Founding Platform Engineer – AI Systems

REFINERY MEDIA PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

REFINERY MEDIA PTE. LTD. is seeking a senior engineering leader to own the core platform for Gengis AI's production-focused workflows.

You will shape architecture, drive AI orchestration, and oversee product infrastructure, collaborating with founders and early production users to ship the first durable version of the platform. This role blends systems, product, and applied AI; you will hire early engineers, design scalable backends, ensure reliability, security, and observability, and balance

Qualifications

• 7+ years building and shipping production software with ownership of systems.
• Strong backend and systems architecture: APIs, databases, queues, cloud.
• Experience with data-heavy, workflow-driven or human-in-the-loop products.
• Experience with LLMs, AI APIs, diffusion/video models, or AI orchestration.
• Judgment on model failure modes, cost, latency, reliability, and trust.
• Willingness to design evaluation workflows and quality metrics.
• Full-stack capability to ship end-to-end in early-stage team.
• Fluency in cloud and infra topics: deployment, CI/CD, observability, security.

Responsibilities

• Core platform architecture and backend systems.
• AI orchestration across text, image, and future video workflows.
• Reliable async workflows for long-running AI tasks.
• Evaluation systems for measurable, repeatable output quality.
• Human-in-the-loop review flows for refinement and approval.
• Cost, reliability, and performance controls for AI workflows.
• Data handling, permissions, auditability, and security fundamentals.
• Cloud deployment, CI/CD, observability, and operational discipline.
• Engineering standards and early technical hiring as the team grows.

Skills

Backend systems

APIs

Cloud infrastructure

Full-stack capable

AI orchestration

Leadership

Communication

Tools

PostgreSQL

CI/CD

Observability

AI models

Job description

REFINERY MEDIA PTE. LTD. is seeking a senior engineering leader to own the core platform for Gengis AI's production-focused workflows.

You will shape architecture, drive AI orchestration, and oversee product infrastructure, collaborating with founders and early production users to ship the first durable version of the platform. This role blends systems, product, and applied AI; you will hire early engineers, design scalable backends, ensure reliability, security, and observability, and balance