Research Engineer II (AI, Data Science, Software Engineering)

About the role

The Alibaba-NTU Global e-Sustainability CorpLab (ANGEL), supported by the Singapore RIE2025 Fund, develops green digital technologies for global sustainability. As part of its Sustainable Living project, NTU is looking for a highly motivated and technically capable Research Engineer to support research work.

Key responsibilities

• Work closely with the Principal Investigator and the research team to design, develop and evaluate AI-driven solutions for sustainable living and green recommendation systems.
• Collect, organize, clean and preprocess multimodal datasets (textual, behavioral, contextual and sustainability-related) for AI modeling and analysis.
• Develop efficient data processing and experimentation workflows supporting user modeling, preference understanding, behavior analysis and personalized sustainability recommendations.
• Run experiments, evaluate model performance, analyse results and iteratively improve AI models and systems.
• Contribute to research publications, technical reports, project deliverables and demonstrations with colleagues from other disciplines.

Required profile

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science or a related field; PhD candidates are also welcome.
• Strong programming and software development skills, with the ability to implement and evaluate AI-based systems.
• Knowledge or practical experience in NLP, Large Language Models, Multimodal AI, Recommendation Systems, Agentic AI or similar.
• Experience with multimodal or domain-specific datasets is an advantage.
• Experience with academic research, publications or research projects is an advantage.

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.