Job Description:

The CPPS group is seeking a highly motivated scientist or senior scientist to lead in the development of AI technologies to deliver impactful and innovative digital technologies for predictive/prescriptive analytics and decision support. He/she will be expected to define growth opportunities and new ways to engage industry to advance AI for manufacturing, and look after a team of scientists and engineers to translate problems faced by industry into opportunities to develop and deploy deep tech in AI. The key roles & responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Develop AI models to enhance and automate decision making and enable predictive/prescriptive analytics
• Define opportunities to push frontiers of AI research in manufacturing
• Formulate research direction and proposals for competitive funding to advance AI in manufacturing
• Engagement of companies to understand their challenges and translate to research collaborations in AI
• Work with a team of scientist and engineers to execute deliverables for industry projects
• Contribute to research and development in Cyber-Physical Production System technologies
• Develop research proposals to secure competitive funding
• Lead technology development, live production environment testbedding and technology transfer of robust algorithms to industry
• Understand autonomous manufacturing domain and provide innovative solutions to industry problems in this area
• Familiarity with Industry 4.0 standards and concepts is an advantage

Job Requirement:

• PhD in Computer Science, Data Science or Mechanical/Industrial/Electrical Engineering
• 7 years’ experience in developing and deploying machine learning and data analytics (for Senior Scientist)
• Strong leadership skills
• Programming/coding skills in developing AI and data analytics
• Skills in data modelling, machine learning, signal processing
• Good track record of publications
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Quality focused and customer-centric
• Can-do attitude and able to work with different needs of various stakeholders
• Proactive team player and technically motivated to solve problems innovatively