
Senior AI Engineer
Zalora Southeast Asia Pte. Ltd.26 days ago
Ho Chi Minh City, VietnamSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and build production-grade AI/ML systems, including LLM-powered applications, predictive models, and intelligent automation.
- Own the full AI engineering lifecycle from prototyping and evaluation through deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
- Build reusable retrieval pipelines, evaluation frameworks, prompt and version management, and MLOps tooling.
- Partner with data engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders to identify and deliver high-impact AI use cases.
- Translate ambiguous business problems into scoped technical solutions and communicate trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Establish best practices for testing, evaluation, observability, cost management, and responsible AI deployment.
- Mentor engineers and help raise the team’s technical standards for applied AI.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software or data engineering experience, including at least 2+ years building and shipping AI/ML systems in production.
- Strong Python programming skills and comfort with SQL, including experience building reliable and well-tested services and pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with at least one of LLM application development, classical ML/predictive modeling, or ML platform/MLOps engineering.
- Practical experience with cloud data platforms, preferably GCP/BigQuery, or AWS/Azure, and modern data tooling such as dbt or Airflow.
- Understanding of AI/ML system design trade-offs involving latency, cost, evaluation, data quality, and failure modes.
- Strong communication and documentation skills for explaining technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- A pragmatic, product-minded approach to moving from ambiguous problems to shipped solutions.
- Experience with Anthropic or OpenAI APIs, vector databases, or agentic frameworks is a plus.
- Background in e-commerce, marketplace, or retail data domains is a plus.
- Experience in bilingual English/Vietnamese or Southeast Asian regional environments is a plus.
- Familiarity with data governance, experimentation frameworks, or responsible AI practices is a plus.
Benefits
- Opportunity to shape AI applications across a leading Southeast Asian e-commerce platform.
- Collaborative, cross-functional environment with direct exposure to senior stakeholders.
- Flexible hybrid working arrangements.
- Competitive compensation and a culture focused on pragmatic, high-impact engineering.