Forward Deployed Engineer - AUS
Hybrid (Singapore)A$135k - A$360kFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Senior technical lead role focused on designing, building, and deploying enterprise AI systems leveraging OpenAI models and tooling. Combines hands-on software engineering with architecture, mentorship, and production-readiness to deliver durable, scalable AI applications for large enterprise customers. Hybrid Singapore-based position with travel as needed.
Responsibilities
- Lead software engineering workstreams for customer deployments, owning architecture, implementation quality, evaluation strategy, and production readiness for LLM-powered systems.
- Build AI applications, agents, and workflow tools using LLMs, retrieval, orchestration, APIs, data systems, and production software practices.
- Guide engineers through ambiguous technical problems, reviewing designs, code, tradeoffs, and operating assumptions.
- Work directly with customer technical teams and business stakeholders to translate workflows into reliable AI systems.
- Prototype quickly, identify what is reusable, and harden successful patterns into reference architectures and implementation assets.
- Design evaluation and monitoring approaches that improve quality, reliability, safety, and customer trust.
- Surface field insights to Product and Research, connecting deployment reality to roadmap priorities and model/system improvements.
Qualifications
- Senior software engineering experience building production applications and microservices, including APIs, scalable data pipelines, data systems, and cloud infrastructure.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL to design and build robust data applications in enterprise environments.
- Production LLM experience, including leading teams delivering generative AI systems with hands-on understanding in agents, retrieval, evaluation, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and model integration.
- Experience leading software engineering projects from prototype to production and setting high-quality standards while maintaining velocity.
- Hands-on, player-coach ability: writing code, reviewing designs, mentoring engineers, and owning customer outcomes.
- Strong communication with executive, product, research, customer, and engineering audiences when decisions involve risk or ambiguity.
- Ability to balance standardization with necessary customization; avoid bespoke overhead where possible.
- Calm under pressure with the ability to turn deployment challenges into reusable engineering patterns.
Skills
Required:Software engineering leadershipPythonSQLLLM/Generative AI
Benefits
- Equity offers (not specified)
- Hybrid work in Singapore with travel as needed
Last updated Aug 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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