Director, AI Engineer (APAC AI Hub)

Bny Mellon; Singapore; On-site; SGD 230,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid volunteer time

Generous leave

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

BNY Mellon seeks a Director, AI Engineer to lead the APAC AI Hub in Singapore. The role focuses on setting technical direction, building production-grade AI capabilities, and aligning regional work with global platforms and governance.

You will mentor engineers, drive scalable AI services, and partner with product and risk teams to deliver enterprise-grade AI solutions across APAC. A senior, hands-on leadership position within a regulated financial services environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Advanced degree is beneficial for senior leadership in AI engineering.
• Experience leading production-grade AI products and platforms.
• Strong understanding of AI engineering, LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, and MLOps.
• Extensive software and platform engineering across distributed/cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for enterprise AI products and platforms.
• Lead end-to-end development of production-grade AI solutions.
• Develop scalable services, APIs, and context pipelines for AI use cases.
• Mentor engineers and grow APAC AI engineering capabilities.
• Collaborate with product, governance, risk and regional teams.

Skills

AI leadership

Production AI

Cross-functional leadership

MLOps/LLMOps

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering/IS

Advanced degree beneficial

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

APIs

Job description

Job De ion

We're seeking a future team member for the role of Director, AI Engineer to join our APAC AI Hub team. This role is located in Singapore and will partner with regional teams across APAC and the global AI Hub.

This is a senior technical leadership opportunity for an experienced, hands-on AI engineer who can establish technical direction, lead the development of complex enterprise AI capabilities, and translate emerging AI technologies into secure, scalable, and production-ready solutions. The role will help expand AI engineering capability in APAC while ensuring regional solutions align with BNY's global platforms, architecture, governance, and control standards.

In this role, you'll make an impact in the following ways:

• Set technical direction and influence the architecture, design, and implementation of complex AI products, platform capabilities, and reusable engineering components across APAC.
• Lead the end-to-end development of production-grade solutions using large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic systems, model integrations, and related applied AI technologies.
• Advance our enterprise AI platform and other AI Hub capabilities by developing scalable services, APIs, integrations, context pipelines, developer tools, and enterprise application components.
• Translate complex regional business requirements and technical opportunities into sustainable architectures that align with global AI Hub strategy and enterprise standards.
• Establish and promote engineering practices for AI evaluation, MLOps/LLMOps, CI/CD, automated testing, security, privacy, observability, reliability, and responsible AI adoption.
• Serve as a senior technical authority for highly complex architecture, integration, performance, and production issues that may affect critical business services.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, AI Governance, Risk, Compliance, Cybersecurity, and regional business teams to ensure AI solutions are valuable, controlled, resilient, and appropriate for enterprise use.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and define practical implementation strategies that improve engineering productivity, accelerate delivery, and support reusable capabilities across the firm.
• Mentor engineers, strengthen technical standards, and help grow AI engineering capability across the APAC AI Hub and partner teams.

To be successful in this role, we're seeking the following:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience, is required. An advanced degree is beneficial.
• Advanced experience, preferably 12+ years, in applied AI/ML, software engineering, platform engineering, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience establishing technical direction and building scalable, production-grade AI products, platforms, or shared enterprise capabilities.
• Deep understanding of modern AI engineering, including LLMs, agentic systems, retrieval-augmented generation, prompt engineering, session context management, fine-tuning approaches, model evaluation, guardrails, and MLOps/LLMOps.
• Extensive software and platform engineering experience across backend services, APIs, distributed systems, integrations, cloud-native architectures, containers, and automated delivery pipelines.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, security, privacy, operational resilience, software quality, technical-debt management, and responsible AI practices.
• Ability to resolve highly complex technical problems, influence senior stakeholders, and communicate technical strategies clearly to engineering, product, risk, and business audiences.
• Experience working across regional and global teams in a matrixed organization located in various time-zones; experience in banking, financial services, or another regulated industry is strongly preferred.

About Us

At BNY, our culture allows us to run our company better and enables employees growth and success. As a leading global financial services company at the heart of the global financial system, we influence nearly 20% of the world's investible assets. Every day, our teams harness cutting-edge AI and breakthrough technologies to collaborate with clients, driving transformative solutions that redefine industries and uplift communities worldwide.

Recognized as a top destination for innovators, BNY is where bold ideas meet advanced technology and exceptional talent. Together, we power the future of finance - and this is what is all about. Join us and be part of something extraordinary.

About The Team

At BNY, our culture speaks for itself, check out the latest BNY news at: BNY Newsroom & BNY LinkedIn

Here’s a Few Of Our Recent Awards

• America's Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2025
• World's Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2025
• Most Just Companies, Just Capital and CNBC, 2025

Our Benefits And Rewards

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life's journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.