Founding AI Software Engineer (Permanent)

Founding AI Software Engineer (Permanent)

Location: Thailand

Employment Type: Permanent, Full-time

Location Type: Hybrid (Thailand office + remote collaboration)

Department: AI Engineering

Build AI Systems That Make Finance Smarter, Simpler, and More Inclusive

A leading regional fintech company is looking for a Founding AI Software Engineer to help design and build the next generation of intelligent systems powering personalization, fraud detection, automation, and search across millions of users in Southeast Asia.

This is a permanent role based in Thailand, working closely with regional teams and headquarters across Asia. Youll be joining at an early stage, with the opportunity to shape technical direction and directly influence outcomes at scale.

Why This Role Matters

• Direct impact: your work will shape user experiences for millions.
• Hands-on execution: build and ship production-grade AI systems.
• Regional exposure: collaborate with teams across Southeast Asia.
• Career growth: fast progression in a lean, high-impact environment.

What You'll Do

• Define ML goals and technical strategies in collaboration with product and data teams.
• Design, build, and deploy models for personalization, automation, and insights.
• Own the ML lifecycle: preprocessing, feature engineering, training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Build scalable ML infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• Integrate ML outputs into user-facing products and backend services.
• Debug, test, and optimize production ML systems.
• Stay current with AI/ML trends and apply innovations into production.

You'll Thrive Here If You

• Take full ownership and focus on real-world results.
• Adapt quickly, ship fast, and improve even faster.
• Enjoy solving problems end-to-end, from data to deployment.
• Collaborate openly and raise the bar for your peers.
• Thrive in a startup-paced, high-growth environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field.
• 2-4 years of experience in machine learning or backend software development.
• Strong Python skills (must-have).
• Proficiency with ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn).
• Solid understanding of ML workflows: data cleaning, model building, tuning, and evaluation.
• Familiarity with deployment, API development, or real-world ML integration.
• Experience with Google Colab, Jupyter, or cloud ML platforms.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Thai Citizenship, with the ability to work in a hybrid setup from Thailand.

Nice to Have

• Experience with NLP, computer vision, or recommendation systems.
• Familiarity with cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Exposure to Docker, Git, or CI/CD pipelines.
• Background in high-growth startups or agile environments.

What You'll Get

• Permanent opportunity with a competitive salary and performance bonuses.
• Hybrid work setup with flexibility plus in-person collaboration.
• High visibility and direct impact on products serving millions of users.
• Flat team structure where your contributions are recognized.
• Rapid technical and personal growth.
• Regional collaboration across Southeast Asia.