AI-Driven Principal Engineer for CXI & Platform Scale

Grab

Singapore

On-site

SGD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex benefits

Parental leave

Birthday leave

LASA volunteering leave

Grabber Assistance Programme

FlexWork arrangements

Job summary

Grab is seeking a Principal Engineer to join the Consumer Experience & Integrity (CXI) team as a senior individual contributor with an organization-wide mandate: transform how we engineer with AI, raise the architectural bar for large-scale distributed systems, and create common platforms that enable teams to move faster with greater autonomy.

You will partner with senior engineers, engineering leaders, product leaders, and data scientists to drive technical direction across CXI through

Qualifications

15+ years in software engineering and system design.
5+ years in principal engineer or architect roles.
Hands-on experience driving AI-enabled engineering transformation.
Architected and scaled large distributed systems serving millions of users.
Led shared platform capabilities across products and teams.
Led cross-team architectural initiatives.
Experience engaging with AI tools to enhance productivity.

Responsibilities

Lead CXI's shift to AI-native engineering across the lifecycle from requirements to deployment.
Provide architectural leadership for high-throughput, reliable distributed systems.
Identify shared platform primitives across Grab's ecosystem to boost velocity.
Establish reference architectures and guardrails to enable autonomous teams with coherence.
Advise CXI leadership on long-term technical strategy and standards.