Senior Scientist (Digital Manufacturing Division (DMD)/Cyber-Physical Production System (CPPS)), SIMTech

Senior Scientist (Digital Manufacturing Division (DMD)/Cyber-Physical Production System (CPPS)), SIMTech

Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)

Singapore

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.

The above eligibility criteria are not exhaustive. A*STAR may include additional selection criteria based on its prevailing recruitment policies. These policies may be amended from time to time without notice. We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

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