Principal Software Engineer Agentic AI (Hybrid)

Job Overview

Tyco Electronics Singapore Pte Ltd (TE Connectivity) is looking for a Principal Scientist/Engineer to join our Corporate R&D Center. The Scientist/Engineer will be part of a newly formed Artificial Intelligence team to create an AI Hub for TE in Singapore. Team members will collaborate with R&D peers business unit partners as well as local university and government research centers to undertake projects that will embed AI in TEs design and process development work flows to deliver a competitive advantage to TEs technologies. This position is based at our Singapore HQ.

The Singapore Corporate R&D Center is chartered to work with the CTOs and Advanced Development Groups of TE Business Units to identify technical areas of interest for R&D and develop forward looking technologies that will deliver broad value to the order to improve the New Product Development process TE is expanding our Artificial Intelligence capabilities as a part of our Digitalization strategy to improve efficiency decrease cost and decrease time to market.

Job Responsibilities

• Define and own the technical vision reference architecture and multi-year roadmap for an enterprise-scale agentic AI platform supporting engineering users in product design and manufacturing process development.
• Lead the design implementation and deployment of secure scalable and reliable platform capabilities including orchestration frameworks retrieval evaluation observability and integration with enterprise systems.
• Align multiple business units IT cybersecurity data and global engineering teams on platform standards governance operating model and adoption strategy while guiding teams on effective platform utilization.
• Lead complex programs and external partnerships end-to-end including vendor evaluation delivery governance prioritization of high-value use cases and realization of measurable business impact.
• Drive technical decisions on LLMs multi-agent/agentic AI frameworks cloud and hybrid infrastructure and high-performance computing to continuously strengthen platform capability.
• Serve as a key technical member in the Singapore Corporate R&D Center creating awareness across TE and influencing senior stakeholders on AI platform strategy risks and outcomes.
• Partner with Singapore research institutes and external technology ecosystems to evaluate advanced AI techniques guide validation and accelerate knowledge transfer into production TE applications.

Job Requirements

• Master degree in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Software Engineering or a related field with 12 years (or Bachelor degree with 15 years or PhD degree with 10 years) of relevant working/research experience
• Deep expertise in LLMs multi-agent and agentic AI frameworks and hands-on software engineering and programming skills
• Proven track record deploying and scaling enterprise AI platforms or products in production with strong architecture knowledge across cloud data security DevOps MLOps LLMOps and governance
• Strong communication stakeholder management and influence skills across senior technical and business audiences
• Demonstrated ability to define technical strategy and lead complex cross-functional programs independently
• Strong interest in R&D involving hands-on coding experimentation and data-driven problem solving
• Experience establishing effective delivery project management and execution mechanisms across multiple concurrent initiatives
• Working knowledge of engineering domains such as materials manufacturing processes product design or industrial systems

Preferred:

• Experience applying AI in engineering manufacturing or industrial R&D environments; familiarity with TE products such as connectors cables sensors etc.
• Broad knowledge of different materials mechanical electrical and thermal properties including polymers metals and alloys
• Broad knowledge of manufacturing processes (molding extrusion plating stamping assembly etc.) material development and product design

Competencies