New comment by zalvi_hiring in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026)"

Confidential (established Saudi engineering & industrial services group, building a new in-house AI unit) | Senior AI/ML Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer | Khobar, Saudi Arabia | ONSITE, full-time | Relocation + visa provided | Saudi nationals preferred

We're founding an in-house AI unit and hiring its first two engineers. You'd work directly with the unit's head and shape how it's built from day one. Software work: LLMs, data, APIs and the systems around them.

Senior AI/ML Engineer: LLM assistants and agents over real company data, Arabic and Saudi-dialect language work, a proper evaluation practice, and open-weight models on our own hardware. The unit publishes research, with the opportunity to co-author.

Senior Backend Engineer: the services and integrations connecting AI to enterprise systems and operational data, on a modern serverless stack. Reliability, security and clean data are the job.

Package: competitive salary, housing and transport allowances, family medical insurance, annual flights.

Apply at https://zalvi.app, a short game-like screening assessment we built ourselves (English or Arabic). Shortlisted applicants move to the next stage.