Research Engineer (1-year 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).
• Algorithm design, implementation & testing.
• Benchmark comparison.
• Setup and develop response generation or ranking models
• Writing scientific report or summaries.
• Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum Bachelor's degree or senior undergraduate student in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or closely related disciplines.
• Minimum 1 year of relevant research experience in NLP or CV.
• Better if have research papers published in top tier conferences such ACL.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as pytorch or tensorflow is required.
• Demonstrated experience and know-how on doing research.
• Experience with systems, such as linux, docker is preferred.
• Excellent working knowledge of dialogue systems, pretrained language models, LLMs.
• Good analytical, technical and problem solving skills.
• Applicants with research publications in NLP or CV area will be advantageous.
• Self-motivated individual who can work independently and also collaboratively with team members.

OTHER INFORMATION

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