Research Engineer / Fellow (Systems) – Immersive Content Moderation

About the role

The Singapore Institute of Technology seeks a Research Engineer/Fellow to design, develop, and deploy an advanced content moderation framework for immersive 3D virtual environments such as Roblox and Minecraft. The role involves building a parallelized, agent‑driven exploration system and integrating a multimodal detection pipeline to ensure real‑time performance and scalability.

Key responsibilities

• Manage the research project with the PI, Co‑PI and team to meet all deliverables.
• Design and develop a robust, scalable software system for autonomous agents navigating immersive 3D worlds.
• Implement a parallelized framework where multiple LLM‑powered agents explore user‑generated environments concurrently.
• Develop a unified multimodal detection pipeline that fuses video, audio, and text using fine‑tuned Vision‑Language Models.
• Benchmark inference speed, compute efficiency and scalability, and ensure deployment readiness.
• Enable real‑time adaptive learning via human‑in‑the‑loop feedback and reinforcement learning.
• Maintain high software engineering standards through testing, version control, documentation and CI/CD infrastructure.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, AI, Software Engineering or a related field.
• Hands‑on experience designing and implementing multi‑agent software systems.
• Familiarity with immersive platform development (e.g., Roblox, Minecraft) and scripting languages such as Lua or Java.
• Experience with distributed systems, reinforcement learning or simulation environments (e.g., Unity3D, OpenAI Gym, WebGL) is advantageous.
• Experience deploying cloud‑based applications (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes).

Required skills

• Python programming.
• Lua or Java scripting for immersive platforms.
• Vision‑Language Models (e.g., CLIP, BLIP) and scene‑graph inference.
• Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure).
• REST API development.
• Multi‑agent framework design and parallelisation.
• Distributed systems and reinforcement learning concepts.