Senior AI Engineer: From Problem to MVP

NCS; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cutting-edge AI products

Cross-team collaboration

Continuous learning opportunities

Job summary

NCS is a leading AI Tech Services company in Singapore, delivering AI-powered solutions across regulated and mission-critical sectors. You will join AI Central (AIC) as part of a startup-style team embedded within NCS, reporting to senior leaders to turn client opportunities into deployable AI products.

This high-autonomy role requires building real solutions in live client contexts, shaping scalable AI delivery, and driving rapid experimentation with strong business judgment.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience delivering AI, machine learning, or generative AI solutions in real-world settings
• Strong understanding of modern AI tooling, including LLM application patterns, orchestration frameworks, automation platforms, evaluation approaches, and model limitations
• Ability to balance experimentation with sound engineering discipline, including security, reliability, and maintainability
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate business needs into technical execution and to advise at the executive level
• Proven ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, and deliver outcomes at pace

Responsibilities

• Lead the journey from client problem statement to working prototype, MVP, or deployable solution
• Translate ambiguous business challenges into clear product hypotheses, technical approaches, and execution plans
• Build and ship AI-enabled solutions using the right combination of software engineering, model orchestration, automation, and design tools
• Make sound trade-offs across speed, quality, security, scalability, and business value
• Advise client technology and business leaders on AI investment priorities, architecture decisions, and build-versus-buy choices
• Drive fast experiments and iterative delivery cycles to validate desirability, feasibility, and value
• Contribute reusable patterns, playbooks, and working practices that help NCS scale AI-native delivery across sectors and geographies
• Stay current with emerging AI tools, methods, and frameworks, and apply them where they create measurable advantage

Skills

AI delivery

LLM tooling

Security engineering

Stakeholder mgmt

Tools

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

APIs

Analytics

Observability

Job description

NCS is a leading AI Tech Services company in Singapore, delivering AI-powered solutions across regulated and mission-critical sectors. You will join AI Central (AIC) as part of a startup-style team embedded within NCS, reporting to senior leaders to turn client opportunities into deployable AI products.

This high-autonomy role requires building real solutions in live client contexts, shaping scalable AI delivery, and driving rapid experimentation with strong business judgment.