Senior AI Product Engineer

NCS Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

NCS Pte Ltd is seeking an AI Product Engineer to design and develop systems that enable AI to perceive, reason, and act in physical space. You will help turn buildings into intelligent environments for robots and people, working with ROS/ROS2 and AI-native tooling.

You will own living-lab style projects, prototype roadmaps, and POCs, collaborating with clients through the product lifecycle to deliver cutting-edge physical AI solutions in real workplace environments.

Qualifications

• AI-native by default; uses models, agents or learned systems as primary design tool.
• Experience designing AI-driven systems.
• Exposure to physical/spatial AI or robotics including perception, SLAM, sensor fusion, or spatial computing.

Responsibilities

• Architect the AI-driven stack end to end and build with AI-native tools.
• Translate customer vision into technical requirements and innovate solutions.
• Develop prototypes and proofs of concept.
• Engage users and clients across the product lifecycle.
• Turn sensor, vision, and IoT data into structured space understanding.

Skills

AI-driven systems design

Python

C++

ROS/ROS2

APIs

Data pipelines

Robotics

Tools

Python

C++

ROS/ROS2

APIs

Job description

Company 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.

Job Description

As an AI Product Engineer, you will design and develop the systems that let AI perceive, reason about, and act in physical space - turning buildings into intelligent, responsive environments for robots and people.

What You'll Do

• Join an AI product team with the mission to create a living lab for physical AI.
• Architect the AI-driven stack end to end, and build with AI-native tools and workflows.
• Translate customer vision and challenges into technical requirements and innovate on solutioning.
• Develop prototypes and proofs of concept.
• Engage users and clients across the product lifecycle.
• Design spatial intelligence systems: turn sensor, vision, and IoT data into a live, structured understanding of physical space - occupancy, object/asset location, environmental state, and spatial relationships between people, rooms, and equipment.
• Develop and integrate physical AI / robotics systems: perception (vision, sensor fusion), planning, and control for robots and autonomous agents operating in real workplace environments - working with existing robotics stacks (e.g., ROS/ROS2) rather than building from scratch where possible.

What You'll Own

• Driving an active, high-velocity living lab for physical AI.
• Prototypes and roadmap - from 6-week sprints to 24-month bets.
• Demos and POCs to showcase, test, and gather feedback for iteration.
• POVs and approach for adapting and applying physical AI across the living lab.

Qualifications

We're looking for someone AI-native - who reaches for a model, an agent, or a learned system as the default design tool.

• AI-native by default - you reach for models, agents, and learned systems as your primary design tool.
• Demonstrated experience architecting AI-driven systems.
• Exposure to physical/spatial AI or robotics - perception, SLAM/mapping, sensor fusion, robot planning/control, or spatial computing such as Gaussian splatting.
• Experience building evaluation frameworks/harnesses for AI systems.
• Strong engineering fundamentals as the supporting layer - Python, C++, or similar; APIs; data pipelines; comfort with robotics tooling (e.g., ROS/ROS2).
• Operates independently within a small squad.
• A practitioner of the product mindset.
• A solid team player with a sense of adventure.

Additional Information

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.