities

  1. Fine-tune open and proprietary LLMs with LoRA / PEFT on domain and dialect corpora.
  2. Build tokenisation, diacritics handling and code-switching pipelines for Arabic text.
  3. Design Arabic evaluation sets for accuracy, safety and cultural alignment.
  4. Implement Arabic speech-to-text and document understanding.
  5. Deploy and serve models under data-residency constraints.
  6. Report quality by dialect and task to product and governance stakeholders.

Requirements

  1. 4+ years in NLP or ML engineering, including Arabic language systems in production.
  2. Native or professional Arabic, plus strong English.
  3. Hands-on fine-tuning with Hugging Face and PyTorch, including LoRA / PEFT.
  4. Experience with Arabic NLP tooling such as CAMeL Tools.
  5. Evaluation design with human annotation and inter-annotator agreement.
  6. Model serving with vLLM or similar against latency targets.

Experience bands offered by Remote Pro Ai (years) Mid 2–⁠5 · Senior 5–⁠9 · Lead 9+

Nice-to-have

  1. Experience with ALLaM, Jais or Falcon models.
  2. Speech pipelines built on Whisper-family models.
  3. Government, legal or contact-centre Arabic use cases.
  4. Publications or open-source contributions in Arabic NLP.

What this role costs, by market

In-house figures are indicative annual gross salaries for a Senior-level direct hire, before employer costs such as social insurance, medical cover, visas, recruitment fees and equipment. Remote Pro Ai seats are monthly and all-inclusive. Remote Pro Ai’s base monthly rates for vetted Mid, Senior and Lead engineers are at least 30% below the median published by comparable vetted-talent vendors serving the GCC, and 37–⁠47% below the European and US medians (Remote Pro Ai price benchmark, October 2026). Design, marketing, business-development and sales seats are priced at the base band.

MarketIn-house annual gross salary (Senior)Remote Pro Ai monthly seat (Senior)
Saudi Arabia (SAR)480,000In your quote
United Arab Emirates (AED)684,000In your quote
Qatar (USD)—In your quote
United States (USD)—In your quote
Germany (EUR)—In your quote
United Kingdom (GBP)97,200In your quote

“—” means we do not yet publish an in-house benchmark for that market. Remote Pro Ai pricing is quotation-based; VAT shown separately.

GCC & Egypt Tech Talent Salary & Rate Guide 2026, Remote Pro Ai Research estimates: the midpoint of the Senior monthly gross range × 12. Benchmarks are updated every October. Updated: October 2026.

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Frequently asked questions

Yes. The text is free to copy and adapt for your own vacancy, and the DOCX download keeps the formatting. It reflects the specification our practice leads use when they vet specialists for this role, so it doubles as a scope document when you brief stakeholders, recruiters or procurement.

Each responsibility and requirement maps to something we test. Candidates complete a live technical assessment scored by a practice lead, then a client-fit interview and reference checks. 3.4% of applicants pass 5 gates, and only those specialists appear on the shortlists we send.

Pay for the same role varies widely between Riyadh, Dubai and London, and employer costs differ again. Each figure is the annualised midpoint of the Senior range in our Salary & Rate Guide, so you can compare an in-house hire with an all-inclusive Remote Pro Ai seat on equal terms. Your exact Remote Pro Ai price comes from a quotation valid for 30 days.

Often, once employer costs and time-to-hire are counted: there is no placement fee (the only optional fee is the direct-hire conversion fee, under Direct hire conversion in the MSA), and the specialist starts within 4 working days instead of after a months-long search for a permanent hire. Remote Pro Ai’s base monthly rates for vetted Mid, Senior and Lead engineers are at least 30% below the median published by comparable vetted-talent vendors serving the GCC, and 37–⁠47% below the European and US medians (Remote Pro Ai price benchmark, October 2026).

Match the level to the scope. Mid specialists deliver well-defined work inside your architecture, Senior specialists own a component end to end, and Leads set direction and run the squad. This role is offered at Mid, Senior and Lead level, and the level line under Requirements shows the bands Remote Pro Ai can staff.