Principal AI & Data Platform Architect

Base Camp Digital; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 198,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Base Camp Digital is seeking a Principal Software Engineer, AI & Data Platform in Singapore to lead architecture for data and AI foundations. The role requires hands-on technical leadership, building scalable ML-ready data pipelines and intelligent workflows in a fast-paced product environment.

You will design data models, manage model training pipelines, and establish engineering standards across data and AI platforms while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver production-grade

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience designing and delivering production software systems.
• Expert-level Python development with a strong track record of building scalable backend platforms.

Responsibilities

• Architect scalable data platforms capable of processing large volumes of scientific and engineering data, ensuring datasets remain reliable, reusable, and ML-ready.
• Design domain-specific data models that support analytics, automation, and machine learning workloads.
• Build high-performance data pipelines across object storage, analytical data platforms, and training-optimised datasets.
• Develop and maintain ML data pipelines covering data ingestion, curation, deduplication, feature preparation, evaluation datasets, and regression tracking.
• Build and operate model training and fine-tuning pipelines for production AI applications.
• Design intelligent workflow orchestration that connects user intent with platform capabilities through reliable AI-driven automation.
• Establish robust evaluation frameworks, benchmarking methodologies, automated scoring, and quality monitoring for AI models.
• Define engineering best practices across data and AI platforms, creating reusable frameworks, documentation, and technical standards.
• Work closely with cross-functional engineering teams to deliver scalable, production-grade AI systems.

Skills

Python

Data engineering

ML pipelines

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Architecture design

Education

Bachelor's degree or Master's degree

Tools

Object storage

Analytical data platforms

Training-optimised data formats

Job description

Base Camp Digital is seeking a Principal Software Engineer, AI & Data Platform in Singapore to lead architecture for data and AI foundations. The role requires hands-on technical leadership, building scalable ML-ready data pipelines and intelligent workflows in a fast-paced product environment.

You will design data models, manage model training pipelines, and establish engineering standards across data and AI platforms while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver production-grade