The Greater Change

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**Job Title** **Backend AI Developer (Smart Home & Agentic Systems)** **About The Client** Our client is a Dubai-based real estate developer building technology-led, future-ready living environments. They combine design, advanced engineering and intelligent systems to create smarter homes and communities. Innovation, local-first AI and data-driven living sit at the core of how they build. They are now establishing a specialist engineering team to bring agentic intelligence into the physical home. **Role Overview** We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Backend AI Developer to lead the design, development and orchestration of our next-generation agentic smart home platform. In this role, you will bridge the gap between physical smart home hardware, modern local data lakes, and cutting-edge local and cloud AI models. You will be responsible for creating autonomous, context-aware digital twins and agentic assistants that make spaces truly intelligent. If you are passionate about local-first AI, edge computing, smart home automation, and rapid prototyping workflows using modern AI-augmented coding tools, this role is designed for you. **Technical Stack & Ecosystem** * AI & Agents: OpenClaw, Nous Hermes (LLMs), ElevenLabs (voice synthesis), vision frameworks (OpenCV, Vision LLMs), Claude, Cursor, Ollama, LMStudio, OpenCode * Smart Home: Home Assistant (custom integrations, Assist pipeline, WebSocket APIs, AppDaemon) * Languages: Python (core backend), React JS (dashboard and control interfaces), TypeScript * Data Engineering: DuckDB, Apache Parquet (local analytical data lakes) * Infrastructure: Docker, Proxmox VE (LXC, VM provisioning, GPU passthrough), Linux systems **Key Responsibilities** * AI & Agentic Orchestration * Design, deploy and refine multi-agent systems using frameworks like OpenClaw and open-source models like Hermes, running locally via Ollama or LMStudio * Integrate multi-modal vision frameworks (e.g., OpenCV, vision-capable LLMs) to process security cameras, identify contextual events and generate real-time situational awareness * Implement lifelike, low-latency conversational voice interfaces using ElevenLabs APIs and streaming audio pipelines * Leverage AI-assisted coding tools like Cursor and Claude to accelerate engineering velocity and maintain high-quality code * Smart Home Automation & Integration * Build deep integrations and custom components for Home Assistant to orchestrate sensors, switches, climate control and media devices * Extend Home Assistant's native Assist pipeline, or develop standalone custom agents that interact natively with the home's state * Work with real-time communication protocols, including MQTT, WebSockets and HTTP REST APIs * Local Data Lake & Engineering * Architect a local, high-performance data lake using DuckDB and Parquet to ingest, store and analyze thousands of sensor data points and telemetry events * Implement analysis pipelines to detect anomalies, optimize energy usage and predict environmental and behavioral trends * Create vector databases and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) indices to feed local, home-specific context directly into agent memory * Infrastructure & DevOps * Manage a self-hosted server environment virtualized under Proxmox VE, utilizing LXC containers and VMs * Containerize applications using Docker and manage multi-container orchestration * Configure hardware passthrough (e.g., GPU passthrough for local LLM inference, Coral USB TPU for vision processing) * Frontend & UI Support * Develop clean, high-performance, responsive custom dashboards and configuration portals in React JS to visualize agent states, telemetry and system controls **Requirements** **Required Experience & Skills** * Experience: 3+ years of professional software development experience, with a heavy focus on AI integration, backend architecture and/or IoT * Agentic System Expertise: Proven track record of building autonomous systems (multi-agent orchestration, tool-use/function-calling, RAG and memory management) * Core Languages: Deep expertise in Python (asyncio, FastAPI, Pydantic) and comfort with React JS for building functional user interfaces * Infrastructure Mindset: Strong competency in self-hosting, Linux administration and virtualization using Docker and Proxmox VE * Data Savvy: Experience working with modern analytical file formats (Parquet) and databases (DuckDB) for high-performance data processing * AI Tooling Fluent: Active user of AI-augmented development environments (Cursor, Claude, OpenCode tools) to maximize engineering velocity **Preferred / Bonus Qualifications** * Active contributions to open-source projects, particularly in the Home Assistant, Ollama, OpenClaw or agentic AI ecosystems * Hands-on experience with hardware protocols: Zigbee, Z-Wave, ESPHome, or custom PCB/microcontroller programming * Advanced knowledge of edge AI deployment, quantization and local model tuning **Why Join Us** * State-of-the-Art Work: Work at the cutting edge of local-first AI and agentic systems * Ownership: Complete autonomy over the software and hardware stack * Innovation-First: A culture that encourages experimentation, self-hosting and pushing the boundaries of what home intelligence means **Benefits** **Compensation & Benefits** * Competitive Tax-Free Salary: A market-leading monthly package in AED, commensurate with experience * Performance Incentives: Rewards linked to quality and delivery outcomes, subject to Company Internal Policy * Visa & Medical Insurance: Full UAE visa sponsorship and comprehensive health cover * Paid Leave: As per Company Internal Policy and UAE Labour Law * Annual Flight Ticket & End-of-Service Gratuity: As per UAE market practice and Labour Law * Top-Tier Tooling: Modern hardware, local GPU infrastructure and AI-augmented development tools * Learning & Career Growth: Certification and conference support, with a clear path to leadership * Autonomy & Impact: Own the platform from the ground up and shape how AI is deployed in the physical home