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.

Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies
Senior Software Engineer (AI Engineering)
Permanent
Closing on 30 Mar 2027What the role is
What you will be working on
• 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
What we are looking for
• Background 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.
About your application process
This job is closing on 30 Mar 2027.
If you do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the job ad closing date, we seek your understanding that it is likely that we are not moving forward with your application for this role. We thank you for your interest and would like to assure you that this does not affect your other job applications with the Public Service. We encourage you to explore and apply for other roles within Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies or the wider Public Service.
About Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies
The Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies is the lead digital technology agency in the Ministry of Defence, and a member of the Defence Technology Community. Our technical focus areas include Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, Software Engineering, and Cloud Infrastructure and Services. We conduct applied research and develop customised digital solutions to support national missions such as cyber defence and counter-terrorism.
Please visit our website (https://www.csit.gov.sg/) for more info on what we do, for scholarship/internship/career opportunities and more!
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