Research Associate (Computer Engineering/Computer Science/Electronics Engineering) Full-time

Research Scientist Position At Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Young and research-intensive, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) is ranked among the world's top universities. NTU's College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS) is a leading college that is known for its excellent curriculum, outstanding and impactful research, and world-renowned faculty. A hot bed of cutting-edge technology and groundbreaking research, the College aims to groom the next generation of leaders, thinkers, and innovators to thrive in the digital age. Located in the heart of Asia, NTU's College of Computing and Data Science is an 'exciting place to learn and grow. We welcome you to join our community of faculty, students and alumni who are shaping the future of AI, Data Science and Computing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Designing and running research projects on reliable foundation models (LLMs/VLMs), including robustness, uncertainty estimation/calibration, hallucination mitigation/detection, and safe deployment.
• Formulating/devising novel training, post-training, and inference-time methods that improve reliability under distribution shift and noisy feedback.
• Improving model evaluation and benchmarking: building reproducible pipelines, curating datasets, implementing metrics, and performing rigorous ablations and error analyses (including failure-mode taxonomies).
• Implementing and maintaining high-quality research codebases (PyTorch/HF), experiment tracking, and compute workflows (multi-GPU, HPC/cluster), ensuring reproducibility and documentation.
• Accountable for delivering research milestones: weekly progress updates, clear experiment logs, and tangible outputs (preprints/submissions, open-source artifacts, technical reports, datasets).
• Collaborating closely with the PI, students, and external partners; contributing to project planning, cross-team communication, and co-authoring papers.
• Supporting mentoring and lab operations as needed: guiding junior students on implementation/experimentation, maintaining best practices for coding, safety evaluation, and data handling.

Expectations: high research ownership, strong experimental rigor, proactive problem-solving, clear technical writing, and consistent throughput from idea → prototype → validated results → publication-quality artifacts

Job Requirements:

• Preferably Master in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics Engineering or equivalent.
• Independent, highly analytical, proactive and a team player.
• Excellent teamwork and verbal, written communication skills.
• In-depth knowledge relevant to the project domain.
• Demonstrated capability to conduct innovative research.
• The ability and willingness to adapt and incorporate novel ideas and approaches in scientific industry.
• Demonstrated ability to formulate hypothesis and design effective experimental plans.
• Ability to design and implement new experimental methods.
• High-level expertise in the required experiment or modelling methods.
• Ability to initiate collaboration research in multidisciplinary team.
• Oversee and report project progress.
• Ability and willingness to work some flexible hours.

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified. Hiring Institution: NTU