Job Description

Job Title:  Research Engineer (Detecting airborne pollutants using LCS)
University-Level Unit:  NUS Environmental Research Institute
Faculty/Department-Level Unit:  Research
Employee Category:  Research Staff
Location_ONB:  Kent Ridge Campus
Posting Start Date:  27/03/2026

Job Description

The job holder is to work with PI and the research team on the following:

- Assembling, operating, trouble shooting, calibrating and maintaining low-cost sensors detecting airborne pollutants.

- Analyzing low-cost sensor data against reference instrument with meaningful results

- Joining and supporting field studies

- Devising, configuring and optimizing wireless communication among various gadgets with spatial and temporal data

Qualifications

·    Basic knowledge of embedded systems and microcontrollers (e.g. Arduino, ESP32, Raspberry Pi)

·    Familiarity with firmware/software development in C/C++ or Python

·    Basic understanding of electronic circuits and sensor interfacing (I2C, UART, SPI)

·    Comfortable with hands-on hardware assembly and troubleshooting