AI Platform Engineer

About Us

Wilhelmsen Ship Management is one of the worlds largest third-party ship managers originated from Oslo Norway with a portfolio of more than 450 vessels a pool of more than 14000 seafarers and over 900 shore-based employees all over the world. Our employees are working with a comprehensive global maritime group providing over half of the merchant fleet with essential products and services along with supplying crew and technical management to the largest and most complex vessels ever to sail.

We offer a culture and vibrant work environment of strong leadership collaborative career development work-life balance and a job that is both challenging and stimulating. All team members are empowered with the freedom to influence each other as long it complies with our Companys values and vision.

About the role

We are building the foundation for AI across WSM.

Our goal is to move from isolated AI experiments to scalable governed and high-impact AI usage across all teams. To achieve this we areestablishinga unified AI platform and enabling teams to use AI as part of their daily work and products.

As an AI Platform Engineer you will build andoperatethis platform and enable teams across WSM to use AI in a safe modern and scalable way.

What Youll Responsible For:

Key Responsibilities

1. AI Platform (Data Dev)

You will build the foundation for AI at WSM.

• Develop a unified AI platform using:
  • Azure AI Foundry
  • Snowflake Cortex AI
  • GitHub ecosystem (Copilot CI/CD)
• Provide a single path for LLM access and agent development
• Build reusable capabilities:
  • RAG pipelines
  • Agent workflows
  • Prompt evaluation and management
• Ensure integration with Snowflake and dbt data foundation
• Embed security cost control and governance by design

2. AI Adoption (Copilot / LLMs)

You will help make AI part of everyday work.

• Roll out and support Copilot and enterprise AI tools
• Reduce friction in access onboarding and usage
• Develop guidelines and guardrails for safe usage
• Provide playbooks and examples for:
  • Coding
  • Writing
  • Analysis

• Track real usage and impact not just licenses

3. Domain AI Enablement

You will support product teams in building AI that creates value.

• Work with domain teams (operations fleet compliance etc.)
• Help teams build use-case driven AI solutions
• Provide reference patterns:
  • RAG on internal data
  • AI agents and workflows
• Promote platform-first over custom ML
• Support production-ready solutions (performance reliability scaling)

What success looks like

• Teams use a common AI platform instead of building ad-hoc solutions
• AI tools are used daily across roles not just in experiments
• Product teams deliver AI-driven capabilities in production
• AI usage at WSM is secure scalable and cost-controlled

Required Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background (backend/platform)
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred)
• Solid understanding of APIs integrations and system design
• Experience with data platforms (e.g. Snowflake SQLdbtor similar)
• Exposure to LLMs embeddings or RAG concepts

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Azure AI services or similar platforms
• Familiarity with GitHub and developer tooling
• Experience building internal platforms or enabling other teams
• Interest in applying AI toreal businessproblems

Why join WSM

• Build a core platform used across the entire company
• Work at the intersection of engineering data and AI
• Enablereal businessimpact in fleet operations and customer domains
• Be part of a pragmatic product-focused engineering organization

Location

The position will be based in Kuala Lumpur officelocatedat KLSentralwhich is a strategic work location with convenience travelling by Monorail Rapid Kelana Jaya Line MRT and KTM services as well as easy to get to go by public transportation.

What We Offer

• 5-dayswork week including complying with Malaysias Public Holiday
• International work environment and culture
• Great learning and development opportunities
• Hybrid working arrangement (3 days in the office 2 days remotely)

*Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

Become a valued member of our team where every day presents new opportunities for learning and development. Sound interesting Click APPLY now to embark on a rewarding career journey!

Please note that all positions at Wilhelmsen are subject to reference and ID checks. For certain roles additional background screening may be required.

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