"Professional Officer"

Job Purpose

The Professional Officers Division (POD) houses two Innovation Centres – Rapid Product Innovation and Development (RaPID) Centre and SIT-Poly Innovation Centre of Excellence (SPICE) Centre. The RaPID Centre aims to guide businesses in their innovation and value creation activities through rapid product development and sample production while the SPICE Centre aims to support local Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in their technology-driven transformation, innovation and talent development initiatives.

These Innovation Centres house a dedicated pool of Professional Officers who come with specialised and deep technical skills acquired through extensive industry experience. Professional Officers work with industry partners to co-create commercially viable solutions. They deliver on projects that help industries and businesses to move up the innovation value chain. While working on these projects, Professional Officers will have the opportunity to be equipped with applied research skill sets that are relevant to industry demands. The success of these initiatives will bring about deeper collaboration with key industry stakeholders that will translate the industry engagement into more innovation projects with SIT.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead or co-lead innovation projects with industry.
• Involve in customer engagements including gathering of systems requirements and writing project scope.
• Involve in the full development life cycle, i.e., design, development, and testing
• Generate technical proposals, design documents, test documents.
• Manage laboratories and equipment to support academic programmes and applied research.
• Carry out Risk Assessment, and ensure compliance with Work, Safety and Health Regulations.

Job Requirements

• A degree in Computer Science or related Engineering discipline. Possessing a master’s degree, PhD degree and relevant certifications will be an added advantage.
• Experienced in developing machine learning and generative AI solutions for deployment into production.
• Strong proficiency in Python and AI frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras)
• Strong programming skills in Python/Java/Javascript.
• Knowledge in LLM, RAG, LangChain would be advantageous.
• Knowledge of cloud computing and AI deployment (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure) would be advantageous.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and creative thinking skills.
• Work independently, as well as within a team, to ensure that the project can meet the milestones adhering to the stipulated timeline.
• At least 2 years working experience in AI/ML software development.