Director

The Director, APAC AI COE is an executive-level technical leadership and representative role. You will lead an elite, multi-disciplinary R&D engineering squad of Singapore-based Tech FTEs, encompassing engineers, architects, forward-deployed engineers, and project managers. In this dual-hatted role, you will act as the principal strategic architect and chief administrative representative of the COE. Externally, you will serve as the primary executive liaison to the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) and other relevant government bodies, safeguarding alignment with national research guidelines and innovation schemes. You will represent the organization on major open-source governing boards (such as CNCF, LF AI & Data, AAIF) and act as a trusted technical advisor to C-level client executives and regional semiconductor partners. Internally, you will govern the COE's R&D lifecycle. You will ensure the team functions as a high-performance innovation engine, transforming complex regional requirements—such as Sovereign AI, air-gapped security, and heterogeneous hardware tuning—into validated, open-source architectural blueprints and product features.