AI Architect (On-Premises Agentic Stack)

About the role

DSO National Laboratories, Singapore's largest defence R&D organisation, is hiring an AI Architect within its Digital Division, which leads digital transformation through master planning, policies and IT infrastructure. The AI Architect leads the design, implementation and maintenance of a full-stack, on-premises AI agentic system and reports directly to the Chief Digital Officer.

Key responsibilities

• Own the technical vision, end-to-end design and deployment of the high-performance, full-stack on-premises AI infrastructure.
• Design and maintain autonomous multi-agent systems and orchestration frameworks.
• Partner with the CDO to turn business strategy into concrete implementation plans and technical milestones.
• Work with risk, compliance and security teams to build guardrails and controls for on-premises AI.
• Work on bare-metal deployments, GPU compute clusters, specialized networking and containerized orchestration workflows.
• Monitor emerging trends and capabilities and integrate them into the tech stack.

Required profile

• Degree in Computer Science.
• 8+ years of enterprise systems architecture experience, with a focus on leading engineering teams and owning large-scale infrastructure projects.
• Proven hands-on experience designing, implementing and scaling end-to-end AI tech stacks.
• Open-minded communicator able to translate business requirements into technical architecture.
• At least one professional, expert-level architecture certification (e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or TOGAF).

Required skills

• Proficiency with open-source LLMs and local agentic orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, AutoGen and CrewAI.
• Docker and Kubernetes.
• Local MLOps toolchains.