How to become an artificial intelligence or Machine learning engineer

Official title: Artificial intelligence/Machine learning engineer

Also called: Artificial intelligence (AI) engineer, Machine Learning (ML) engineer, AI/ML Engineer, Senior AI/ML Engineer

Artificial intelligence (AI)/Machine learning (ML) engineer supports the production of scalable and optimised AI/ML models. He/she focuses on building algorithms for the extraction, transformation and loading of large volumes of real-time, unstructured data in order to deploy AI/ML solutions from theoretical data science models. He/she runs experiments to test the performance of deployed models, and identifies and resolves bugs that arise in the process.

Main tasks

• Writing and maintaining programme code outlined in instructions and specifications in accordance with quality accredited standards
• Revising, repairing or expanding existing programmes to increase operating efficiency or adapt to new requirements
• Conducting trial runs of programmes and software applications to confirm that they will produce the desired information
• Compiling and writing documentation of programme development
• Identifying and communicating technical problems, processes and solutions

Ways in

• University: Computing & IT degrees, Offered by 5 universities in Singapore
• University: Engineering degrees, Offered by 4 universities in Singapore

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.

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• Applications/Systems programmer
• Artificial intelligence applied researcher
• Systems designer/analyst
• ICT business process consultant/business analyst
• Enterprise/Solution/Software architect
• ICT product manager

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Questions people ask

How do I become an artificial intelligence or Machine learning engineer?

Ways in include: Computing & IT degrees; Engineering degrees.

Will AI change the work of an artificial intelligence or Machine learning engineer?

Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026