Senior Software Engineer (AI Engineering)

Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A government technology agency in Singapore is looking for a Software Engineer to develop and maintain scalable AI applications and services. Responsibilities include designing high-quality solutions and collaborating with data scientists. Candidates should have a degree in a quantitative field and at least 3 years of relevant experience, with skills in Python and Java. This is a unique opportunity in a strategic role within a prominent public sector organization.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant work experience.
• Technical leadership experience such as mentoring.
• Familiarity with microservice patterns and architectures.

Responsibilities

• Develop applications and AI/ML services.
• Maintain high-quality code with engineering best practices.
• Enable new AI capabilities through collaboration.

Skills

Python

Java

CI/CD tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Data analysis

Education

Degree in quantitative field

Tools

RDBMS

NoSQL

FastAPI

Flask

Job description

As a Software Engineer in the AI Engineering team, you will develop, deploy and maintain applications, AI/ML services (e.g. LLM services) and data pipelines that support production AI services at scale as well as provide development tooling for our data scientists and product engineers. You will be responsible for designing and developing them in a performant, reliable and maintainable manner while leveraging pragmatic unit, integration and performance testing.

Responsibilities

• Influence the roadmap and development of applications and pipelines
• Deploy and maintain performant AI/ML services
• Design, develop, deploy and maintain high-quality code following engineering and testing best practices
• Work with data scientists, product engineers and users to enable new AI capabilities

Requirements (Minimum Qualifications)

• Degree in quantitative field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics etc) and 3 or more years of relevant work experience
• Proficiency in Python, Java or similar programming languages
• Practical experience with databases such as RDBMS, NoSQL, vector scores
• Experience in software deployment, including with tools for CI/CD and other deployment processes
• Familiarity with containerization and container orchestration platforms (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Good understanding of domain-driven design, microservice patterns and service-oriented architectures
• Technical leadership experience such as mentoring other engineers or driving collaborations with other engineering teams

Nice to haves

• Experience with Python web frameworks (e.g. Flask, FastAPI)
• Experience in designing and maintaining data pipelines with high reliability/throughput requirements
• Experience with deploying and maintaining AI/ML services (e.g. deploying LLM services via vLLM) for high reliability/throughput use cases

As CSIT is an agency under the Ministry of Defence (Singapore), only Singapore Citizens will be considered.