GenAI Engineer

About the role

Vitol, an energy and commodities trading company with offices worldwide, is looking for a motivated, technically curious AI Engineer to join its AI team in Singapore on a full-time, permanent basis. This is a hands-on, build-first role working directly with end-users and internal stakeholders to design and deploy LLM-based automation solutions. You will be embedded in a small, high-impact team of experienced practitioners.

Key responsibilities

• Collaborate with end-users across trading, operations and support to identify automation opportunities and develop LLM-based solutions
• Design, prototype and iterate on agentic AI workflows that solve real business problems
• Develop production-ready prompts, AI Skills and MCPs
• Gather stakeholder feedback and refine solutions
• Translate business problems into technical requirements, solution designs and delivery plans, then build, integrate and deploy solutions
• Contribute to the team's shared knowledge base and document your work clearly

Required profile

• Degree in a technical field (Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related) with 3 to 5 years of professional experience in software, data or AI engineering
• Fluency in Python, writing clean, modular, well-documented code
• Familiarity with AI and LLMs, including prompting and agentic patterns such as tool use, function calling or MCP
• Ability to understand the needs of non-technical users and communicate clearly
• Curiosity about commodities markets and energy trading, with a willingness to develop deep domain knowledge

Required skills

• Git and version control
• Docker and containerisation concepts
• Modern full-stack development practices
• Preferred: MCP server/client or RAG pipeline experience, prompt engineering, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), quantitative finance knowledge, and LLM evaluation experience