Artificial Intelligence Engineer

NCS Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

NCS Group in Singapore seeks a Senior AI Native Builder within AI Central to transform client challenges into AI-powered products and MVPs across regulated sectors in Asia Pacific.

You will lead product hypotheses, design execution plans, and ship AI solutions using orchestration, automation, and modern tooling while balancing speed, security, and scale.

You will collaborate with client leaders, advise on AI investment, and help build reusable patterns and playbooks for regional deployment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering AI/ML/generative AI solutions in real-world settings.
• Strong understanding of modern AI tooling, including LLM patterns, orchestration, automation, evaluation, and model limitations.
• Ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, and deliver outcomes at pace.
• Strong product sense, engineering depth, business acumen, critical thinking, and technical judgement.
• Ability to balance experimentation with security, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management, including executive-level advisory.
• Fluency in using AI as a practical multiplier across design, code, research, documentation, and delivery.
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field; equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI product and solution delivery from problem statement to MVP or deployable solution.
• Translate business challenges into hypotheses, architectures, and execution plans.
• Build and ship AI-enabled solutions using software engineering, model orchestration, automation, and design tools.
• Drive fast experiments and iterative delivery cycles to validate desirability, feasibility, and value.
• Advise client technology and business leaders on AI investments, architecture decisions, and build-versus-buy choices.
• Own the AI delivery methodology for your assigned sector vertical and build reusable patterns.
• Mentor engineers and share best practices across AI Central.

Skills

AI solution delivery

LLM tooling

Stakeholder management

Independent working

Education

Computer Science / Information Systems / Engineering degree

Tools

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

APIs

Observability

Job description

NCS is a leading AI Tech Services company. With a 15,000-strong team across the Asia Pacific, NCS scales its platforms and capabilities to provide clients with greater agility and AI expertise across a range of Industries. Embracing a strong ecosystem of global partners, NCS transforms technology services delivery combining AI with digital resilience to drive real business impact. NCS is a subsidiary of the Singtel Group.

As a Senior AI Native Builder in AI Central, you will help build, productise, and deploy AI-powered products, MVPs, reusable assets, and new ventures for regulated and mission-critical sectors. You will work in live client contexts, turning ambiguous business challenges into working solutions that can be tested, adopted, and scaled across Singapore and the wider Asia Pacific region.

AI Central is NCS’s enterprise AI capability spine, responsible for building differentiated AI platforms and reusable assets across sectors such as aviation, land transport, public safety, telecommunications, and government.

What will you do?

AI Product & Solution Delivery

• Lead the journey from client problem statement to working prototype, MVP, or deployable AI solution.
• Translate ambiguous business challenges into clear product hypotheses, technical approaches, and execution plans.
• Build and ship AI-enabled solutions using software engineering, model orchestration, automation, and design tools.
• Drive fast experiments and iterative delivery cycles to validate desirability, feasibility, and business value.

Client Advisory & Stakeholder Engagement

• Work directly with client technology and business leaders to understand business needs and shape AI-enabled products.
• Advise senior stakeholders on AI investment priorities, architecture decisions, and build-versus-buy choices.
• Challenge assumptions constructively and help create clarity through practical, outcome-focused execution.

AI Engineering, Quality & Delivery Judgement

• Make sound trade-offs across speed, quality, security, scalability, maintainability, and business value.
• Apply modern AI tooling, including LLM application patterns, orchestration frameworks, automation platforms, evaluation approaches, and model limitations.
• Balance rapid experimentation with strong engineering discipline, especially in enterprise and regulated environments.
• Own the AI delivery methodology for your assigned sector vertical.
• Build and maintain reusable patterns, playbooks, and working practices that help NCS scale AI-native delivery across sectors and geographies.
• Document and abstract solutions from Singapore lighthouse accounts so they can be adapted for regional deployment.

Team Enablement & Capability Building

• Support the technical onboarding and capability development of engineers joining your team.
• Share what works across AI Central and contribute to the broader adoption of AI-native delivery practices within NCS.
• Stay current with emerging AI tools, methods, and frameworks, applying them where they create measurable advantage.

The ideal candidate should possess:

• 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 work independently, navigate ambiguity, and deliver outcomes at pace.
• Strong product instinct, engineering depth, business acumen, critical thinking, and technical judgement.
• Ability to balance experimentation with security, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to translate business needs into technical execution and advise at executive level.
• Comfort working with senior stakeholders and challenging assumptions constructively.
• Fluency in using AI as a practical multiplier across design, code, research, documentation, and delivery.
• A degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field. Equivalent practical experience is also valued.

Good to have

• Experience in consulting, venture building, startup environments, or innovation teams.
• Experience deploying AI solutions in enterprise or regulated environments such as aviation, land transport, public safety, telecommunications, or government.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, APIs, CI/CD, analytics, and observability.
• Experience shaping early-stage products with users and iterating based on feedback.
• Regional exposure, including experience designing or adapting solutions across multiple Asia Pacific markets.

Why Join NCS?

Grow with Us

• Work on cutting-edge AI products that shape the future of technology
• Collaborate with talented, passionate teams across research, engineering, and design
• Access continuous learning opportunities and career development pathways

Make an Impact

• Transform AI research into products that solve real problems for clients and users
• Drive innovation in a leading Technology Services Firm with regional presence
• Contribute to building a better future through responsible, human-centred AI

Thrive in Our Culture

• Experience a human-to-human approach where relationships and collaboration matter
• Be part of Team NCS, where bold ideas meet practical execution
• Enjoy a supportive environment that values diversity, inclusion, and respect

We are driven by our AEIOU beliefs—Adventure, Excellence, Integrity, Ownership, and Unity—and we seek individuals who embody these values in both their professional and personal lives. We are committed to our Impact: Valuing our clients, Growing our people, and Creating our future.

Together, we make the extraordinary happen.

Learn more about us at ncs.co and visit our LinkedIn career site.