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AI Engineer – NLP, Python

HCL SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
Singapore 6+ years Posted Mar 13, 2026

Salary Range

SGD 84,000 - SGD 120,000 /year

SGD 7,000 - SGD 10,000/month

Skills Required

Machine Learningrelevant dataDesignComputer EngineeringRegulatory ComplianceArtificial IntelligenceSoftware EngineeringSemantic SearchNLPDesign-BuildSoftware DevelopmentC++

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and enhance AI/NLP solutions including:

- Clause extraction from unstructured documents.
- Semantic comparison against standard/reference clauses.
- Risk identification and classification.

  • Process and analyze unstructured financial and legal documents (Word, PDF, scanned files), including multilingual content (e.g., German and English).
  • Develop and finetune semantic similarity and embedding‑based models to detect contextually similar clauses with different wording.
  • Support creation and maintenance of a structured clause and policy repository aligned to Organization’s standards (e.g., trade finance guarantees).
  • Collaborate closely with Organization’s SMEs, product owners, and compliance stakeholders to translate business and regulatory requirements into AI logic.
  • Implement explainable AI approaches to ensure traceability and auditability of AI‑generated outputs.
  • Support POC development, client demos, and iterative refinements based on the feedback.
  • Expose AI capabilities through secure APIs and integrate with downstream systems as required.
  • Ensure adherence to data privacy, confidentiality, and secure coding standards expected in a Tier‑1 bank environment.

Skills Requirement

  • Bachelors degree in Engineering/Information Technology/Computer Science or a related field.
  •  6-8 years of experience in relevant field.
  • Hands‑on expertise in NLP, semantic search, and document intelligence, with a strong emphasis on accuracy, explainability, and regulatory compliance, in line with Organization’s risk and governance standards.

Technical Skills

Programming: Strong proficiency in Python, Doc AI, Vertex AI

NLP / GenAI

  • Text preprocessing, embeddings, semantic similarity.
  • Transformer‑based models and LLMs.
  • Prompt engineering and controlled generation techniques.


Frameworks & Libraries

  • Hugging Face, spaCy, NLTK
  • PyTorch or TensorFlow
  • Scikit‑learn

Document Intelligence: PDF / Word parsing, OCR integration for scanned documents.

Backend & Integration: REST API development using FastAPI / Flask.

Data Handling: Working with structured and unstructured datasets.

Version Control: Git, basic CI/CD exposure.