Agent Application Algorithm Engineer

Department Engineering and Technology

LevelExperienced (Individual Contributor)

LocationSingapore

The Engineering and Technology team is at the core of the Shopee platform development. The team is made up of a group of passionate engineers from all over the world, striving to build the best systems with the most suitable technologies. Our engineers do not merely solve problems at hand; We build foundations for a long-lasting future. We don't limit ourselves on what we can or can't do; we take matters into our own hands even if it means drilling down to the bottom layer of the computing platform. Shopee's hyper-growing business scale has transformed most "innocent" problems into huge technical challenges, and there is no better place to experience it first-hand if you love technologies as much as we do.

About the Team:

About Us

Sea Group is establishing a brand-new, strategic AI department. This department is dedicated to exploring the transformative potential of generative AI in revolutionizing human connection, self-expression and communication diversity, and social interaction. We are building the next generation of AI-native applications and a comprehensive Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) product support system. Based on massive multi-country data, we are building a leading multilingual AI ecosystem from the ground up. We look forward to more outstanding talents joining us to build leading Southeast Asian multilingual models and explore innovative AI-native applications.

The AI application team focuses on the intersection of social connectivity and artificial intelligence. Our mission is to leverage LLMs to create digital personas that can act as personal assistants and social bridges. This team operates with a startup's agility backed by our Group's robust resources, aiming to define how humans interact in the AI era.

Job Description:

• Build core Agent logic, including but not limited to task planning and orchestration, tool calling, multi-turn dialogue management, memory, RAG, context engineering, and multi-agent collaboration.
• Lead Continuous Pre-training and Post-training for vertical domains and business scenarios, including building high-quality datasets and data pipelines, designing RL reward models, improving instruction following and reasoning capabilities, task completion, role-playing, anthropomorphic and personalized dialogue, proactive/reactive immersive multimodal conversation experiences, and enhancing the model's IQ and EQ.
• Build long-term and short-term memory architectures, addressing issues such as forgetting and attention dispersion in long contexts, and improving immersion and consistency in long-term user interactions.
• Build multimodal RAG systems, including development and optimization of key modules such as recall, ranking, long-text processing, and multi-document synthesis.
• Develop the Agent's tool layer, integrating external APIs and MCP such as search, code interpreters, browsers, sandboxes, and third-party services.
• Design and tune prompts and context management, with tailored optimization for different product requirements.
• Design scientifically rigorous quantitative evaluation systems and plans aligned with product requirements; continuously monitor product metrics and provide guidance for Agent and model optimization.
• Explore innovative AI applications.

Requirements:

• Master's degree or above in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Strong programming skills; proficient in PyTorch; familiar with distributed training frameworks such as DeepSpeed and Megatron.
• Strong experience with techniques and principles of LLM training/inference, including but not limited to data synthesis and filtering, model training optimization, prompt engineering, evaluation, deployment, and prototype development.
• Strong problem analysis and resolution skills; sustained interest and curiosity in frontier AI technologies and applications; strong self-drive; able to collaborate closely with teams to drive a full closed loop from research to deployment.
• Good development experience with Agent frameworks such as LangGraph, Google Agent Development Kit, or OWL.
• Strong engineering capabilities; familiar with AI development tools such as Cursor and Claude Code; proactive mindset for improving efficiency.
• Prior project experience in areas such as Agentic reinforcement learning, virtual character generation, multimodal interaction, personality modeling, or memory will be a strong plus