Lead AI Engineer Full-time

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Lead AI Engineer who is pivotal in driving the development and deployment of cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning models, fostering innovation and support in establishing a Center of Excellence (CoE) for Generative AI (GenAI) in Singtel. The Lead AI Engineer will collaborate closely with stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to identify AI opportunities and design AI solutions to address business use cases. You will be part of Group IT – Data & Platform Management (DPM) team driving data and analytics initiatives with the business. Additionally, the Lead AI Engineer will play a crucial role in developing and promoting standards across the community, driving, and promoting the democratization of GenAI, and supporting in building the GenAI Center of Excellence to enable the respective business units and functions.

Make an Impact by:

Innovation and Exploration:

• Lead innovation initiatives and exploration of GenAI technologies
• Stay abreast of the latest developments in generative AI research and contribute to Proof-of-Concept projects
• Democratisation of GenAI:
• Drive and promote the democratisation of GenAI across the organization
• Develop and promote standards to ensure consistency and quality in GenAI implementations

Center of Excellence (CoE) Establishment:

• Support in building and nurturing a GenAI Center of Excellence (CoE)
• Identify capabilities and provide guidance, mentor, training, and problem-solving assistance
• Enable business units and functions in leveraging GenAI capabilities effectively
• AI Design and Development, and Maintenance:
• Design AI solutions for business use cases, encompassing both existing and new systems and processes
• Design and implementation of generative AI and machine learning models
• Running AI and ML Ops for IT-managed applications
• Support in managing vendors to achieve defined delivery and operations objectives

Model Optimization and Experimentation:

• Optimize generative models & prompts for performance, scalability, and efficiency
• Experiment with advanced generative algorithms such as GANs, VAEs, MoE (Mixture of Experts), Large-language Model (LLM) Merging and others

Data Analysis and Pre-processing:

• Analyse and pre-process large datasets to uncover patterns relevant to Generative AI Modelling
• Handling different modalities of data including unstructured text, image, audio and video
• Analyse the model response and track the LLM model drift and data drift for optimal retraining of GenAI models Contribute to data quality and feature engineering processes to enhance model performance

Deployment and Integration:

• Deploy generative models into production environments
• Collaborate with software engineer for seamless integration into applications and systems

AI Technology Expertise:

• Stay updated with the latest advancements in AI, GenAI and machine learning
• Contribute to projects to push the boundaries of GenAI technologies

Skills for Success

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, AI / ML Engineering, Business Analytics or equivalent
• A minimum of 10 years of professional experience in the data engineering and analytics field, including 5 years in Data Science / AI / Machine Learning engineering with a focus on Generative AI technologies
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python,Rust and SQL
• Fundamental coding skills are crucial for developing AI solutions
• Expertise in Generative AI frameworks and libraries, e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI, Langraph, llamacpp & OpenAI. Specific expertise relevant to the job role
• Expertise in Data science and machine learning frameworks and libraries, such as Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, and PyTorch. Core skills for AI/ML development.
• Strong understanding of data pre-processing, feature engineering, and model evaluation techniques. Critical for developing effective AI models
• Good knowledge on Prompt engineering techniques and cost optimization strategies for Closed Source LLMs.
• Valuable for efficiency and optimization but more specialized
• Experience in fine-tuning open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) such as Llama 2, Gemma, Mixtral, Phi-2, Orca2,function calling LLMs etc. Directly relevantto leading-edge AI projects.
• Proficiency in developing LLM-based RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
• Familiarity with cloud-based AI services and platforms, with a preference for Azure.
• Useful but not exclusive; knowledge of other platforms is also valuable
• Good knowledge of Multimodal language models, embeddings, including Llava, GPT-4V, and Gemini. Enhances the capability to work on diverse AI projects but is more specialized
• Experience working with closed-source Large Language Models, e.g., OpenAI, Gemini & mistral.
• Beneficial for working with proprietary technologies but not a fundamental requirement
• Good understanding of embedding models and embedding pipelines.
• Supports specific types of AI applications pipelines with Vector databases & Graph databases. Important for advanced AI applications
• Ability to develop LLMbased agentic workflows to support suitable business use cases. Essential for applying AI to real-world problem
• Experience in LLM model & prompt evaluation.
• Important for quality assurance but can be complemented by broader experience
• Familiarity with LLMops (Observability) for efficient monitoring and management of models in production environments.
• Useful for operational aspects but not a core skill
• Experience with Git and Agile software project management tools, such as JIRA, Confluence, and CI/CD pipelines. Necessary for modern software development practices.
• Strong experience in converting business requirement into technical requirement and providing end to end solution flow for AI applications

Rewards that Go Beyond

• Flexible work arrangement
• Full suite of health and wellness benefits
• Ongoing training and development programs
• Internal mobility opportunities

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