AI Engineer for Public-Sector AI Platforms

GovTech Singapore; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Lifelong learning opportunities

Job summary

GovTech Singapore is hiring engineers to build AI-enabled products and platforms for Singapore’s public sector, including NEA. You will design, implement, and deploy AI systems that are reliable, auditable, and policy‑sensitive, collaborating with product managers, data scientists, and governance colleagues.

The role emphasizes pragmatic, durable engineering choices, secure-by-design delivery, and clear ownership from development to production and maintenance.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of relevant experience in AI, ML, data science, or software engineering.
• Completed at least one hands-on AI development and deployment end-to-end project.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: system design, testing, version control, CI/CD, observability, security.
• Good engineering judgement with ability to explain trade-offs clearly.
• Comfort with ambiguity and translating policy/operational needs into usable product.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and operate AI-enabled products and platform components across NEA.
• Work on LLM integration, agentic workflows, evaluation harnesses, observability, guardrails, model access, and memory patterns.
• Turn ambiguous operations problems into maintainable software with clear success metrics.
• Build production features for automation, tools, assistants, and deterministic/agentic workflow.
• Create reusable engineering patterns, templates, and test harnesses for product teams.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, data scientists, governance colleagues, and business owners.
• Use AI coding tools while retaining human accountability for design and quality.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, incident response, and technical decision-making.
• Push for root-cause fixes rather than surface-level patches.

Skills

AI/ML development

Software engineering fundamentals

System design

CI/CD & testing

Observability & security

Cross‑functional communication

Job description

GovTech Singapore is hiring engineers to build AI-enabled products and platforms for Singapore’s public sector, including NEA. You will design, implement, and deploy AI systems that are reliable, auditable, and policy‑sensitive, collaborating with product managers, data scientists, and governance colleagues.

The role emphasizes pragmatic, durable engineering choices, secure-by-design delivery, and clear ownership from development to production and maintenance.