• Conduct basic and applied research to improve environmental and economic resilience and crop water productivity of various irrigated and dryland cropping systems.
• Develop and refine innovative practices to manage water for sustainable agriculture production for marginally irrigated and dryland cropping systems in a region with increasingly limited availability of water for irrigation.
• Conduct supporting research to enhance the understanding of crop response to water, improve the accuracy of soil water and plant monitoring, and develop and assess water management strategies.

As a University of Applied Learning, SIT works closely with industry in our research pursuits. Our research staff will have the opportunity to be equipped with applied research skill sets that are relevant to industry demands while working on research projects in SIT.

The primary responsibility of this role is to deliver on a Pharmaceutical Innovation Programme Singapore research project where you will be part of a collaborative team exploring innovative ways of understanding extrusion processing for pharmaceutical drug materials and products using rheological measurements.

Key Responsibilities

In this role, you will characterize mixtures of pharmaceutical excipients and drug materials to develop methodologies for screening hot-melt extrusion formulations and selecting optimal operating conditions using rheology, with the objective of producing amorphous-solid-dispersions. You will validate the developed processing space and operating conditions for extruded pharmaceutical formulations using a lab-scale extruder. In collaboration with researchers at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), you will characterize the physical properties and performance of intermediate pharmaceutical drug products. The created methods will be transferred to the industrial partner to enhance their product development process using rheological characterization.

More specific responsibilities include:

• Participate in and manage the research project with Principal Investigator (PI), and the research team members to ensure all project deliverables are met.
• Undertake characterization of pharmaceutical active ingredients, polymeric excipients, and plasticizers for producing amorphous-solid-dispersions.
• Perform lab-scale hot-melt extrusion of pharmaceutical materials to validate predicted processing conditions and product outcomes.
• Collaborate with broader pharmaceutical research team at SMART.
• Design, execute, and interpret experiments independently.
• Author papers in high-quality journals in areas that are related to the research.
• Prepare and deliver reports and presentations for industrial partners
• Carry out Risk Assessment, and ensure compliance with Work, Safety and Health Regulations.
• Coordinate procurement and liaise with vendors/suppliers.
• Work independently, as well as within a team.

Job Requirements

• Have deep hands-on experience with at least one of the areas of polymer rheology, extrusion processing, pharmaceutical engineering with small molecules.
• Relevant competence in the areas of wet lab work, analytical instrumentation, material science and formulation
• Have an advanced degree in chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, materials science and engineering, or a related field.
• Knowledge of any of the following will be advantageous: rheology, physical characterisation, crystallisation, polymer melts, extrusion, material physics.

Key Competencies

• Able to build and maintain strong working relationships with people within and external to the university.
• Self-directed learner who believes in continuous learning and development.
• Proficient in communicating via technical writing and presentations.
• Possess strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Show strong initiative and take ownership of work.

Job Description:

• Responsible for developing and optimizing ion-implantation and rapid thermal anneal (RTA) processes to support IME's various program requirements.
• Responsibilities include diagnosing malfunctions and using test equipment or software to test faulty hardware parts, applying knowledge of the functional operation of the Ion implanter and RTA equipment.
• Collaborates closely with vendors to optimize equipment performance and reduce tool downtime.
• Setup and execute design of experiments (DOEs) at various dose, energy, tilt, and twist levels, and evaluate experimental data to meet required process specifications.
• Responsible for analyzing test data related to implant-related defect formation, and quantifying and minimizing defects.
• Champion process window characterization and evaluation to drive quality and yield improvement.
• Closely collaborate with process integration teams to implement technology roadmaps, define process capability requirements, and address structural implications and constraints related to ion-implantation and RTA processes.
• Work with fab team in establishing statistical process control for ion-implantation and RTA processes.
• Generate and present reports to both internal and external customers.

