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Algorithm and AI Senior/Staff Engineer

On-site · Singapore, Singapore

Type
Full Time
Level
Senior Level
Education
Masters Degree
Company size
Unknown

Job Summary

Design and deliver reliable, efficient AI applications and LLM-powered agent systems. Architect and deploy end-to-end agent solutions including chatbots, copilots, and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines; implement context engineering, safety guardrails, and production-grade monitoring. Lead cross-functional collaboration to meet product requirements, optimize latency and cost, and mentor junior AI engineers while advancing reproducibility and engineering standards for LLM-based products across web and internal platforms.

Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in production-level chatbot development
  • at least 1 year experience in building LLM-based agents
  • Hands-on with major LLMs/APIs (OpenAI, LangChain or Anthropic, Hugging Face)
  • Expertise in prompt and context engineering for LLMs
  • Deep experience with RAG pipelines and vector/hybrid search (e.g., FAISS, pgvector, Pinecone), rerankers, and grounding/citation techniques
  • Experience developing and integrating tools using Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • Multilingual support in chatbot designs
  • Python programming (mandatory); familiarity with TypeScript, Java/JavaScript, or Matlab advantageous
  • Experience managing AI agent safety, content moderation, red-teaming, and hallucination mitigation
  • Observability tools and practices (logging, distributed tracing, metrics)
  • AWS SageMaker, Bedrock, and Step Functions for production-grade AI agents
  • Experience in biotechnology industry is a plus
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Ability to work independently and in cross-functional teams
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