AI Research Backend & Platform Engineer

National University of Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 54,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

National University of Singapore invites applications for a Research Assistant (Backend & Platform Engineer) in the Horizons Office, School of Computing at the Department of Computer Science. The role focuses on building and operating backend and infrastructure to support scalable AI research platforms.

You will collaborate with the Principal Investigator and lab members on multiple projects, developing services, data pipelines, and infrastructure to enable researchers to ingest data, run

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a relevant discipline.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and operate backend services, databases, workers, and AI infrastructure.
• Help build and improve data ingestion, processing, and matching workflows.
• Optimize PostgreSQL schemas, queries, migrations, backups, and performance.
• Make agent and ingestion jobs durable, recoverable, and safe across multiple workers.
• Contribute to Python backend services and internal tools where needed.
• Improve monitoring, logging, reliability, and production performance.
• Work closely with the Principal Investigator and lab members to support research projects, turning experimental workflows into robust, reproducible backend systems.
• Support research activities such as running experiments, data collection and processing, and documenting systems and results.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Team collaboration

Research-oriented

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Python

PostgreSQL

Linux

Docker

Infrastructure as Code

AWS

Job description

National University of Singapore invites applications for a Research Assistant (Backend & Platform Engineer) in the Horizons Office, School of Computing at the Department of Computer Science. The role focuses on building and operating backend and infrastructure to support scalable AI research platforms.

You will collaborate with the Principal Investigator and lab members on multiple projects, developing services, data pipelines, and infrastructure to enable researchers to ingest data, run