Senior AI Agent & Multimodal Dialogue Engineer

SHOPEE SINGAPORE PRIVATE LIMITED

Singapore

On-site

SGD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

36 hours ago
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Job summary

Shopee Singapore Private Limited in Singapore seeks a seasoned AI/ML Research Engineer to design and implement advanced agent algorithms, memory architectures, and multimodal reasoning for next-generation conversational agents.

You will collaborate with research and engineering teams, publish results, and optimize LLM alignment and safety while deploying on cloud GPUs. This role blends research rigor with practical system-building.

Qualifications

  • Master's degree or above in CS, NLP, AI or related field.
  • 3+ years hands-on research and engineering experience building conversational agents with memory systems.
  • Publications at top-tier venues (ACL/AAAI/EMNLP/ICLR) on persona-driven dialogue generation or related.
  • Experience with vision-language tutoring/dialogue agents and multimodal reasoning.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop core agent algorithms, including multi-turn dialogue planning and tool orchestration.
  • Build and maintain memory architectures using knowledge graphs for long-term context and personalization.
  • Develop emotion-aware dialogue models to improve naturalness and engagement.
  • Design and implement LLM safety strategies (SFT, DPO) to mitigate risk in personalization.
  • Build multimodal agent capabilities integrating vision-language reasoning.
  • Benchmark and deploy LLMs/VLMs across GPU clusters and cloud environments; develop evaluation pipelines.
  • Track frontier AI research and contribute to publications.

Skills

Knowledge-graph memory
Emotion-aware dialogue
LLM alignment (SFT/DPO)
Retrieval & ranking pipelines
Vision-language reasoning
Reinforcement learning (DQN)

Education

Master's degree or above in Computer Science / AI / NLP

Tools

PyTorch
Hugging Face
PostgreSQL
Neo4j
AWS S3

Job description

Shopee Singapore Private Limited in Singapore seeks a seasoned AI/ML Research Engineer to design and implement advanced agent algorithms, memory architectures, and multimodal reasoning for next-generation conversational agents.

You will collaborate with research and engineering teams, publish results, and optimize LLM alignment and safety while deploying on cloud GPUs. This role blends research rigor with practical system-building.

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