Applied AI Scientist: Enterprise AI & Agentic Systems

Univers; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Univers in Singapore hosts the Global Impact AI Lab and seeks an Applied AI Scientist to design and develop AI systems that operate at the intersection of foundation models and enterprise data. You will address real customer use cases across industrial and commercial verticals.

This role sits at the interface of applied AI research, rapid prototyping, and customer engagement, working with the GTM team to translate opportunities into technical strategies and drive solutions from concept to

Qualifications

• Master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong background in deep learning, computer vision, NLP, and/or multimodal modeling.
• Experience training, fine-tuning, or adapting foundation models.
• Experience building and deploying agentic AI systems.
• Proficiency in Python and PyTorch for model development and experimentation.
• Experience deploying AI systems into production environments (cloud or edge) is highly valued.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of AI solutions for real-world customer use cases, partnering with the GTM team to identify and shape high-value AI opportunities.
• Operate in a 0→1 capacity — building demos, prototypes, and proof-of-concepts that validate technical feasibility and business impact.
• Leverage and customize state-of-the-art vision, language, and multimodal foundation models to address domain-specific challenges.
• Design, develop, and deploy agentic systems that orchestrate reasoning, decision-making, and workflow automation across enterprise environments.
• Build intelligent workflows that convert structured and unstructured signals into insights and actions.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to integrate validated capabilities into scalable platform components.
• Engage directly with senior and C-level stakeholders, presenting AI strategies and technical roadmaps with clarity and confidence.

Skills

Deep learning

Computer vision

NLP

Multimodal modeling

Foundation models

Education

Master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Python

PyTorch

Job description

Univers in Singapore hosts the Global Impact AI Lab and seeks an Applied AI Scientist to design and develop AI systems that operate at the intersection of foundation models and enterprise data. You will address real customer use cases across industrial and commercial verticals.

This role sits at the interface of applied AI research, rapid prototyping, and customer engagement, working with the GTM team to translate opportunities into technical strategies and drive solutions from concept to