Research Engineer (6-month contract), SCIS

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

• This position is for School of Computing and Information Systems (SCIS).

• Data acquisition setup and installation of hardware.

• Acquisition of robot data for social navigation.

• Annotation of training data.

• Starting and monitoring of model training.

• Integration of VLA models into robotics simulators.

• Finetuning of models.

• Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems orclosely related disciplines; with particular focus on Robotics, Simulation, Social Pedestrian Modeling.

• Minimum 2 years of relevant research experience in robotics, social force modeling, simulation, robot navigation.

• Proficiency in programming software/languages such as Python and C++ is required.

• Proven track record and professional experience in robotics, simulation.

• Demonstrated experience and know-how on machine learning for robotics, VLA training.

• Excellent working knowledge of Ubuntu and Linux command line.

• Ability to break down complex problems and design effective solutions.

• Innovating new approaches and thinking outside the box.

• Applicants with research publications in the robotics area will be advantageous.

• Ability to work cooperatively as part of a small, agile academic research team is essential.

• Self-motivated individual who can work independently and collaboratively with team members.

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Please note that your application will be sent to and reviewed by the direct employer - Singapore Management University