"Research Engineer (6-month contract), SCIS"

Research Engineer (6-month contract), SCIS

• Employment Type: Contract
• Experience Level: Manager
• Education Level: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
• Singapore | Closing On 15 Mar 2026
• Working Arrangement: Hybrid

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 research on proactive conversational agents with LLMs. Successful candidate will be part of an active research team led by Prof Lizi Liao from School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University.

• Algorithm design, implementation & testing.
• benchmark comparison.
• Setup and develop response generation or ranking models writing scientific report or summaries.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor's degree or senior undergraduate student in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or closely related disciplines from a reputable institution of higher learning.
• Minimum 1 year of relevant research experience in NLP or CV.
• Better if have research papers published in top tier conferences such ACL.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as pytorch or tensorflow is required.
• Demonstrated experience and know-how on doing research.
• Experience with systems, such as linux, docker is preferred.
• Excellent working knowledge of dialogue systems, pretrained language models, LLMs.
• Good analytical, technical and problem solving skills.
• Applicants with research publications in NLP or CV area will be advantageous.
• Self-motivated individual who can work independently and also collaboratively with team members.

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Posted On 13 Feb 2026