AI Platform Engineer for Public-Sector Education

GovTech Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

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Job summary

GovTech Singapore is hiring software engineers to design, build, and operate AI-enabled products and platform components across MOE. You will work on LLM integration, agentic workflows, evaluation harnesses, and observable, governance-ready AI systems.

The role emphasizes turning ambiguous challenges into maintainable software with measurable outcomes, and collaboration with product managers, data scientists, and governance teams to ensure responsible, scalable delivery.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals: system design, testing, version control, CI/CD, observability, security, and maintainable code.
• Good engineering judgment: explain trade-offs clearly and defend a technical position.
• Comfort with ambiguity: move from unclear policy or needs into working product shape.
• Appetite for AI-native engineering: LLM apps, evaluation, agentic workflows, RAG/memory, multimodal models.
• Pragmatic taste in tech: durable tools when right; try new AI tooling only if it improves the system.
• Ownership mindset: deploy, monitor, collect feedback, maintainability.
• Ability to work with non-technical stakeholders in sensitive public-sector domains.
• Bias for measurable quality: evals, regression checks, traceability.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and operate AI-enabled products and platform components across MOE.
• Work on LLM integration, agentic workflows, evaluation harnesses, observability, guardrails, model access, and multimodal AI use cases.
• Turn ambiguous education or corporate operations problems into maintainable software with clear success metrics.
• Build production features for procurement automation, teacher-facing AI tools, learning assistants, and evaluation/monitoring platforms.
• Create engineering patterns for reuse across product teams (templates, playbooks, test harnesses).
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, data scientists, governance colleagues, and business owners.
• Use AI development tools to accelerate delivery while maintaining 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 patches.

Skills

Software fundamentals

Ambiguity tolerance

AI-native engineering

Ownership mindset

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Python

TypeScript

Go

PostgreSQL

Container deployment

Job description

GovTech Singapore is hiring software engineers to design, build, and operate AI-enabled products and platform components across MOE. You will work on LLM integration, agentic workflows, evaluation harnesses, and observable, governance-ready AI systems.

The role emphasizes turning ambiguous challenges into maintainable software with measurable outcomes, and collaboration with product managers, data scientists, and governance teams to ensure responsible, scalable delivery.