Requirements:

• Bachelors/Masters in Materials Science and Engineering, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or closely related fields are welcome to apply.
• 3 years direct industry experience in ion-implantation, RTA and SiC MOSFET fabrication is preferred.
• Extensive proficiency in medium and high energy/current ion implantation, and RTA processes, including a comprehensive knowledge of equipment, equipment parts, and troubleshooting techniques to minimize equipment downtime.
• Good understanding of wide bandgap semiconductor materials and their corresponding dopant species.
• Expertise in ion channeling, ion bombardment, and their impact on the implant species profile.
• In-depth comprehension of defect formation and annihilation processes in the implanted region of semiconductors.
• Familiarity with essential device properties resulting from ion implantation and RTA processes.
• Understanding of the hardware of ion-implantation and RTA systems is advantageous.
• Knowledge and prior hands-on experience on basic process characterization techniques such as SEM/TEM, EDX, SIMS, Ellipsometry is advantageous.
• Possess good interpersonal and oral/written communication skills, with ability to deliver clear and concise messages to both internal and external stakeholders.

As a University of Applied Learning, SIT works closely with industry in our research pursuits. Our research staff will have the opportunity to be equipped with applied research skill sets that are relevant to industry demands while working on research projects in SIT.

The primary responsibility of this role is to deliver on an industry innovation research project where you will be part of the research team to optimize the spray drying processes for collagen and gelatine powder production, ensuring high-quality and consistent output.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage research project with Principal Investigator (PI), Co-PI and team members to ensure all project deliverables are met
• Participate in brainstorming and ideation, conduct research and experiments, create functional models, and maintain documentation of design development
• Develop system from embodiment of concept to detailed design of parts and assemblies, including selection of standard components, through application studies, analyses and calculations
• Organise procurement of required electrical and mechanical components as well as commercial devices
• Guide students to carry out assembly of submodules, integration of system and testing of machines
• Coordinate maintenance of associated equipment with POD technical officers when required
• Perform risk assessment, and ensure compliance with workplace safety and health regulations

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in mechanical engineering, or related field.
• Professional-level competency in mechanical system and part design
• Strong prototyping skills
• Proficiency in CAD software, such as SolidWorks or Creo Parametric
• Mechanical engineering degree
• Minimum design experience of 5 years

Key Competencies

• Show strong initiative and take ownership of work.
• Demonstrates expertise in experimental design and execution, with good analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Able to build and maintain strong working relationships with people within and external to the university.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.

As an IT Specialist, you will:

• Develop and implement cutting-edge data analysis and machine learning techniques to extract insights from complex datasets.
• Utilize programming languages (Python, R, etc.) and statistical tools to clean, transform, and analyze diverse data sources.
• Provides guidance on the development and implementation of the corporate information architecture and transformation roadmap that leverages NHTSA’s target state Data Ecosystem including enterprise data management and data governance.
• Maintain knowledge of Federal Cybersecurity framework, zero trust architecture/security model, and the federal cloud computing standards roadmap and their applicability to secure the cloud architectures.
• Ensure compliance with data privacy and security regulations, including performing data anonymization and encryption when necessary.

The ideal candidate must have strong communication and organizational skills and is comfortable presenting project information to managers and executives in the department. The perfect candidate will be capable of managing information technology projects for applications, infrastructure, software as a service, and cloud native implementation, information technology architecture design, operational strategies, system and software migrations.  As a senior-level Information Technology Specialist, the ideal candidate will manage and maintain IT solution software, services, acquisition, development, implementation, testing, and maintenance.

Job Description:

• Responsible for developing and optimizing ion-implantation and rapid thermal anneal (RTA) processes to support IME's various program requirements.
• Responsibilities include diagnosing malfunctions and using test equipment or software to test faulty hardware parts, applying knowledge of the functional operation of the Ion implanter and RTA equipment.
• Collaborates closely with vendors to optimize equipment performance and reduce tool downtime.
• Setup and execute design of experiments (DOEs) at various dose, energy, tilt, and twist levels, and evaluate experimental data to meet required process specifications.
• Responsible for analyzing test data related to implant-related defect formation, and quantifying and minimizing defects.
• Champion process window characterization and evaluation to drive quality and yield improvement.
• Closely collaborate with process integration teams to implement technology roadmaps, define process capability requirements, and address structural implications and constraints related to ion-implantation and RTA processes.
• Work with fab team in establishing statistical process control for ion-implantation and RTA processes.
• Generate and present reports to both internal and external customers.

