AI Engineer - AI Governance Framework

About the role

AI Singapore (AISG), a national initiative of MDDI, IMDA and NRF, partners with the SAF AI Centre (SAIC) to seek an experienced AI Engineer to help develop and operationalise an AI Governance Framework. SAIC sits within the Digital and Intelligence Service and focuses on operational data science challenges and AI solutions for the Singapore Armed Forces. The position is based at the Kent Ridge Campus.

Key responsibilities

• Contribute to the AI Strategy Roadmap covering objectives, guidelines for AI tools and models, deployment and use-case discovery.
• Help build and implement the AI governance playbook that structures how AI governance challenges and opportunities are handled.
• Work with cross-functional teams to bring AI-related risks into consideration across the full product development lifecycle.
• Report regularly on AI governance effectiveness and track and evaluate those metrics.
• Carry out strategic foresight and research to shape future scenarios and improve AI governance policies.
• Keep stakeholders updated on evolving AI-related legal and regulatory requirements.
• Manage, collaborate with and influence internal senior, cross-functional and external industry and regulatory stakeholders.

Required profile

• Degree in public policy, law, governance, computer science, data science or equivalent.
• 6+ years of experience in governance, risk, compliance, policy, technology assurance or related roles.
• Singapore citizenship is required due to project-specific security requirements.

Required skills

• AI literacy: ability to work with technical teams and understand modern GenAI patterns such as RAG, agentic workflows and multimodal AI.
• Quantitative skills for designing data-driven KPIs, dashboards and governance metrics.
• Ability to evaluate risk in AI-enabled workflows, including retrieval, tool-use automation and human-in-the-loop controls (often via LLMOps).
• Stakeholder management and writing skills, including drafting playbooks, decision matrices and briefing packs.