AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer)

United States Digital Space LLC; Singapore; On-site; SGD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC in Singapore seeks a senior AI Engineer to join the AI Forward Deployed Engineering (AI FDE) team, delivering professional services to build and productionize first‑of‑its‑kind GenAI applications.

You will work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and developer relations, shaping strategic initiatives and presenting at conferences. The role rewards hands-on GenAI experience and ability to translate complex concepts for diverse audiences.

Qualifications

• Experience building GenAI applications with modern tooling.
• Experience deploying production-grade GenAI apps and evaluating them.
• Hands-on data science experience with common tools.
• Production-grade ML deployments on cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions using the latest techniques.
• Own production rollouts of GenAI applications.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers across domains.
• Represent the team at conferences and events.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to shape product roadmap.

Skills

GenAI experience

Deployment expertise

Data science tooling

Cloud ML deployments

Technical communication

Collaborative mindset

Spark experience

English fluency

Mandarin preferred

Education

Graduate degree

Tools

HuggingFace

LangChain

DSPy

Job description

Mission

The AI Forward Deployed Engineering (AI FDE) team is a highly specialized customer-facing AI team at the company. We deliver professional services engagements to help our customers build and productionize first‑of‑its‑kind AI applications. We work cross‑functionally to shape long-term strategic priorities and initiatives alongside engineering, product, and developer relations, as well as support internal subject matter expert (SME) teams. We view our team as an ensemble: we look for individuals with strong, unique specializations to improve the overall strength of the team. This team is the right fit for you if you love working with customers, teammates, and fueling your curiosity for the latest trends in GenAI, LLMOps, and ML more broadly.

The impact you will have

• Develop cutting‑edge GenAI solutions, incorporating the latest techniques from our Mosaic AI research to solve customer problems
• Own production rollouts of consumer and internally facing GenAI applications
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers across a variety of domains
• Present at conferences such as Data + AI Summit, recognized as a thought leader internally and externally
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with the product and engineering teams to influence priorities and shape the product roadmap

What we look for

• Experience building GenAI applications, including RAG, multi‑agent systems, Text2SQL, fine‑tuning, etc., with tools such as HuggingFace, LangChain, and DSPy
• Expertise in deploying production‑grade GenAI applications, including evaluation and optimizations
• Extensive years of hands‑on industry data science experience, leveraging common machine learning and data science tools, i.e. pandas, scikit‑learn, PyTorch, etc.
• Experience building production‑grade machine learning deployments on AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Operations Research, etc.) or equivalent practical experience
• Experience communicating and/or teaching technical concepts to non‑technical and technical audiences alike
• Passion for collaboration, life‑long learning, and driving business value through AI
• Experience using the company Intelligence Platform and Apache Spark to process large‑scale distributed datasets
• We require fluency in English and have a preference for candidates who also speak Mandarin

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At the company, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at the company are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio‑economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

Compliance

If access to export‑controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.