AI Solution Engineer (LLM & Agentic AI)

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

Job summary

Evonik is seeking an AI/ML software engineer to design, build, and productionize LLM-based applications and RAG workflows. Your work will span data pipelines, APIs, and integration with enterprise systems in a Singapore context.

You will collaborate with business users to translate needs into technical options, ensuring secure, observable, and cost-conscious AI solutions across the organization.

Qualifications

• Hands-on software engineering, AI app engineering, data integration, or enterprise integration.
• LLM-based solution development, retrieval-augmented generation, prompt and context engineering, tool use, and agent workflows.
• Data integration with structured and unstructured data, APIs, data quality, and operational reliability.
• Strong Python skills, API/backend development, and SQL usage where needed.
• Experience using Azure or comparable cloud environments to deliver AI solutions.
• Familiarity with Git, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, containers, testing and monitoring of AI systems.
• Ability to work with business users, translate needs, and communicate trade-offs clearly.
• Understanding of responsible AI, security, data protection, and cost awareness.

Responsibilities

• Understand business problems, shape AI solution options, validate value via prototypes, and deliver solutions.
• Design, build, evaluate, and improve LLM-based applications such as RAG solutions and AI agents.
• Own the technical implementation from prototype to production, including APIs, data pipelines, deployment, monitoring.
• Build data and knowledge pipelines for AI use cases with reliable ingestion and access controls.
• Integrate AI with enterprise systems (Microsoft, SAP) and other data sources.
• Ensure quality, responsible operation, security, observability, and cost awareness in production.
• Contribute reusable components, prompts, and templates for delivered solutions.

Skills

Python

LLM solutions

APIs

Azure

CI/CD

Tools

Azure DevOps

Git

Kubernetes

SQL

Docker

Job description

What we offer At Evonik, you’re part of a global chemical company working in many sectors that go beyond chemistry. From lipids for tomorrow’s medicines, biosurfactants for green detergents, additives for plastics recycling or membranes to help drive forward the energy transition, you’ll play an essential part in helping the world’s most essential industries succeed. Our success hinges on a diversity of ideas powered by people, not egos. Whether you’re a scientist or engineer, new to the team or established, in business, production, or anything in between – we cheer each other on. Because we believe we can do anything. Explore everything. And Be Part of Something Special! Find out more about the many benefits we offer: https://www.evonik.com/en/careers/why.html Meet the team and get to know the people behind Evonik: https://www.evonik.com/en/news/meet-the-team.html

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Solution Delivery: Work with internal customers to understand business problems, shape feasible AI solution options, validate value through prototypes, and deliver solutions into productive use.
• AI Engineering: Design, build, evaluate, and improve LLM-based applications such as RAG solutions, knowledge assistants, AI agents, tool-using workflows, and automation flows.
• End-to-End Implementation: Own the technical implementation from prototype to production, including application logic, APIs, data pipelines, orchestration, testing, deployment, documentation, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Data Engineering and Integration: Build the data and knowledge pipelines required for AI use cases, with a focus on reliable ingestion, preparation, retrieval, and access-control-aware use of information.
• Enterprise System Integration: Connect AI solutions with relevant enterprise systems (e.g. Microsoft, SAP), APIs, knowledge repositories, and operational data sources.
• Quality and Responsible Operation: Apply testing, evaluation, responsible AI practices, security, data protection, observability, cost awareness, and production support to ensure trustworthy enterprise use.
• Reusable Delivery Assets: Contribute reusable components, prompts, evaluation approaches, RAG and agent patterns, pipeline templates, and implementation guidance based on delivered solutions.

REQUIREMENTS

• Several years of hands-on experience in software engineering, AI application engineering, solution delivery, data engineering and/or enterprise integration with a proven ability to bring solutions into productive use.
• Strong practical experience with LLM-based solution development, especially retrieval-augmented generation, prompt and context engineering, tool use, and agentic workflows.
• Solid data integration skills for AI use cases, including working with structured and unstructured data, APIs, data quality, and operational reliability.
• Strong software engineering skills, especially in Python, with experience building APIs or backend components and applying SQL where needed for AI solution delivery.
• Practical experience using Azure or comparable cloud environments to deliver AI solutions, including managed LLM services, retrieval technologies, secure integration, and deployment of use-case-specific components.
• Familiarity with modern delivery workflows, including version control such as Git, Azure DevOps or comparable tools, CI/CD basics, containerized deployments, testing, monitoring, and support for delivered AI solutions.
• Ability to work directly with business users, clarify ambiguous needs, translate problems into technical options, validate value through prototypes, and communicate trade-offs clearly.
• Good understanding of how to evaluate and operate AI solutions responsibly, including quality, security, data protection, cost awareness, and safe use of agentic workflows.
• Additional experience with enterprise platforms, industrial systems, or scientific and technical data environments would be valuable.

Your Talent Acquisition Manager: Samantha Fu Company is Evonik (SEA) Pte. Ltd.

This is your opportunity to join a thriving global organization that combines cutting-edge science, technology and engineering with world-class business services to create solutions that answer real-world problems. If you join us, we’ll expect you to take ownership of your work, team up with other great minds, and add your name to creations that make a positive difference for generations. As one of the world leaders in specialty chemicals operating in more than 100 countries with over 32,000 employees, we need your diversity of thought to make us better. In return for your passion, initiative and creativity, you’ll enjoy opportunities to improve and to be respected for your contribution.