AI Systems Engineer I for Air Traffic AI (LLMs/RAG)

Nanyang Technological University; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

NTU's ATMRI invites a Research Engineer I to contribute to the Digital ATCO Assistant project in Singapore. You will design, develop, and integrate AI-enabled applications that blend LLMs, RAG, AI agents, and workflow orchestration with operational data sources.

You will build backend services and user interfaces for prototypes, implement evaluation, logging, monitoring, and traceability, and work with domain experts to convert air traffic use cases into testable requirements and demonstrations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in a related field or equivalent experience.
• At least 1 year of relevant software engineering, systems integration, AI application development, or enterprise technology delivery experience.
• Strong experience with Python, backend development, APIs, databases, and system integration.
• Experience developing or integrating LLM applications, RAG systems, AI agents, or agent orchestration workflows.
• Ability to develop reliable end-to-end prototypes rather than standalone AI models.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and integrate AI-enabled applications for the Digital ATCO Assistant project.
• Build end-to-end systems that combine LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, AI agents, tool calling, workflow orchestration, and operational data sources.
• Integrate AI components with existing enterprise systems through APIs, databases, authentication mechanisms, and message-based services.
• Develop backend services, user interfaces, and system connectors for prototypes and pilot deployments.
• Implement evaluation, logging, monitoring, traceability, and feedback mechanisms for AI-assisted workflows.

Skills

Python

Backend development

APIs

Databases

System integration

LLM applications

RAG systems

AI agents

Agent orchestration

Operational data sources

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

APIs

Databases

Python

Job description

NTU's ATMRI invites a Research Engineer I to contribute to the Digital ATCO Assistant project in Singapore. You will design, develop, and integrate AI-enabled applications that blend LLMs, RAG, AI agents, and workflow orchestration with operational data sources.

You will build backend services and user interfaces for prototypes, implement evaluation, logging, monitoring, and traceability, and work with domain experts to convert air traffic use cases into testable requirements and demonstrations.