Lead AI Infrastructure Engineer

Thoughtworks Singapore will be shortlisting applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore i.e. Singapore Citizens and Singapore Permanent Residents only.

At Thoughtworks, Lead AI Infrastructure Engineers design and maintain high-performance, scalable, and resilient infrastructure for modern AI workloads. Youll focus on enabling advanced inference systems, including LLMs, VLMs, and SLMs, across on-premises GPU clusters and cloud environments. This role is critical to ensuring our clients AI systems achieve demanding requirements for throughput, latency, availability, and compliance.

As a senior technical leader, you will partner with ML engineers, platform engineers, AI researchers, and client stakeholders to deliver optimized infrastructure that is both robust and future-proof. You will combine deep expertise in GPU-based inference infrastructure with a broader understanding of DevOps, agile delivery, and platform engineering to drive impactful AI solutions at enterprise scale.

Job responsibilities

• Design and operate GPU-based infrastructure (e.g., NVIDIA GB200, H100) across cloud and self-hosted environments.
• Architect scalable inference platforms that support real-time and batch serving with high availability, load balancing, and fault tolerance.
• Integrate inference workloads with orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes, Slurm, and Ray, as well as observability stacks like Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployment using Terraform, Helm, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to co-design systems optimized for low-latency serving, continuous batching, and advanced inference optimization techniques (quantization, distillation, pruning, KV caching).
• Lead client engagements by shaping technical roadmaps that align AI infrastructure with business objectives, ensuring compliance, scalability, and performance.
• Champion DevOps and agile practices to accelerate delivery while maintaining reliability, quality, and resilience.
• Mentor and guide teams in best practices for AI infrastructure engineering, fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation.

Job qualifications

Technical Skills

• Expertise in GPU-based infrastructure for AI (H100, GB200, or similar), including scaling across clusters.
• Strong knowledge of orchestration frameworks: Kubernetes, Ray, Slurm.
• Experience with inference-serving frameworks (vLLM, NVIDIA Triton, DeepSpeed).
• Proficiency in infrastructure automation (Terraform, Helm, CI/CD pipelines).
• Experience building resilient, high-throughput, low-latency systems for AI inference.Strong background in observability and monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry.
• Familiarity with security, compliance, and governance concerns in AI infrastructure (data sovereignty, air-gapped deployments, audit logging).
• Solid understanding of DevOps, cloud-native architectures, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Exposure to multi-cloud and hybrid deployments (AWS, GCP, Azure, sovereign/private cloud).
• Experience with benchmarking and cost/performance tuning for AI systems.
• Background in MLOps or collaboration with ML teams on large-scale AI production systems.

Professional Skills

• Proven ability to partner with senior client stakeholders (CTO, CIO, COO) and translate technical strategy into business outcomes.
• Skilled at leading multi-disciplinary teams and building trust across diverse technical and business functions.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex AI infrastructure concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfortable navigating uncertainty, making pragmatic decisions, and adapting quickly to evolving technologies.
• Passionate about creating scalable, sustainable, and high-impact solutions that help transform industries with AI.

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Learning & Development

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