AI Engineer & Mentor for National AI Apprenticeship

Nanyang Technological University Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

NTU hosts AI Apprenticeship Programme (AIAP) with responsibilities spanning end-to-end AI project delivery, mentoring apprentices, and leading internal/external AI initiatives. The role demands strong ML fundamentals, MLOps, and excellent communication to drive impactful AI solutions.

As part of AI Singapore’s national AI programme ecosystem, you will collaborate across industry partners and academia to advance cutting-edge AI technologies and talent development at NTU.

Qualifications

• Strong portfolio of AI/ML projects from scoping to deployment.
• Deep practical knowledge of ML fundamentals; NLP/vision/tabular data.
• Hands-on experience with LLM-powered apps, prompting, RAG, and fine-tuning.
• Expert Python skills; clean, modular, maintainable code.
• Experience with MLOps and building data/model pipelines on cloud platforms.
• Mentor mindset to guide AI talent and contribute to a collaborative team culture.
• Excellent communication to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Curiosity and ongoing learning in AI and related fields.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

End-to-End Delivery

Applied ML

Generative AI/LLMs

Software Engineering

MLOps & Cloud

Mentor

Communication

Lifelong Learner

Tools

Git

Docker

CI/CD

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

NTU hosts AI Apprenticeship Programme (AIAP) with responsibilities spanning end-to-end AI project delivery, mentoring apprentices, and leading internal/external AI initiatives. The role demands strong ML fundamentals, MLOps, and excellent communication to drive impactful AI solutions.

As part of AI Singapore’s national AI programme ecosystem, you will collaborate across industry partners and academia to advance cutting-edge AI technologies and talent development at NTU.