Principal AI Engineer

SCOR Group; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

SCOR Group is seeking a Principal AI Engineer to lead hands-on technical initiatives across AI, ML, and analytics, ensuring high-quality, scalable solutions.

You will mentor Data Scientists and ML Engineers, promote best practices, and collaborate with product and business teams to turn requirements into production-ready AI products on Azure.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing, developing and deploying AI/ML in production.
• Strong expertise in ML, generative AI, statistical modelling and software engineering.
• Proven experience building production‑grade AI products, apps and services.
• Advanced experience in model validation, performance evaluation and bias mitigation.
• Strong Python skills, API development, and FastAPI familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy AI and advanced analytics products that address high-value business challenges.
• Drive end-to-end implementation of machine learning, generative AI, and data science solutions from experimentation to production.
• Collaborate with business, product, and technology stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
• Apply and promote best practices in model development, software engineering, MLOps, testing, and AI lifecycle management.
• Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and peer reviews to Data Scientists and ML Engineers.
• Contribute technical expertise to complex initiatives and support innovation with emerging AI technologies.
• Ensure solutions meet performance, reliability, governance, and responsible AI standards.

Skills

AI/ML engineering

Generative AI

Python

Azure cloud

MLOps

CI/CD

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Bias mitigation

Communication

Education

Master's degree in STEM or CS

Tools

Databricks

Palantir Foundry

FastAPI

Job description

Working closely with business stakeholders and product teams, the Principal AI Engineer provides hands‑on technical leadership and is accountable for the technical quality of assigned AI initiatives while promoting technical excellence, best practices, and innovation across the organization.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and deploy AI and advanced analytics products that address high-value business challenges across the P&C business.

Drive the end-to-end implementation of machine learning, generative AI, and data science solutions from experimentation to production.

Collaborate with business, product, and technology stakeholders to translate requirements into robust and scalable solutions.

Apply and promote best practices in model development, software engineering, MLOps, testing, and AI product lifecycle management.

Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and peer reviews to Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers, helping raise engineering and modelling standards across the team.

Contribute technical expertise to complex initiatives and support innovation through experimentation with emerging AI technologies.

Ensure solutions meet performance, reliability, governance, and responsible AI standards.

Qualifications

Experience and Skills

• At least 8 years of experience designing, developing and deploying AI, machine learning and advanced analytics solutions in production environments.
• Strong expertise in machine learning, generative AI, statistical modelling and software engineering.
• Proven experience developing and maintaining production‑grade AI products, applications and services.
• Advanced experience in model validation, performance evaluation, interpretability, and the identification and mitigation of model limitations and bias.
• Strong programming skills in Python, including object‑oriented programming, API development and frameworks such as FastAPI.
• Experience building AI solutions on cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure.
• Strong understanding of AI industrialization practices, including MLOps, model packaging, CI/CD, testing, deployment and monitoring.
• Experience with cloud‑native technologies, including Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and cloud storage services.
• Ability to solve complex technical problems and deliver robust, scalable and maintainable solutions from concept to production.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills and ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience with Databricks and Palantir Foundry is a strong plus.

Education

• Master's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Actuarial Science or similar quantitative field

About Us

As a leading global reinsurer, SCOR offers its clients a diversified and innovative range of reinsurance and insurance solutions and services to control and manage risk. Applying "The Art & Science of Risk," SCOR uses its industry‑recognized expertise and cutting‑edge financial solutions to serve its clients and contribute to the welfare and resilience of society in around 160 countries worldwide.

Working at SCOR means engaging with some of the best minds in the industry – actuaries, data scientists, underwriters, risk modelers, engineers, and many others - as we work together to find solutions to pressing challenges facing societies.

As an international company, our common culture is defined by "The SCOR Way." Serving both to build momentum that drives the Group forward and as a compass to guide our actions and choices, The SCOR Way is anchored by five core values, reflecting the input of employees at all levels of the Group. We care about clients, people, and societies. We perform with integrity. We act with courage. We encourage open minds. And we thrive through collaboration.

SCOR supports inclusion and the diversity of talents, and all positions are open to people with disabilities.