"Research Engineer (Medical Mobile Manipulator)"

Job Description

This research project involves the development of a versatile and high-performance robotic nursing platform for smart hospital systems. The research fellow is expected to contribute to the following aspects:

• Designing a multifunctional and capable robotic nursing platform with an emphasis on patient caregiving and clinical logistics. The goal is to reduce the workload of human nurses, enabling them to focus on more complex and critical tasks.
• Developing a robust and versatile control system for the proposed platform, leveraging foundation models or reinforcement learning to support functions such as interactive navigation and intelligent human–robot interaction.
• Deploying and evaluating the developed robotic nursing platform in a real hospital environment to assess its effectiveness and practical impact.

Qualifications

• Min Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline, such as robotics, mechanical engineering, electrical/electronic engineering, computer science, or related fields.
• Solid experience in robotic control, particularly in reinforcement learning, imitation learning and foundation models. Publications in the robotics domain is a plus.
• Proficiency in advanced perception models.
• Hands-on experience in real-world robotics deployment and addressing the sim-to-real gap.
• Solid knowledge of numerical methods, including optimization, linear algebra, and geometry processing.
• Software programming in C/C++ and Python.
• Excellent analytical and computational skills.
• Understanding of software engineering principles, preferred worked experience on open-source software.
• The candidate must have the ability to work independently as well as part of a team with strong initiatives and have the curiosity to explore the unknown.
• Open to Fixed Term Contract.

More Information

Location: Kent Ridge Campus

Organization: College of Design and Engineering

Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Employee Referral Eligible: No

Job requisition ID: 30029

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