AI Research Platform Engineer

National University of Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

The National University of Singapore invites applications for the position of Research Assistant (Platform Engineer) for Horizons Office, School of Computing (SoC). This role is dedicated to building an AI-powered research platform, ensuring backend, data, and AI systems run reliably at scale.

You will own the platform, collaborating with the PI and lab members to deploy services, optimize databases, and improve monitoring and tooling for robust, reproducible experiments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in CS, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• At least 3 years of relevant work experience in platform, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles.
• Strong experience with Linux, Docker, infrastructure as code, and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Experience operating production services, databases, distributed jobs, and observability systems.
• Ability to diagnose performance and reliability issues across the stack.
• Interest in AI/ML research or large-scale experimental systems.
• Pragmatic and comfortable working across boundaries in a small, early-stage team.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and operate backend services, databases, workers, and AI infrastructure.
• Build and improve reliable infrastructure for data processing and distributed workloads.
• Optimize PostgreSQL performance, backups, and reliability.
• Improve monitoring, logging, deployment, and production reliability.
• Contribute to backend services and internal tooling.
• Support research projects by turning experiments into robust pipelines.
• Assist with data collection and processing workflows.

Skills

Linux

SRE

Distributed systems

Observability

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

PostgreSQL

Vector databases

Python

Redis

Job description

The National University of Singapore invites applications for the position of Research Assistant (Platform Engineer) for Horizons Office, School of Computing (SoC). This role is dedicated to building an AI-powered research platform, ensuring backend, data, and AI systems run reliably at scale.

You will own the platform, collaborating with the PI and lab members to deploy services, optimize databases, and improve monitoring and tooling for robust, reproducible experiments.