Senior AI & Software Engineer — Public Sector Impact

GovTech Singapore; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leave benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Employee wellness programs

Job summary

GovTech Singapore is hiring to build AI-enabled products and platforms for public sector needs. You will shape and deploy reliable AI systems, work on LLM integration and agentic workflows, and ensure governance, security, and quality across production environments.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in AI/ML or software engineering, with hands-on AI development experience, strong design and CI/CD skills, and the ability to navigate ambiguous, policy-driven requirements in a public-sector context.

Qualifications

• At least 8 years in AI, ML, data science, or software engineering.
• Completed at least one end-to-end AI development and deployment project.
• Strong fundamentals: design, testing, CI/CD, observability, security.
• Ability to explain trade-offs and defend technical positions.
• Comfort with ambiguity turning policy needs into a product shape.
• Experience with AI-native engineering: LLMs, evaluation, memory, multimodal.
• Ownership mindset: deployment, monitoring, and user feedback.
• Ability to work with non-technical stakeholders in public sector.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and operate AI-enabled products and platform components.
• Work on LLM integration, agentic workflows, evaluation harnesses, observability.
• Turn ambiguous problems into maintainable software with clear success metrics.
• Build production features for automation, tools, assistants, and agentic workflows.
• Work with geospatial data to build AI-enabled location-aware solutions.
• Create reusable engineering patterns, templates, and test harnesses.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, data scientists, and governance teams.
• Use AI tooling to accelerate delivery while preserving human accountability.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, incident response, and technical decisions.

Skills

AI/ML experience

End-to-end AI projects

System design

CI/CD

Observability

Security

Stakeholder comms

Ambiguity handling

Public-sector collaboration

Quality metrics

Tools

Python

TypeScript

Go

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud services

Job description

GovTech Singapore is hiring to build AI-enabled products and platforms for public sector needs. You will shape and deploy reliable AI systems, work on LLM integration and agentic workflows, and ensure governance, security, and quality across production environments.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in AI/ML or software engineering, with hands-on AI development experience, strong design and CI/CD skills, and the ability to navigate ambiguous, policy-driven requirements in a public-sector context.