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GovTech Singapore

Government digital services delivery and infrastructure

Senior AI Cybersecurity Engineer

AI Application EngineeringPosted on Nov 12
Full-timeSingaporeNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and TypeScript or JavaScript.
  • Solid grounding in backend services, APIs, data stores, containers, and CI/CD on at least one major cloud platform.
  • Good engineering practices, including automated testing, code review, clear system design, and documentation.
  • Hands-on experience building and shipping at least one agentic or large language model-powered application.
  • Practical command of tool calling, context management, multi-step orchestration, structured outputs, and agent protocols such as MCP.
  • Experience evaluating large language model systems, including writing evaluations, iterating on prompts, and managing cost and latency.
  • Awareness of system failure modes, including hallucination, non-determinism, and prompt injection, and the ability to design around them.
  • Routine use of AI tools in engineering workflows.
  • Working knowledge of attack techniques across web and API security, whitebox testing, cloud security, and infrastructure/red team operations, with hands-on experience in at least two domains.
  • Knowledge of web and API security, including the OWASP Top 10, authentication and authorisation flaws, injection, SSRF, and business logic abuse.
  • Ability to read source code to find vulnerabilities, trace them to an entry point, and prove they are exploitable.
  • Knowledge of cloud security, including IAM misconfiguration, privilege escalation, and service abuse on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Knowledge of infrastructure and red team operations, including network attacks, Active Directory, lateral movement, command and control, and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
  • Ability to write proof-of-concept exploits and explain findings clearly to engineers.
  • Eligibility is limited to Singaporeans.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build production agentic systems that carry out security testing autonomously, including planning, tool use, memory, and multi-agent orchestration.
  • Translate attacker tradecraft into agent capabilities, including tools, prompts, workflows, and decision logic.
  • Build agent tooling such as exploit harnesses, sandboxed execution environments, browser and API automation, and code analysis.
  • Build evaluation harnesses and benchmarks to measure vulnerability discovery, false positives, and the cost of each run.
  • Reproduce and triage agent findings, then feed lessons back into the system.
  • Build safety controls for agents, including target scoping, guardrails, human approval points, and audit logging.
  • Ship and operate software end to end, including services, APIs, user interfaces, CI/CD, tests, and observability.
  • Use AI coding assistants and agents in daily work and improve the team's practices for using them.
  • Lead technical design, review code, and mentor other engineers.
  • Keep current with new attack techniques and developments in large language models and agent tooling.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience on a penetration testing or red team.
  • Offensive security certifications such as OSCP or OSWE.
  • A track record in CTFs, bug bounty programmes, or published CVEs.
  • Contributions to open-source security or agent tooling.
  • Experience securing AI systems, such as agent sandboxing and prompt injection defence.
  • Front-end experience with a modern framework such as React.

About the Company

GovTech Singapore

Government digital services delivery and infrastructure

GovTech Singapore builds and maintains government digital services and national digital infrastructure for citizens and businesses. It develops Smart Nation infrastructure and applications and collaborates with citizens and businesses to co-develop technologies. Its offerings are government-focused, delivered through public-sector platforms rather than consumer apps, and designed with a citizen-centric, outside-in approach. Its goal is to improve the delivery of public digital services at scale and advance Singapore’s Smart Nation by creating accessible, reliable digital government infrastructure.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Singapore, Singapore
Founded
2016

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