Senior Applied AI Engineer — AI-Native Backend & Systems

Ant Group; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Ant International's Malaysia Tech Center is advancing cross-border payments and AI-driven infrastructure. As an AI Engineer, you will own end-to-end product engineering delivery in an AI-native environment, collaborating with AI agents throughout the delivery lifecycle while ensuring correctness, security, reliability and business outcomes.

You will guide other engineers through technical decisions, define quality and release approaches, and help shape scalable backend services across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong programming and system-design skills, with a track record of owning complex backend systems or major product capabilities.
• Proven ability to deliver complex software from ambiguous requirements through production operation and continuous improvement.
• Experience guiding other engineers to make sound technical trade-offs, and driving delivery across teams or business domains.
• Experience establishing AI-native engineering workflows, guardrails, and evaluation practices at team level.
• Experience defining quality strategies, test automation, release controls, and production feedback loops.
• Sound understanding of distributed systems and high-concurrency design principles; direct high-concurrency production experience is not mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Own complex or cross-domain initiatives, turning ambiguous business needs into reliable production outcomes.
• Design and evolve critical backend services and integrations, balancing security, scalability, with reliability, and maintainability.
• Define quality and release approaches, resolve complex system outages or degradations, while driving improvements that prevent recurrence.
• Establish and evolve AI-native engineering workflows, guardrails, and feedback loops that improve team delivery speed and software quality.
• Guide other engineers through technical decisions and reviews while coordinating dependencies and risks across product teams and business partners.

Job description

Ant International's Malaysia Tech Center is advancing cross-border payments and AI-driven infrastructure. As an AI Engineer, you will own end-to-end product engineering delivery in an AI-native environment, collaborating with AI agents throughout the delivery lifecycle while ensuring correctness, security, reliability and business outcomes.

You will guide other engineers through technical decisions, define quality and release approaches, and help shape scalable backend services across