Backend Engineer - AI Solutions - A26300

Company Overview

Activate Interactive Pte Ltd (“Activate”) is a leading technology consultancy headquartered in Singapore, with a presence in Malaysia and Indonesia. We help clients with quality, cost-effective, and impactful end-to-end application development—including mobile and web applications—and cloud technology that remove technology roadblocks and improve business efficiency.

We believe in positively impacting the lives of people and the environment through the use of technology. We are committed to providing a conducive environment for employees to realize their full potential and continuously drive innovation.

Role

Backend Engineer

Contract Type: 12 months fixed-term contract

If you enjoy being part of a growing company and working on mobile and web technologies that create positive impact, we would love to hear from you.

What You Will Do

As a Backend Engineer, you will design, build, deploy, and operate secure backend services that enable AI, machine learning, and generative AI solutions for government systems and digital services. You will work closely with product, policy, data, cybersecurity, DevOps, and platform teams to translate operational needs into reliable, production-ready systems. You will be proactive and self-motivated, with strong software engineering fundamentals, backend development experience, and an interest in applying backend engineering practices to AI-enabled products and platforms.

• Design, develop, and implement backend services supporting machine learning, generative AI, and other intelligent digital services for government use cases.
• Translate business, policy, and operational requirements into solution designs, technical specifications, and implementation plans.
• Build and maintain backend services for model pipelines, prompt workflows, retrieval-augmented generation solutions, APIs, integrations, and evaluation scripts.
• Conduct model and solution testing to assess accuracy, reliability, robustness, safety, bias, and fitness-for-purpose.
• Support the implementation of responsible AI controls, including guardrails, human oversight, audit logs, access controls, and explainability measures.
• Work with DevOps, cybersecurity, data, and platform teams to deploy AI solutions securely on approved government environments, including GCC where applicable.
• Support monitoring of deployed solutions for model drift, hallucination risks, performance degradation, operational errors, and security concerns.
• Assist in risk reviews, security compliance activities, vulnerability assessments, remediation tracking, and audit documentation.
• Provide technical support, troubleshooting, and optimization for AI solutions across development, UAT, staging, and production environments.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a relevant IT field, with 1–2 years of experience in AI engineering, machine learning engineering, data science, software engineering, or related technical roles.
• Hands-on experience developing backend services, APIs, integrations, or application components that support AI-enabled, enterprise, or government digital services.
• Strong programming experience in Python, with familiarity in API development, testing, and commonly used AI/machine learning libraries or frameworks.
• Experience with large language models, prompt engineering, embeddings, vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation, or AI agent workflows.
• Good understanding of data preparation, model evaluation, MLOps/LLMOps, monitoring, logging, and production support practices.
• Understanding of responsible AI, AI governance, data protection, security, privacy, and risk management considerations in the government context.
• Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, GCC, or other approved enterprise cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, DevSecOps, version control, testing, monitoring, logging, and operational support processes.
• Strong troubleshooting methodology and ability to resolve issues across data, model, application, integration, and infrastructure layers.
• Good communication and documentation skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Skills

• Experience implementing AI-enabled solutions in government, public sector, or regulated industry environments.
• Familiarity with responsible AI frameworks, AI safety testing, model evaluation, redteaming, and risk assessment approaches.
• Exposure to AWS AI/ML services, GCC environments, SHIP-HATS, GitLab CI/CD, or similar secure delivery platforms.
• Knowledge of enterprise monitoring, log analytics, security monitoring, and automated evaluation pipelines.
• Experience working in collaborative environments and Agile development methodologies.
• Strong analytical thinking, systematic problem-solving, and the ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities.

What We Offer in Return

• Fun working environment
• Employee Wellness Program
• Opportunity to work on Singapore Government Agencies projects
• Structured development framework and growth opportunities (SHRI 2025 Gold winner in “Learning & Development; Coaching & Mentoring”)

Why You’ll Love Working With Us

If you are looking for opportunities to collaborate with leading industry experts and work alongside highly motivated and talented peers, we welcome you to join us. We provide equal opportunities to grow and develop. We believe your success is our success.

If you would like to explore this further, contact our team for an initial chat at careers@activate.sg.