Senior AI Platform Architect & Open-Source Strategist

Red Hat Asia-Pacific PTE LTD; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Hat Asia-Pacific PTE LTD is seeking a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer for the APAC AI Center of Excellence. You will embed with strategic customers to architect and deliver production-grade AI platform extensions, defining technical strategies and upstreaming primitives into global open-source projects.

Lead cross-team collaboration, mentor engineers, and help scale secure, resilient systems while aligning with enterprise goals and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in system engineering, distributed computing, platform engineering, or AI/ML software development.
• Proven leadership and mentorship of engineers.
• Strong track record shipping production-grade code.
• Experience with enterprise-scale cloud-native architectures and security/compliance.

Responsibilities

• Embed with strategic customers to resolve blockers and design scalable solutions.
• Architect future-proof AI platform extensions across subsystems.
• Establish testing practices for large-scale AI systems and secure integrations.
• Prototype and develop custom platform integrations using real-world data.
• Harden POCs and MVPs into production-grade architectures.

Skills

C/C++

Go

Python

Open-source contributions

AI/ML infrastructure

Kubernetes

CUDA

Mentorship

Communication

Tools

CRDs

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Job description

Red Hat Asia-Pacific PTE LTD is seeking a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer for the APAC AI Center of Excellence. You will embed with strategic customers to architect and deliver production-grade AI platform extensions, defining technical strategies and upstreaming primitives into global open-source projects.

Lead cross-team collaboration, mentor engineers, and help scale secure, resilient systems while aligning with enterprise goals and regulatory requirements.