AI Engineer — Deliver End-to-End AI Solutions

Ministry of Defence of Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

MINDEF/SAF seeks a data science and AI engineering professional to lead projects across policy, operations, and resource management. You will work within the central AI team, collaborating with business and technical partners to co-create AI solutions while building capability through knowledge sharing and best practices in responsible AI adoption.

You will drive end-to-end projects from data prep to deployment, translate insights into actionable decisions, and maintain rigorous standards in

Qualifications

• Education in Statistics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Operations Research, or a related field.
• At least 1 year of work experience in a data science, AI, or AI engineering role preferred.
• Experience with developing applications using large language models (LLMs), agentic AI frameworks, and design patterns is advantageous.
• Experience in model deployment and MLOps on commercial cloud platforms is advantageous.
• Familiarity with Python, R, or SQL, and libraries/frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Curious, creative, and detail-oriented problem solver.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver data science and AI engineering projects across the full lifecycle from conceptualisation to deployment and results 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 rigorous standards for data prep, modelling, versioning, deployment, and monitoring, while exploring new techniques to improve performance.
• Document technical efforts, including methods, parameters, deployment configs, and validation steps.
• Organise knowledge sharing sessions for data science and AI practitioners within MINDEF/SAF.

Skills

Data science

Communication

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Curiosity

Education

Statistics/ML/CS/OR related field

Tools

Python

R

SQL

PyTorch

TensorFlow

LLMs

Agentic AI frameworks

MLOps on cloud

Job description

MINDEF/SAF seeks a data science and AI engineering professional to lead projects across policy, operations, and resource management. You will work within the central AI team, collaborating with business and technical partners to co-create AI solutions while building capability through knowledge sharing and best practices in responsible AI adoption.

You will drive end-to-end projects from data prep to deployment, translate insights into actionable decisions, and maintain rigorous standards in