School of Infocomm - Project Engineer

[What the role is]

Republic Polytechnic (RP) is looking for a project engineer to play a key role in delivering full stack AI/ML solutions to its industry partners. Engaging industry partners to deliver innovative and practical solutions is crucial to RP’s mission as an educational institution and ensures its curriculum is updated and relevant.

[What you will be working on]

As a project engineer, you will work with academic staff and RP industry partners to design, develop, and deploy AI/ML projects. You are expected to complete a complete project life cycle that starts with gathering business requirements to deployment of a prototype client application that uses AI/ML to deliver its functionality. You will:

• Participate in the full development life cycle of AI/ML projects, with a specialization in video and image recognition

• Identify and select AI/ML technologies to solve problems. Develop and test AI/ML models using these technologies

• Perform data exploration and data analysis to understand data, and design model architecture

• Optimize data systems and pipeline architecture. Design, build and deploy applications to extract data from a variety of sources and to perform feature engineering

• Deploy and integrate AI ​​models into back-end servers and cloud services. Develop front-end interfaces to access AI models (mobile app and mobile web).

• Cooperate with other departments to effectively use internal/external big data

• Produce documentation to design, develop, test, deploy, sustain, and update AI applications to ensure good governance and accountability

[What we are looking for]

• 3-5 years relevant experience in Artificial Intelligence/Data Science OR Computer Science/Engineering with a specialist qualification in AI/ML

• Experienced in delivering AI projects for video and image recognition

• Familiar with Tensorflow, Tensorflowjs, Keras, Scikit-learn,  PyTorch and other popular AI frameworks

• Good in programming and problem solving, familiar with Python, Javascript and Flutter and/or React Native

• Experience in developing mobile web and mobile applications

• Experience in using OpenCV, Media Pipe Pose and other Pose Estimation technologies

• Enjoy sharing and presenting ideas

• Able to work independently

To succeed in this role, you need to be knowledgeable, independent, and flexible. As an educational institution, RP is vendor agnostic and delivers best-of-breed solutions to its industry partners across a spectrum of technologies. You are expected to be knowledgeable in order to make (and execute) technical recommendations that are affordable and fit-for-purpose.

You will enjoy working in an independent but accountable manner. There is ample opportunity to explore creative solutions within the framework of project boundaries. RP has a dynamic staff culture, being flexible and receptive to different opinions will contribute to your success as well. You will interact with project staff spanning IT, Health & Fitness and Logistics industries.