Data Engineer — AI, Vector Search & Multimedia

Csit; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

CSIT seeks Data Engineers to join a mission-focused team in Singapore. You will architect large-scale pipelines that transform hundreds of thousands of documents daily, ingest unstructured data, generate vector embeddings, and enable semantic search to reveal insights for national security across domains including cybersecurity.

You will build hybrid retrieval systems, enable multimedia processing, and collaborate with frontend engineers, data scientists, and product managers to deliver

Qualifications

• Background in Computer Science or a related field.
• Experience in data engineering or software development.
• Experience building scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for large datasets.
• Familiarity with vector databases, LLM integration, or semantic search frameworks.
• Exposure to cloud-native environments and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Data Pipeline Engineering: design and maintain high-throughput pipelines ingesting unstructured data with AI model integration for classification and extraction.
• Data Transformation & Enrichment: implement parsing, chunking, and vector embedding generation for downstream retrieval.
• Hybrid Retrieval Systems: build hybrid indexing combining keyword and vector-based search.
• Multimedia Processing: enable video analysis and image recognition to extract metadata.
• Engineering Excellence: uphold data quality, testing, and observability standards.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: work with frontend, data science, and product teams to deliver high-performance data services.

Skills

Data engineering

Cloud computing

Vector embeddings

Semantic search

CI/CD

Docker/Kubernetes

Communication

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

CSIT seeks Data Engineers to join a mission-focused team in Singapore. You will architect large-scale pipelines that transform hundreds of thousands of documents daily, ingest unstructured data, generate vector embeddings, and enable semantic search to reveal insights for national security across domains including cybersecurity.

You will build hybrid retrieval systems, enable multimedia processing, and collaborate with frontend engineers, data scientists, and product managers to deliver