Requirements:

• Bachelors/Masters in Materials Science and Engineering, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or closely related fields are welcome to apply.
• 3 years direct industry experience in ion-implantation, RTA and SiC MOSFET fabrication is preferred.
• Extensive proficiency in medium and high energy/current ion implantation, and RTA processes, including a comprehensive knowledge of equipment, equipment parts, and troubleshooting techniques to minimize equipment downtime.
• Good understanding of wide bandgap semiconductor materials and their corresponding dopant species.
• Expertise in ion channeling, ion bombardment, and their impact on the implant species profile.
• In-depth comprehension of defect formation and annihilation processes in the implanted region of semiconductors.
• Familiarity with essential device properties resulting from ion implantation and RTA processes.
• Understanding of the hardware of ion-implantation and RTA systems is advantageous.
• Knowledge and prior hands-on experience on basic process characterization techniques such as SEM/TEM, EDX, SIMS, Ellipsometry is advantageous.
• Possess good interpersonal and oral/written communication skills, with ability to deliver clear and concise messages to both internal and external stakeholders.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Singapore Management University is a place where high-level professionalism blends together with a healthy informality. The 'family-like' atmosphere among the SMU community fosters a culture where employees work, plan, organise and play together building a strong collegiality and morale within the university.

Our commitment to attract and retain talent is ongoing. We offer attractive benefits and welfare, competitive compensation packages, and generous professional development opportunities all to meet the work-life needs of our staff. No wonder, then, that SMU continues to be given numerous awards and recognition for its human resource excellence.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The candidate will be responsible for conducting research on learning to optimize research project. Successful candidate will be part of an active research team led by Assistant Prof MA Dong from School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University.

• Literature review
• Developing graph neural network and reinforcement learning assisted optimization algorithm
• Benchmarking with traditional optimization algorithm
• Real-world dataset collecting and testing
• Data analysis and evaluation
• Publishing academic papers

• Minimum Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems or closely related disciplines from a reputable institution of higher learning
• Minimum one year of relevant research experience in machine learning
• Basic knowledge/Proficiency in programming software/languages such as Python will be positively considered/ is required
• Demonstrated experience and know-how on solving optimization problem
• Experience with at least one programming software/languages, such as Pytorch or Tensorflow is preferred
• Excellent working knowledge of machine learning including graph neural network and reinforcement learning
• Good analytical, technical and problem solving skills
• Applicants with research publications in machine learning will be advantageous
• Self-motivated individual who can work independently and also collaboratively with team members

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COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Singapore Management University is a place where high-level professionalism blends together with a healthy informality. The 'family-like' atmosphere among the SMU community fosters a culture where employees work, plan, organise and play together building a strong collegiality and morale within the university.

Our commitment to attract and retain talent is ongoing. We offer attractive benefits and welfare, competitive compensation packages, and generous professional development opportunities all to meet the work-life needs of our staff. No wonder, then, that SMU continues to be given numerous awards and recognition for its human resource excellence.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Curation of SEA food datasets including samples images and recipes
• Training of the model with food datasets
• Experiment setup for user studies

• Minimum bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Information Systems or closely related disciplines from a reputable institution of higher learning
• Good knowledge in AI and generative AI
• Good skill in computer programming
• Good knowledge in dataset curation, including web crawling of images and recipes, data cleaning and preparation of dataset for deep learning
• Knowing at least one of the following Southeast Asia languages: Malay, Tamil, Indonesian, Thailand, Vietnamese, Filipino, Burmese.
• Self-motivated individual who can work independently as well as collaboratively in a team to engineer challenging problems

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As a University of Applied Learning, SIT works closely with industry in our research pursuits. Our research staff will have the opportunity to be equipped with applied research skill sets that are relevant to industry demands while working on research projects in SIT.

The primary responsibility of this role is to advance an industry-focused research project by developing and optimizing an LLM-based chatbot specifically designed for the hotel industry, delivering innovative solutions for guest interaction and data handling to meet industry standards and drive the organization’s technological edge.

Key Responsibilities:

1. LLM Chatbot Development and Optimization

• Design, develop, and maintain an advanced LLM-based chatbot utilizing a multi-agent approach, specifically tailored to the unique needs of the hotel industry.
• Implement solutions for effective data handling, conversation history tracking, and response adaptation to enhance the chatbot’s relevance, accuracy, and safety in real-time interactions.

2. Technical Support and Integration Assistance

• Provide hands-on technical support to collaborating partners, ensuring seamless integration of the chatbot into existing hotel systems.
• Respond to partner feedback by troubleshooting and implementing updates to continually improve chatbot functionality and user experience.

