Principal AI Governance Engineer – Digital & Cloud AI

UL, LLC; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 199,000 - 321,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus 20% of base salary (typ)

Health, dental, vision benefits

401K/retirement savings

Paid time off: vacation, holidays, and

Job summary

UL LLC is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead Digital AI initiatives across governance, cloud AI, and lifecycle assurance. The role focuses on translating regulations and customer needs into scalable UL Solutions offerings for AI systems and services.

Required experience spans 15+ years in software platforms, AI/ML, and cybersecurity, with 5+ years in AI. Strong governance, testing, and risk management capabilities are essential for success in this global, hybrid role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline. Advanced degree preferred.
• 15+ years of technical experience in software platforms, cloud systems, AI/ML systems, cybersecurity, technology risk, model lifecycle management, digital assurance, or related technology domains, including 5+ years of direct experience working with AI technologies.
• Demonstrated experience translating AI governance, model risk management, and regulatory requirements into practical evaluation methodologies, controls, assurance frameworks, certification programs, or customer-facing services.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate and test AI systems and identify failure modes, risks, and control gaps, including model performance, transparency, traceability, explainability, reliability, robustness, human-in-the-loop controls, fairness and bias, privacy, security, accountability, and operational resilience.
• Working knowledge of AI evaluation and testing methodologies, including benchmarking, scenario-based testing, red teaming, bias and fairness evaluation, robustness testing, model monitoring, and assessment of risk-mitigation controls.
• Working knowledge of predictive AI and machine learning, Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), foundation and frontier models, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), AI agents, multi-agent systems, and associated technical, operational, and governance risks.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for AI governance, enterprise and cloud AI, predictive and Generative AI, foundation and frontier models, AI agents and agentic workflows, multi-agent systems, and AI lifecycle assurance.
• Translate emerging technologies, regulations, standards, and customer needs into scalable UL Solutions offerings that strengthen the company's AI standards and services portfolio.
• Collaborate across UL to ensure alignment with global AI standards and customer requirements.

Skills

AI governance leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Technical writing

Public speaking

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/AI/related field

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

UL LLC is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead Digital AI initiatives across governance, cloud AI, and lifecycle assurance. The role focuses on translating regulations and customer needs into scalable UL Solutions offerings for AI systems and services.

Required experience spans 15+ years in software platforms, AI/ML, and cybersecurity, with 5+ years in AI. Strong governance, testing, and risk management capabilities are essential for success in this global, hybrid role.