Scientist/Senior Scientist (DMD Division/CPPS Group), SIMTech

Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Singapore
4 months ago
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Job Description:

The CPPS group is seeking a highly motivated scientist or senior scientist to lead in the development of AI technologies to deliver impactful and innovative digital technologies for predictive/prescriptive analytics and decision support. He/she will be expected to define growth opportunities and new ways to engage industry to advance AI for manufacturing, and look after a team of scientists and engineers to translate problems faced by industry into opportunities to develop and deploy deep tech in AI. The key roles & responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

  • Develop AI models to enhance and automate decision making and enable predictive/prescriptive analytics
  • Define opportunities to push frontiers of AI research in manufacturing
  • Formulate research direction and proposals for competitive funding to advance AI in manufacturing
  • Engagement of companies to understand their challenges and translate to research collaborations in AI
  • Work with a team of scientist and engineers to execute deliverables for industry projects
  • Contribute to research and development in Cyber-Physical Production System technologies
  • Develop research proposals to secure competitive funding
  • Lead technology development, live production environment testbedding and technology transfer of robust algorithms to industry
  • Understand autonomous manufacturing domain and provide innovative solutions to industry problems in this area
  • Familiarity with Industry 4.0 standards and concepts is an advantage

Job Requirement:

  • PhD in Computer Science, Data Science or Mechanical/Industrial/Electrical Engineering
    7 years' experience in developing and deploying machine learning and data analytics (for Senior Scientist)
  • Strong leadership skills
  • Programming/coding skills in developing AI and data analytics
  • Skills in data modelling, machine learning, signal processing
  • Good track record of publications
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Quality focused and customer-centric
  • Can-do attitude and able to work with different needs of various stakeholders
  • Proactive team player and technically motivated to solve problems innovatively

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