AI Engineer (NLP) - AI Singapore

Job Description

AI Singapore (AISG) is a national AI programme launched by the National Research Foundation (NRF) to anchor deep national capabilities in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The programme office is hosted by the National University of Singapore (NUS) and brings together all Singapore-based research institutions and the vibrant ecosystem of AI start-ups and companies developing AI products to perform use-inspired research, grow the knowledge, create the tools, and develop the talent to power Singapore's AI efforts.

The Makerspace Pillar of AI Singapore is looking for an AI Engineer to perform development and engineering work for NLP (Natural Language Processing) products under AI Singapore.

Duties & Responsibilities 

●    Perform literature review of academic machine learning papers with a focus on applying them on Filipino language datasets
●    Develop NLP products for NLP Hub
●    Develop machine learning models and/or refactor codes for integration into our NLP Bricks
●    Be involved in the deployment process
●    Reproduce, test and enhance algorithms from research papers
●    Collaborate with external parties
●    Oversee and manage the annotation process for NLP tasks in Filipino language on crowdsourcing platforms
●    Keep abreast of latest developments in NLP 
 

Qualifications

●    BSc/MSc in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering or equivalent practical experience
●    Familiar with NLP tasks and modern NLP models
●    Fluent in Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face, AllenNLP and related NLP libraries
●    Experience in building and improving NLP deep learning models
●    Experience working with container services such as Dockers and Kubernetes
●    Experience working with Git, RESTful API
●    Experience working with frontend such as React and TypeScript is a plus
●    Experience in cloud services
●    Ability to write and communicate in English and Filipino language
 

Covid-19 Message

At NUS, the health and safety of our staff and students are one of our utmost priorities, and COVID-vaccination supports our commitment to ensure the safety of our community and to make NUS as safe and welcoming as possible. Many of our roles require a significant amount of physical interactions with students/staff/public members. Even for job roles that may be performed remotely, there will be instances where on-campus presence is required.

Taking into consideration the health and well-being of our staff and students and to better protect everyone in the campus, applicants are strongly encouraged to have themselves fully COVID-19 vaccinated to secure successful employment with NUS.

More Information

Location: Kent Ridge Campus

Organization: Office of the Deputy President(Res&Tech)

Department : AI Singapore

Employee Referral Eligible:

Job requisition ID : 16479