Lecturer / Senior Lecturer (Robotics & Embodied AI)

About the role

Nanyang Polytechnic's School of IT is recruiting a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Robotics and Embodied AI. As academic staff, you will actively contribute to the academic, professional and personal development of learners so they are ready for work and life. The position is listed as hybrid.

Key responsibilities

• Design, evaluate and enhance course curricula, and co-develop training content with industry partners to match evolving industry needs.
• Teach and supervise projects for PET and CET courses, including professional short courses.
• Identify new opportunities, initiatives and collaborations with industry, and spearhead them.
• Plan, lead, manage and undertake Embodied AI projects with industry partners.

Required profile

• At least 2 years of relevant working experience in Robotics and Embodied/Physical AI.
• Relevant qualification in Robotics, Mechanical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to empathise and connect with diverse learners.
• Candidates with practical experience designing and implementing embodied AI solutions in an industry setting are advantageous.

Required skills

• Robotics training data pipeline: data acquisition, synchronization, calibration, evaluation harnesses and simulation data pipelines.
• Perception and sensor fusion: 3D scene understanding and manipulation-centric perception.
• Simulation: digital twins, synthetic data generation, sim-to-real transfer, familiarity with Isaac Sim.
• Policy learning and foundation models: imitation and reinforcement learning, cross-embodiment generalisation, vision-language and world-action models.
• System integration and deployment: ROS2 integration, runtime robustness, safety and field deployment.