3. Collaboration on Innovative Research and Development

• Work closely with students on LLM-related projects, focusing on the design of novel chatbot solutions that prioritize data security and sensitive information handling within the hotel industry.
• Contribute to developing new methodologies that enhance chatbot capabilities while addressing industry challenges in privacy and data protection.

4. Project Coordination and Reporting

• Work under the guidance of the Principal Investigator (PI) to ensure project milestones are met, maintaining clear and regular communication on progress, challenges, and future needs.
• Document development processes, maintain records of project achievements, and prepare reports as needed to support project goals and stakeholder updates.

Job Requirements:

1. Education and Knowledge

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related field.
• Strong knowledge experience with Large Language Models (LLMs), preferably applied in a business or industry context.
• Familiarity with multi-agent systems, chatbot frameworks, and machine learning techniques.
• Demonstrated experience in collaborative research or development projects.

2. Technical Skills

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, and experience with LLM-related libraries and tools (e.g., Hugging Face, PyTorch, TensorFlow).
• Experience with chatbot development, deployment, and optimization, including integration with partner systems.
• Knowledge of conversational AI best practices, including techniques for maintaining conversation history, data handling, and adaptive response mechanisms.

3. Personal Qualities

• A passion for innovation and a strong desire to create and refine new technologies, particularly in AI-driven solutions for real-world applications.
• Ability to think creatively and proactively solve complex problems while maintaining a high attention to detail.

Key Competencies:

1. Innovative Thinking and Problem Solving

• Ability to approach complex challenges with creative solutions, particularly in applying LLM technology to new and specialized industry applications.

2. Collaboration and Communication

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including partners, students, and team members.
• Capability to translate technical concepts for diverse audiences and incorporate feedback into ongoing development.

3. Technical Proficiency

• Skilled in deploying, fine-tuning, and troubleshooting chatbot systems, with a focus on ensuring functionality, accuracy, and user satisfaction.
• Ability to adapt and scale solutions to address evolving requirements and maintain best practices in data handling and security.

4. Adaptability and Continuous Learning

• Openness to learning new tools and technologies in the rapidly evolving field of LLMs and AI.
• Ability to stay updated on industry trends and integrate relevant advancements into project work.

5. Passion for Innovation

• Strong enthusiasm for creating new, impactful solutions and contributing to advancements in conversational AI for the hotel industry.

Major Challenges:

1. Balancing Innovation with Practicality

• Designing a cutting-edge LLM chatbot that meets high industry standards for innovation, while ensuring that it remains functional, efficient, and practical for real-world use in the hotel industry.

2. Data Privacy and Security

• Ensuring compliance with strict data privacy regulations and implementing robust security measures to protect sensitive customer information, especially given the hospitality sector’s unique data handling needs.

3. Technical Integration with Partner Systems

• Addressing compatibility and integration challenges when embedding the chatbot into diverse hotel management systems and workflows, requiring close coordination and technical support.

4. Adapting to Evolving Industry Needs

• Continuously refining the chatbot to align with changing requirements, including adapting to feedback from partners and staying responsive to emerging trends and user expectations in the hospitality industry.

5. Maintaining High-Quality User Interaction

• Balancing response accuracy and relevance while preserving a conversational, user-friendly experience, which is especially challenging in complex, multi-turn conversations.

6. Resource and Time Constraints

• Achieving project milestones within the one-year contract period, while managing the technical complexities and scope of multi-agent LLM development under limited resources.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Singapore Management University is a place where high-level professionalism blends together with a healthy informality. The 'family-like' atmosphere among the SMU community fosters a culture where employees work, plan, organise and play together building a strong collegiality and morale within the university.

