Industrial AI Scientist: RAG, GenAI & Plant Ops

YOKOGAWA ENGINEERING ASIA PTE LTD; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Yokogawa Engineering Asia Pte Ltd seeks an experienced AI/ML professional to design and implement innovative AI solutions for chemical and process industries. You will work on LLMs, Generative AI, and Agentic AI, leveraging plant data, engineering knowledge, and operational documents to enhance decision making.

Responsibilities include building RAG systems, semantic search, and intelligent agents that interact with enterprise systems and digital twins, as well as ensuring scalable and secure

Qualifications

• Masters/Degree in Engineering/Sciences.
• 3–6 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with knowledge graphs, semantic search, industrial digital twins, or engineering knowledge management systems.
• Experience applying AI to plant operations, sustainability, energy optimization, asset performance management, or process safety use cases.
• Familiarity with Responsible AI, AI governance, cybersecurity, and human-in-the-loop decision-support systems.
• Experience in real-world data science projects, internships, hackathons, and personal projects.
• Expertise in Python programming with data processing/visualization libraries.
• Proficient in API concepts and libraries for testing and deployment (Flask/Django/FastAPI).
• Familiar with databases (PostgreSQL, Minio) and SQL for data storage and retrieval.

Responsibilities

• Research and develop LLM, Generative AI, and Agentic AI solutions for chemical and process industries.
• Design and build AI-powered apps leveraging plant data, engineering knowledge, maintenance records, and docs.
• Develop and deploy RAG systems, knowledge graphs, and semantic search for contextualized insights.
• Build and orchestrate intelligent agents to interact with enterprise systems and industrial tools.
• Ensure scalable, reliable, and secure AI solutions with production deployment, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Apply ML, DL, multimodal AI to predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, and process optimization.
• Build data pipelines for acquiring/cleaning/enriching industrial data.
• Collaborate with researchers, engineers, and stakeholders to deliver AI from concept to production.
• Automate processes using AI, APIs, scripting, and open-source tech.

Skills

Python programming

Pandas/Numpy/Scikit-learn

API concepts (Flask/Django/FastAPI)

SQL (PostgreSQL)

Knowledge graphs/Semantic search

Industrial digital twins

Education

Masters/Degree in Engineering/Sciences

Tools

Flask

Django

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

Minio

Job description

Yokogawa Engineering Asia Pte Ltd seeks an experienced AI/ML professional to design and implement innovative AI solutions for chemical and process industries. You will work on LLMs, Generative AI, and Agentic AI, leveraging plant data, engineering knowledge, and operational documents to enhance decision making.

Responsibilities include building RAG systems, semantic search, and intelligent agents that interact with enterprise systems and digital twins, as well as ensuring scalable and secure