Lead Research Fellow: Cryptography & Secure Systems

NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

NTU's FSR@NTU invites a Senior Research Fellow to provide technical and operational leadership for Thrust 3 of the QUASAR-CREATE programme in Singapore. The role requires coordinating research directions, setting priorities, and overseeing integration across international teams.

You will guide researchers and engineers, make architecture and deployment decisions, and contribute to partner engagement and technology transfer.

Qualifications

• PhD in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, CS, C.E., Cybersecurity, or related discipline.
• Strong record of applied research, engineering leadership, or technology development in cryptography or secure systems.
• Substantial experience leading multidisciplinary technical projects across different teams or organizations.
• Demonstrated experience in public-key cryptography, post-quantum cryptography, cryptographic protocols, and secure-system architecture.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the research and technical direction, priorities, and execution approach of Thrust 3.
• Recommend research, engineering, prototyping, and industry-trial priorities.
• Coordinate contributions from multidisciplinary and internationally distributed teams.
• Make or recommend technical architecture, implementation, testing, and integration decisions.
• Evaluate trade-offs involving security, performance, interoperability, cost, operational feasibility, and deployment risk.
• Review the technical quality and readiness of research outputs, prototypes, and trial systems.
• Identify delivery risks and recommend adjustments to scope, sequencing, resources, or partner responsibilities.
• Guide researchers and engineers without necessarily holding formal line-management responsibility.
• Contribute to partner selection, industry engagement, project development, and technology-transfer decisions.
• Be accountable for timely, coherent, and outcome-oriented delivery of assigned Thrust 3 milestones and outputs.

Skills

Applied research leadership

Cryptography / cybersecurity

Multidisciplinary coordination

Public-key cryptography knowledge

Education

PhD in Electrical or Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a closely related discipline

Job description

NTU's FSR@NTU invites a Senior Research Fellow to provide technical and operational leadership for Thrust 3 of the QUASAR-CREATE programme in Singapore. The role requires coordinating research directions, setting priorities, and overseeing integration across international teams.

You will guide researchers and engineers, make architecture and deployment decisions, and contribute to partner engagement and technology transfer.