Lead AI Platform Engineer, Secure Agentic AI

Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX); Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX) seeks an Engineer/Lead Engineer to join the AI Platform team in Singapore. You will design, build and operate engineering components that enable AI agents to securely reason, use tools, access services and execute multi‑step workflows.

Work includes agent runtimes, tool gateways, secure sandboxes, MCP, workflow persistence and robust CI/CD, with emphasis on security, performance and observability.

Qualifications

• Strong software‑engineering fundamentals.
• Proficiency in at least one language (Python/Go/TypeScript/Java).
• Experience developing APIs, backend services or distributed apps.
• Hands‑on with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD and GitLab CI.
• Knowledge of Helm and IaC/GitOps.
• Familiarity with MCP or tool‑integration approaches.
• Understanding of modern LLM concepts and multi‑step model execution.
• Ability to learn new frameworks rapidly.
• Good written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate services used to execute AI agents.
• Implement agent execution loops with models, tools, context and app state.
• Integrate agent harnesses and DevSecOps workflows into the platform.
• Define input/output schemas, tool calling and response validation.
• Implement retries, timeouts, cancellation and error handling for model and tool calls.
• Build APIs and SDKs for applications to invoke agent capabilities.
• Secure sandboxed environments and enforce resource limits.
• Ensure observability with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry.
• Design MCP servers, clients and gateways for agent communication.
• Implement authentication and authorization for tool calls.

Skills

Python

Go

TypeScript/JavaScript

Java

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitLab CI

Helm

IaC / GitOps

LLM concepts

Agentic AI

MCP

Observability

API security

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX) seeks an Engineer/Lead Engineer to join the AI Platform team in Singapore. You will design, build and operate engineering components that enable AI agents to securely reason, use tools, access services and execute multi‑step workflows.

Work includes agent runtimes, tool gateways, secure sandboxes, MCP, workflow persistence and robust CI/CD, with emphasis on security, performance and observability.