Lead Engineer - AI

Bjak Sdn Bhd; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI firm in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a founding technical leader to build, optimize, and mentor within their AI systems team. The ideal candidate will have 6+ years of engineering experience, a strong hands-on machine learning background, and proficiency in Python and another backend language. Join a high-performance team dedicated to crafting impactful consumer AI products and push the technical standards for AI development.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of engineering experience, preferably in AI.
• Strong hands-on background in machine learning.
• Experience with production-level LLM and RAG.

Responsibilities

• Design and build end-to-end AI systems.
• Develop training, inference, and evaluation pipelines.
• Optimize performance parameters of AI models.
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews.

Skills

Engineering experience

Machine learning knowledge

Production coding

Python proficiency

Backend language experience

Job description

A1 is a self-funded AI group, operating in full stealth. We're building a new global consumer AI application where the intelligence layer is core to the product, not an add-on.

This is a founding technical leadership role. You will act as the principal builder of A1's AI systems - writing production code, designing ML pipelines, and setting engineering standards while directly shaping how our AI works in the real world.

Why This Role Matters

• You define how AI systems are built at A1
• You connect data, models, evaluation, and product
• You raise the technical bar through direct contribution

What You'll Do

• Design and implement end-to-end AI systems
• Build training, inference, and evaluation pipelines
• Write production orchestration and feedback code
• Optimize latency, cost, and model quality
• Review PRs and mentor engineers

Requirements

• 6+ years engineering experience
• Strong hands-on ML background
• Production LLM / RAG experience
• Strong Python plus one backend language

Our Team & Culture

We operate as a dense, senior, high-performance team. We value clarity, speed, craftsmanship, and relentless ownership. We behave like founders - we build, ship, iterate, and hold ourselves to a high technical bar.

If you value excellence, enjoy building real systems, and want to be part of a small team creating something globally impactful, you'll thrive here.

About A1

A1 is a self-funded, independent AI group, focused on building a new consumer AI product with global impact. We're assembling a small, elite team of ML and engineering builders who want to work on meaningful, high-impact problems.