Senior / Lead AI Engineer

re-zoo-me; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Omio is seeking a Founding AI Engineer to lead the design, development and deployment of AI-powered solutions from Singapore. You will drive adoption of AI across business units, collaborating with Product, Engineering and Business teams to deliver tangible value and scalable systems for global expansion.

The role requires a strong track record with large language models, MLOps practices, and the ability to influence stakeholders while delivering high-performance results.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proven track record deploying production-grade AI solutions at scale.
• Strong communication and stakeholder influence.
• Self-motivated and independent with minimal supervision.
• Experience with real-time, high-performance AI systems desirable.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI solutions leveraging LLMs to improve productivity and deliver strong business impact.
• Lead the end-to-end development lifecycle from ideation to deployment of AI-powered solutions across various domains.
• Build scalable AI systems that support Omio’s global expansion goals.
• Act as an evangelist for AI adoption by demonstrating clear value to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Business, Product, and Engineering teams to integrate AI into workflows and drive adoption.
• Present models, results, and systems to both technical and non-technical audiences, including C-level stakeholders.

Skills

Python

Java

SQL

LLM deployment

RAG systems

Vector databases

Cloud

Communication

Independence

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

vLLM

LMDeploy

FAISS

Weaviate

Pinecone

Milvus

Job description

Omio’s vision is to enable people to travel seamlessly anywhere, anyway. We are bringing all global transport into a single distribution system and creating end-to-end magical consumer journeys.

With Omio you can compare and book trains, buses, ferries and flights anywhere in Europe, the US, and Canada with one simple search, on mobile, app or desktop. By offering transparent pricing and easy booking, Omio makes travel planning simple, flexible and personal.

Omio is the largest source of inventory, with 1000+ suppliers operating in 39 countries. Our brands also include Rome2Rio for global discovery, while Omio powers ticketing and journeys, which attract 900m+ users every year. Our offices are based in Berlin, Singapore Prague, Melbourne, Brazil, Bangalore, and London.

We are a growing team of more than 400 passionate employees from more than 50 countries who share the same vision: to create a single tool to help send travelers almost anywhere in the world.

Omio is building the future of travel. We’re moving from manual, rule-based systems to AI-driven systems to enhance revenue, efficiency, and competitiveness. The new hub in Singapore is at the forefront of this transformation, driving AI-led innovation and enabling us to scale intelligent solutions for customers across the world. As we make this transition, we’re looking for a Founding AI Engineer based in Singapore who can both build cutting-edge solutions and champion this shift within the company by integrating AI workflows across critical business areas.

Job Description

• Develop AI solutions leveraging LLMs to improve productivity and deliver strong business impact.

• Lead the end-to-end development lifecycle from ideation to deployment of AI-powered solutions across various domains.

• Build scalable AI systems that support Omio’s global expansion goals.

• Act as an evangelist for AI adoption by demonstrating clear value to stakeholders.

• Collaborate with Business, Product, and Engineering teams to integrate AI into workflows and drive adoption.

• Present models, results, and systems to both technical and non-technical audiences, including C-level stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years of experience in software engineering, developing complex models and algorithms.

• Proven track record in designing, implementing, and deploying production-grade AI solutions at scale.

• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively with non-technical stakeholders.

• Self-motivated and capable of working independently, driving initiatives with minimal supervision.

• Prior experience deploying scalable AI and LLM-based solutions for real-time, high-performance systems is highly desirable.

• Experience with diverse model evaluation techniques (quantitative and qualitative) and an iterative approach to improving AI system performance and user outcomes.

Technical Skills and Knowledge

• Expertise in building AI applications using large language models such as OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, LLaMA.

• Experience with LLM orchestration frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, vLLM, LMDeploy.

• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, and SQL.

• Familiarity with data preprocessing, feature engineering, model evaluation, MLOps, and LLMOps best practices.

• Ability to construct Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems for advanced AI workflows.

• Proficiency in vector databases such as FAISS, Weaviate, Pinecone, Milvus.

• Solid grasp of prompt engineering techniques to optimize LLM output.

Hands-on experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.

Additional Information

Learn more about Omio Engineering and our Team:

• https://medium.com/omio-engineering

Here at Omio, we know that no two people are alike, and that’s a great thing. Diversity in culture, thought and background has been key to growing our product beyond borders to reach millions of users from all over the world. That’s why we believe in giving equal opportunity to all, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age or disability.

Hiring process and background checks

At Omio, we work in partnership with Giant Screening, once a job offer has been accepted, Giant will be engaged to carry out background screening. Giant will reach out to you via email and occasionally via telephone/text message so that they can gather all relevant information required. Consent will be requested prior to any information being passed to our services company.