Senior Software Engineer - Food

Job Purpose and Impact

• • The Senior Software Engineer will lead the design, architecture, build, deployment, and ongoing support of complex AI Assistants, AI Agents, and automation solutions-leveraging ChatGPT-based copilots, Copilot Studio agents, and Power Automate workflows-while adhering to Food APAC AI CoE platform standards and guardrails. Deliverables typically span APIs and integration services, retrieval and vector-search pipelines, enterprise-scale LLMOps / AgentOps operational tooling, and intuitive front-end experiences for office users and plant operators.
    
    This role will work primarily within the Food APAC Digital Technology and Data team, owning and shaping solutions across the Food APAC technology stack that serve internal teams and customers. The Senior Software Engineer will act as a technical leader and trusted partner to the business Product Owner, translating complex product requirements into secure, scalable, observable, and cost-efficient services or agents; managing the lifecycle from experiment to production; and proactively improving reliability, latency, performance, and cost.

• Lead development of Agentic AI workflows, AI assistants, and multi-agent automation solutions.
• Design scalable Python microservices, APIs, LLM, RAG, and vector search architectures.
• Implement prompt engineering, response grounding, caching, and performance optimization strategies.
• Drive testing, debugging, security, reliability, and production support for AI applications.
• Own monitoring, observability, incident management, and operational excellence practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver business-focused AI solutions.
• Ensure adherence to enterprise architecture, governance, cybersecurity, and Responsible AI standards.
• Strong expertise in Python, cloud-native technologies, APIs, CI/CD, containerization, LLM/RAG frameworks, vector databases, and AI platforms such as Copilot Studio, ChatGPT, Power Automate, Salesforce, and Service Cloud.

• Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.
  
  • Typically reflects 4 years or more of relevant experience, including 3+ years working with cloud-native AI/ML or GenAI systems on Azure, AWS, or GCP, or 2+ years of software development experience.

We are a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials - from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel.

Today, the need to make our food system more sustainable and resilient is urgent. Sitting at the heart of the global supply chain, we have a unique ability, and responsibility, to help. Through innovations, strategic partnerships, and 159 years of experience, we help businesses grow, and communities and people around the world flourish — today, and for generations to come.