Research Assistant/ Engineer (1-year contract), SCIS

Operation

Contract

Employment Type

Manager

Experience Level

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent | Diploma

Education Level

Singapore | Closing On 18 Jul 2026

Country

Hybrid

Working Arrangement

About Us

Singapore Management University is a place where high-level professionalism blends together with a healthy informality. The 'family-like' atmosphere among the SMU community fosters a culture where employees work, plan, organise and play together - building a strong collegiality and morale within the university.

Our commitment to attract and retain talent is ongoing. We offer attractive benefits and welfare, competitive compensation packages, and generous professional development opportunities - all to meet the work-life needs of our staff. No wonder, then, that SMU continues to be given numerous awards and recognition for its human resource excellence.

Job Description

The candidate will be responsible for conducting design and development of sensor networks and Internet-of-Things (IOT) systems for in-home sensing and machine learning models for analyzing digital biomarkers and human activity data for the purpose of cognitive health monitoring and wellbeing analysis. Successful candidate will join an active research team led by Prof TAN Ah Hwee from School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore ManagementUniversity.

Candidate's core responsibilities are:

• Project administration, user management
• Design, deployment and maintenance of sensor networks and Internet of Things (IOT) system for in-home sensing of human behaviour and activities
• Integration of in-home sensors, home gateway, and backend cloud servers for data collection
• Development of software for digital biomarker feature extraction and data analytics
• Building of machine learning and predictive models based on digital biomarkers and spatial temporal data
• Documentation and preparation of technical reports
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Diploma or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems or closely related disciplines from an nstitution of higher learning
• Minimum 1-2 years of relevant research experience with sensors, Internet-of Things, data analytics, artificial intelligence, or related fields
• Good analytical, technical and problem solving skills
• Knowledge/Proficiency in hardware sensors, cloud computing, networking and programming languages, such as Python, Java and C/C++• Competency in application prototype design and development
• Good writing, communication and interpersonal skills

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Posted On 18 Jun 2026