Software Engineer (LLM/AI)

KAISHI PARTNERS PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An AI tech startup in Singapore is seeking an engineer with deep expertise in applied AI to own significant aspects of their decision-making engine. Responsibilities include both AI/ML development and product integration, ensuring a tangible impact on customers. Candidates should have over 2 years of experience, particularly with LLMs. This position requires in-person work and offers a chance to contribute to a growing company culture.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2+ years of experience in shipping production software.
• Experience with LLMs, or robust ML engineering is essential.
• Ability to design and measure agent workflows and prompt chaining.

Responsibilities

• Own a large chunk of the decision-making engine involving LLM prompt/design.
• Ensure core work's impact is delivered to customers by building integrations.
• Work in-person in Singapore and help shape a great company culture.

Skills

Production software shipping

LLM experience

Agent workflow design

Autonomy in work

Frontend development skills

Backend development skills

Tools

TypeScript

React

Next.js

Go

PostgreSQL

Job description

Overview

Kaishi is currently working with a very early stage AI tech startup here in Singapore to seek an engineer who is deep in applied AI but broad enough to jump into any layer of the stack when the startup roller-coaster demands it.

Responsibilities

• 80% – AI/ML: You’ll get the chance to own a large chunk of our decision-making engine, working on everything from LLM prompt-/tool-design, retrieval pipelines, evaluation harnesses, agent orchestration, latency + cost tuning
• 20% – Product/full-stack: You are able to also make sure that the impact of your core work is actually getting delivered to our customers, this might include building React flows, Go APIs, observability dashboards, integrations with customer systems or other providers

What you should have

Must-have:

• 2+ yrs shipping production software, incl. any experience building with LLMs (OpenAI, Claude, etc.) or non-LLM ML engineering
• Can design and measure agent workflows: prompt chaining, RAG, vector stores, guardrails, eval suites
• You thrive when you have autonomy, own as many of the details as possible, and project manage your own work
• Willing to work in-person in Singapore, and you’re serious about building a culture we’ll all love

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with Twilio APIs or other telephony experience
• Experience with email delivery / SMTP systems

Tech

• Frontend: TypeScript, React, Next.js, TailwindCSS
• Backend: Go, PostgreSQL