Our commitment to attract and retain talent is ongoing. We offer attractive benefits and welfare, competitive compensation packages, and generous professional development opportunities all to meet the work-life needs of our staff. No wonder, then, that SMU continues to be given numerous awards and recognition for its human resource excellence.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Curation of SEA food datasets including samples images and recipes
• Training of the model with food datasets
• Experiment setup for user studies

• Minimum bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Information Systems or closely related disciplines from a reputable institution of higher learning
• Good knowledge in AI and generative AI
• Good skill in computer programming
• Good knowledge in dataset curation, including web crawling of images and recipes, data cleaning and preparation of dataset for deep learning
• Knowing at least two popular Southeast Asia languages (e.g., English, Chinese, Malay, Tamil, Thailand, Vietnamese). Candidate knowing more than two languages are highly preferred.
• Self-motivated individual who can work independently as well as collaboratively in a team to engineer challenging problems

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• Participate in all phases of the research within a broad area of research requiring a systematic attack of conceptionally related studies.
• Examine how management impacts greenhouse gas emissions and plant nutrient retention as manure is deposited and accumulates on feedlot/drylot surfaces, processed and applied to soils
• Assist in other research directed at quantifying the role of manures to promote soil health, and the development of new forage systems compatible with regional natural resources and result in decreased environmental impacts.
• Explore alternative uses for manure and crop-derived products.

I'm recruiting for a Product Development / R&D Engineer to work with my client who is a global manufacturing company based in Ayrshire.

Responsibilities / Duties;

• Analysis and assessment of large volumes of technical data.
• Preparing technical reports with a high degree of attention to detail.
• Creating design documentation including specifications, drawings, design calculations, models, technical reports, test and trials procedures.
• Support the manufacture by investigating and resolving performance issues.
• Working on multiple projects.

The Candidate:

The successful candidate will have:

• Degree in engineering or scientific discipline.
• The role typically requires a diverse engineering skill set.
• High degree of attention to detail.

Interested applicants are invited to apply directly at the NUS Career Portal

Your application will be processed only if you apply via NUS Career Portal

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Job Description

We seek a full-stack engineer passionate about delivering the best user experience for cutting-edge technology. You will build the back end, which empowers the next-generation AI assistant, and the front end, which creates seamless new workflows.

Responsibilities

• Work with the core research team to idealize design concepts
• Participate in all aspects of agile software development, including design, implementation, and deployment
• Architect and design end-to-end systems optimized for speed and scale
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
• Write technical documentation

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in computer science, information technology, engineering, or related field.
• Interest in learning new tools, languages, workflows, and philosophies
• At least one year of experience in building software applications
• Experience in building web applications, and designing and integrating RESTful APIs are added advantages.
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
• Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g. C#, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Node.js)
• Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache), and UI/UX design
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Experience in unit/integration testing
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Employment type: 12 months' contract

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

As a Research Engineer here, you will be responsible for building AI systems that can perform previously impossible tasks or achieve unprecedented levels of performance. We're looking for people with solid engineering skills (for example designing, implementing, and improving a massive-scale distributed machine learning system), writing bug-free machine learning code, and building the science behind the algorithms employed.

The most outstanding deep learning results are increasingly attained at a massive scale, and these results require engineers who are comfortable working in large distributed systems. We expect engineering to play a key role in most major advances in AI of the future.

We expect you to:

• Have strong programming skills
• Have experience working in large distributed systems
• Be excited about OpenAI’s approach to research

Nice to have:

• Interested in and thoughtful about the impacts of AI technology
• Past experience in creating high-performance implementations of deep learning algorithms

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

Interested applicants are invited to apply directly at the NUS Career Portal

Your application will be processed only if you apply via NUS Career Portal

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Job Description

A Research Engineer position is open in the research group of A/P Wang Xinchao, at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS). The Research Engineer will work closely with the Principal Investigator (PI) on one or more research projects. The candidate will join the research team in the areas of Deep Learning and Vision Applications.

The successful candidate is required to:

• Contribute to Dialogue, Speech Signal Processing and Machine Learning algorithms.
• Contribute to Image Processing and Machine Learning algorithms.
• Contribute to the implementation of Automatic Speech Recognition framework and development of systems.
• Contribute to the implementation of machine learning framework and development of image processing systems.
• To advance the knowledge, to publish in leading journals and conferences.
• To prepare and meet the project deliveries and milestones.

Qualifications

• Recognised degree in Bachelor / Master in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Computer Engineering
• Strong programming skills in one of the programming languages: C / C++, Matlab, Python
• Have prior project related experience
• Good team player and be able to work independently.
• Strong organizational, writing and interpersonal communications.
• Meticulous, able to work well under pressure and commitment to meet tight deadlines
• Open to fixed-term contract.