AI Technical Lead

Businesslist; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Businesslist is seeking an AI Technical Lead in Malaysia to drive design, architecture and delivery of enterprise AI solutions for Payroll and HR systems. This role demands strategic technical leadership, hands-on AI engineering, and collaboration with product teams to craft AI-powered features that scale across SaaS platforms.

The candidate will mentor engineers, set engineering standards, and explore cutting-edge AI technologies.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2+ years hands-on AI/LLM engineering experience.
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define AI roadmap for Payroll and HR products.
• Identify opportunities to introduce AI into workflows.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to design AI-powered features.
• Translate business requirements into scalable AI solutions.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and recommend adoption strategies.
• Lead AI engineering projects from concept to production.
• Mentor software engineers and AI developers.
• Conduct architecture reviews.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Architectural design

Tools

OpenAI API

Azure OpenAI

LangChain

LangGraph

LlamaIndex

AI Agents

Function Calling

Tool Calling

Prompt Engineering

RAG

Embeddings

Semantic Search

Vector Search

Pinecone

Weaviate

Milvus

Chroma

pgvector

Qdrant

Job description

AI Technical Lead

Reports To: Director
Employment Type: Full-Time
Location: Mutiara Damansara, Petaling Jaya

About the Role

This is a strategic technical leadership role responsible for designing, architecting and implementing enterprise-grade AI solutions that improve business productivity.

Key Responsibilities

AI Product Strategy

• Define the AI roadmap for Payroll and HR products.
• Identify opportunities to introduce AI into existing business workflows.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to design AI-powered features.
• Translate business requirements into scalable AI solutions.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and recommend adoption strategies.

AI Architecture & System Design

• Design enterprise AI architecture for SaaS platforms.
• Architect scalable AI microservices.
• Design AI orchestration layers and workflow engines.
• Create secure and maintainable AI system architecture.
• Design multi-tenant AI services.
• Ensure AI solutions meet enterprise security, compliance, and scalability requirements.

Large Language Model (LLM) Development

Design and implement solutions using:

• OpenAI API
• Azure OpenAI
• GPT Models
• AI Assistants
• AI Copilots
• Enterprise Chatbots

Responsibilities include:

• AI Chat implementation
• AI Prompt Engineering
• Context Management
• Conversation Memory
• AI Guardrails
• AI Safety
• Model Evaluation

AI Function Calling & Tool Integration

Design intelligent AI capable of interacting with business systems through Function Calling.

Examples include:

• Generate payroll reports
• Calculate payroll
• Submit leave applications
• Approve claimsRetrieve employee information
• Generate HR letters
• Create payslips
• Execute payroll workflows
• Call internal REST APIs
• Connect with ERP systems

AI Agents & Workflow Automation

Design and implement AI Agents capable of:

• Multi-step reasoning
• Workflow orchestration
• Tool selection
• API integration
• Business process automation

Build intelligent workflows for:

• Payroll Processing
• Leave Management
• Claims Processing
• Employee Self-Service
• HR Operations
• Compliance Checking
• Policy Guidance
• Knowledge Search
• Document Generation
• Report Automation

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Design enterprise knowledge solutions using:

• Company policies
• Payroll regulations
• HR documents
• SOPs
• Internal documentation
• Knowledge base articles

Responsibilities include:

• Document ingestion
• Embedding pipelines
• Vector databases
• Semantic Search
• Knowledge retrieval
• AI answer generation

Technical Leadership

• Lead AI engineering projects from concept to production.
• Mentor software engineers and AI developers.
• Conduct architecture reviews.
• Establish engineering standards and best practices.
• Drive technical innovation.
• Collaborate across Engineering, Product, and Business teams.

Qualifications

Minimum 2+ years of hands-on AI / LLM engineering experience.

Candidates should be able to convert business requirements into scalable AI solutions.

AI & LLM

• OpenAI API
• Azure OpenAI
• LangChain
• LangGraph
• LlamaIndex
• AI Agents
• Function Calling
• Tool Calling
• Prompt Engineering
• RAG
• Embeddings
• Semantic Search
• Vector Search

Vector Databases

• Pinecone
• Weaviate
• Milvus
• Chroma
• pgvector
• Qdrant

AI Architecture

Strong understanding of:

• Agentic AI
• Multi-Agent Systems
• AI Workflow Design
• AI Memory
• AI Planning
• Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• Context Engineering
• Prompt Optimization

Preferred Experience

Experience designing AI solutions including:

• AI Chat
• AI Copilot
• AI Search
• AI Automation
• AI Workflow Engine
• AI Document Intelligence
• AI Knowledge Base
• AI Customer Support
• Enterprise AI Platform

Sub Specialization : Information Technology;Others Type of Employment : Permanent Minimum Experience : 3 Years Work Location : Selangor