Senior AI Architect for Government & Enterprise Systems

YTL AI Labs; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

YTL AI Labs is seeking a Principal AI Engineer to serve as the senior technical authority for AI systems delivered to government and major enterprise clients. You will design, review, and guide production-grade AI architectures, ensuring security, scalability, cost-efficiency, and compliance for high-scrutiny environments.

You will collaborate with the Head of AI Engineering and platform teams to standardize deployments across ministries and Tier-1 enterprises, ensuring reliable real-world

Qualifications

• Experience delivering systems in government, regulated, or high-availability enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience with Python, Node.js, or similar languages.
• Familiarity with LLM inference APIs and AI infrastructure, observability, and MLOps practices.
• Ability to work with cross-functional delivery teams (solution architects, security, compliance).

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical authority for AI system design across government and enterprise deployments.
• Architect and review end-to-end AI systems, including LLM integration, prompting strategies, RAG pipelines, vector search, and agent workflows.
• Define and enforce engineering standards and patterns for AI platforms and services.
• Lead complex technical problem-solving across performance, reliability, and cost optimization.
• Partner with solution architecture & delivery teams to translate requirements into deployable technical designs.
• Support production readiness through design reviews, testing strategies, observability, and failure analysis.
• Provide technical mentorship to senior and mid-level engineers.
• Contribute to security, data governance, and compliance-by-design for AI systems.
• Communicate technical risks and trade-offs clearly to engineering leads and stakeholders.

Skills

Python

Node.js

LLM APIs

MLOps

AI architecture

Job description

YTL AI Labs is seeking a Principal AI Engineer to serve as the senior technical authority for AI systems delivered to government and major enterprise clients. You will design, review, and guide production-grade AI architectures, ensuring security, scalability, cost-efficiency, and compliance for high-scrutiny environments.

You will collaborate with the Head of AI Engineering and platform teams to standardize deployments across ministries and Tier-1 enterprises, ensuring reliable real-world