Drone Swarm AI Research Fellow (Multi-Agent RL)

Nanyang Technological University; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) invites applications for a Research Fellow in Multi-Agent RL for Autonomous Drone Swarm. The role focuses on learning-based coordination of drone teams, decentralized task assignment, and robust perception-driven decision making in urban and cluttered environments.

You will work with PhD students and engineers, publish in top venues, and contribute to project demonstrations and reports within tight timelines.

Qualifications

• PhD in Robotics, Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, CS, AI or closely related discipline.
• Strong research background in multi-agent RL, multi-robot systems, autonomous systems, or learning-based navigation.
• A strong publication record in relevant journals or conferences would be an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Develop learning-based frameworks for cooperative multi-agent robotic systems in complex environments.
• Formulate multi-agent decision-making problems including state/action representation, reward design, task allocation, and decentralized policy learning.
• Develop RL and MARL algorithms for autonomous coordination and target-following under uncertainty, partial observability, and dynamic conditions.
• Develop perception-aware decision-making methods for autonomous agents in changing targets/environments.
• Integrate perception, decision-making, and control in a simulation-based validation framework.
• Design and conduct simulation experiments to evaluate performance, robustness, and scalability.
• Collaborate with PhD students, researchers, and engineers to support system integration, testing, and demonstration.
• Prepare technical reports, publications, presentations, and project deliverables.

Skills

Multi-agent RL

Robotics

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Reinforcement Learning

Graph Neural Networks

Computer Vision

Education

PhD in Robotics/AE/ME/EEE/CS/AI

Tools

Unity

ROS/ROS2

Gazebo

AirSim

Job description

Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) invites applications for a Research Fellow in Multi-Agent RL for Autonomous Drone Swarm. The role focuses on learning-based coordination of drone teams, decentralized task assignment, and robust perception-driven decision making in urban and cluttered environments.

You will work with PhD students and engineers, publish in top venues, and contribute to project demonstrations and reports within tight timelines.