Artificial Intelligence Engineer

NCS is a leading AI Tech Services company. With a 15,000-strong team across the Asia Pacific, NCS scales its platforms and capabilities to provide clients with greater agility and AI expertise across a range of Industries. Embracing a strong ecosystem of global partners, NCS transforms technology services delivery combining AI with digital resilience to drive real business impact. NCS is a subsidiary of the Singtel Group.

Job Description

ABOUT AI CENTRAL

• AI Central (AIC) is NCS’s enterprise AI capability spine — the group responsible for building, productising, and deploying NCS’s AI platforms and reusable assets across regulated and mission-critical sectors. AIC works at the intersection of deep AI engineering and high-stakes client environments in aviation, land transport, public safety, telecommunications, and government.
• AIC is not an internal support function. It is where NCS’s most differentiated AI capabilities are built, validated, and scaled — and where solutions developed in Singapore are prepared for regional deployment across Asia Pacific.

As a Senior / AI Native Builder in AI Central, you will help build, productise, and deploy AI-powered products, MVPs, reusable assets, and new ventures for regulated and mission-critical sectors. You will work in live client contexts, turning ambiguous business challenges into working solutions that can be tested, adopted, and scaled across Singapore and the wider Asia Pacific region.

AI Central is NCS’s enterprise AI capability spine, responsible for building differentiated AI platforms and reusable assets across sectors such as aviation, land transport, public safety, telecommunications, and government.

THE ROLE

• Build what matters, fast.
• Join a startup-style team embedded within one of Singapore’s leading technology services firms, working directly with the Chief AI Officer and senior leaders to turn client opportunities into AI-powered products, MVPs, and new ventures.
• This is a high-autonomy role for experienced builders who thrive in ambiguity and know how to move from problem framing to working solution. You will use AI as a force multiplier across research, design, engineering, and delivery, while staying accountable for real client outcomes.
• We are looking for engineers who can demonstrate that they have designed and deployed consequential AI systems, exercised independent business acumen, critical thinking, and technical judgement under real constraints, and built things that others build on. The right candidate may be early in their career by conventional measures but advanced by the metrics that matter to us.
• You will not be working in a sandbox or building theoretical demos. You will be working in live client contexts, shaping solutions that can be tested, adopted, and scaled.

WHAT YOU WILL OWN

• The AI delivery methodology for your assigned sector vertical
• The reusable asset library emerging from your client engagements — ensuring that solutions built for Singapore lighthouse accounts are documented, abstracted, and ready for regional adaptation
• The technical onboarding and capability development of engineers who join your team

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the journey from client problem statement to working prototype, MVP, or deployable solution
• Translate ambiguous business challenges into clear product hypotheses, technical approaches, and execution plans
• Build and ship AI-enabled solutions using the right combination of software engineering, model orchestration, automation, and design tools
• Make sound trade-offs across speed, quality, security, scalability, and business value
• Advise client technology and business leaders on AI investment priorities, architecture decisions, and build-versus-buy choices — drawing on NCS’s cross-sector experience and AIC’s capability base
• Drive fast experiments and iterative delivery cycles to validate desirability, feasibility, and value
• Contribute reusable patterns, playbooks, and working practices that help NCS scale AI-native delivery across sectors and geographies
• Stay current with emerging AI tools, methods, and frameworks, and apply them where they create measurable advantage
• You are energised by ambiguity and know how to create clarity through action
• You are comfortable defining the scope, shaping the approach, and driving execution with limited hand-holding
• You combine product instinct, engineering depth, and strong judgement
• You work well with senior stakeholders and can challenge assumptions constructively
• You use AI fluently in your day-to-day workflow as a practical multiplier across design, code, research, and delivery
• You care about shipping real solutions that solve meaningfu