AI Engineer - Data-Driven Solutions Lead

Ministry of Defence of Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Ministry of Defence of Singapore is seeking a data science and AI engineering professional to lead projects across policy, operations, and resource management. You will collaborate with business and technical counterparts to co-create AI solutions while promoting responsible AI and knowledge sharing within the central AI team.

You will work on end-to-end AI initiatives, translating insights into actionable recommendations with rigorous data practices and effective communication to senior

Qualifications

• Education in Statistics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Operations Research, or a related field.
• At least 1 year of work experience in data science, AI, or AI engineering roles preferred.
• Experience with large language models (LLMs), agentic AI frameworks, and design patterns is advantageous.
• Experience with model deployment and MLOps on commercial cloud platforms is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver data science and AI engineering projects across the full lifecycle, from conceptualisation to deployment and stakeholder communication.
• Design, develop, and deploy AI solutions translating insights into actionable recommendations or automated interventions.
• Identify AI use cases with business partners and build proofs-of-concept to demonstrate feasibility and value.
• Uphold standards across data prep, modelling, versioning, deployment, and monitoring; explore new techniques to improve performance.
• Document technical efforts and prepare details on methods, parameters, deployment configurations, and validation steps.
• Organise knowledge sharing sessions for data science and AI practitioners within MINDEF/SAF.

Skills

Communication skills

Teamwork / Collaboration

Problem solving

Curiosity / Creativity

Education

Statistics / ML / CS / OR or related field

Tools

Python

R

SQL

PyTorch

TensorFlow

MLOps

Job description

Ministry of Defence of Singapore is seeking a data science and AI engineering professional to lead projects across policy, operations, and resource management. You will collaborate with business and technical counterparts to co-create AI solutions while promoting responsible AI and knowledge sharing within the central AI team.

You will work on end-to-end AI initiatives, translating insights into actionable recommendations with rigorous data practices and effective communication to senior