Chief AI Platform Engineer

nSearch Global; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

nSearch Global in Singapore is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to own the end-to-end technical architecture for Vetta, our AI-powered recruitment platform. You will lead a growing engineering team, driving scalable, enterprise-grade solutions and collaborating with product and commercial leadership to translate customer needs into robust capabilities.

This role requires hands-on backend work, security, and CI/CD excellence as the platform evolves to support enterprise customers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with meaningful leadership or architecture ownership.
• Hands-on production SaaS experience and backend focus (Python) with modern APIs.
• Experience building AI/LLM apps using tool calling, agents, RAG and evaluation frameworks.
• Strong cloud and distributed systems knowledge, enterprise integrations and security.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end technical architecture and engineering roadmap for Vetta.
• Lead the transition towards a scalable, enterprise-grade AI platform.
• Design and implement agentic AI workflows using LLMs, tool calling and human-in-the-loop patterns.
• Build model-agnostic architecture across providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, IBM).
• Strengthen reliability, security, performance, observability and scalability.
• Lead backend services, APIs, data pipelines and platform integrations.
• Establish CI/CD, testing, code review, monitoring and release management practices.
• Design evaluation frameworks for AI and agent performance.
• Own enterprise architecture requirements including RBAC, auditability and data protection.
• Guide integrations with ATS/HRIS and enterprise systems.
• Collaborate with product/commercial leadership to translate customer needs into scalable capabilities.
• Build and lead internal engineering team as the platform grows.
• Support enterprise customer discussions and deployments.
• Maintain technical documentation and architecture standards.

Skills

Leadership

Backend

Python

APIs

Cloud architecture

Distributed systems

CI/CD

RBAC

Team building

Communication

Tools

OpenAI API

Anthropic API

IBM API

Job description

nSearch Global in Singapore is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to own the end-to-end technical architecture for Vetta, our AI-powered recruitment platform. You will lead a growing engineering team, driving scalable, enterprise-grade solutions and collaborating with product and commercial leadership to translate customer needs into robust capabilities.

This role requires hands-on backend work, security, and CI/CD excellence as the platform evolves to support enterprise customers.