AI Engineer - AI Apprenticeship Programme

About the role

The AI Apprenticeship Programme (AIAP) is a flagship initiative of the AI Singapore (AISG) national AI programme, hosted at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and aimed at grooming local AI talent. NTU is looking for a driven AI Engineer to run its programmes, lead AI-based projects and drive the development of cutting-edge AI technologies.

Key responsibilities

• Drive tasks stemming from AIAP, AIAP (Industry), LADP and AIIP.
• Train and mentor AI apprentices during the Deep-skilling and Project phases.
• Lead solution development for internal and external AI projects, perform research and maintain AIAP technologies.
• Plan and execute AIAP recruitment stages and update the AIAP syllabus.
• Support industry and community-building activities through talks, workshops and seminars.

Required profile

• Applicants from all disciplines and qualifications, including NITEC, Diploma and Degree holders.
• A strong portfolio of AI/ML projects showing delivery from scoping and data analysis through to deployment and documentation.
• Deep, practical knowledge of machine learning fundamentals, applied to NLP, computer vision or tabular data.
• Experience developing LLM-powered applications, including Prompt Engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and fine-tuning.
• Expert-level Python skills and a commitment to software engineering best practices.
• Fluency in Git, Docker and CI/CD, and experience building data and model pipelines on at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Eager to mentor the next generation of AI talent, able to explain complex technical ideas clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, and curious about staying current in AI.