Realtime ATM Coordination Engineer (API & Simulation)

Nanyang Technological University; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Air Traffic Management Research Institute (ATMRI) at NTU Singapore is seeking a Research Engineer II to design a coordination server and expose RESTful and WebSocket APIs for ATM simulation environments. You will craft stateful coordination flows and collaborate with a Simulation Engineer to ingest data from discrete event simulations, enabling human-in-the-loop experiments and PoCs up to TRL4.

The role requires a Bachelor in Computer Science or related field with 7+ years of backend experience,

Qualifications

• Bachelor in CS or related field with 7+ years of experience.
• Proficient in Python frameworks (FastAPI, Flask).
• Extensive WebSocket and real-time API development experience.
• Experience with Pub/Sub architectures and IPC.
• Familiarity with simulation or spatial systems a plus.
• Lab/prototype environment with minimal external deps.
• Knowledge of Redis, MQTT or Flask-SocketIO is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the Coordination Server for synchronizing flight data, handovers, and sector updates.
• Develop and expose RESTful and WebSocket APIs for GUI and pseudo-role clients.
• Create stateful coordination flows: conflict logs, handover events, and timeouts.
• Collaborate with Simulation Engineer to ingest data from discrete event simulation software.
• Implement lightweight in-memory coordination middleware (e.g. Redis, MQTT).
• Build mock data generators and unit tests for isolated component validation.

Skills

Python

WebSocket

Real-time APIs

Pub/Sub

IPC

Redis

MQTT

Lab prototype

Education

Bachelor's in CS or related

Tools

FastAPI

Flask

Socket.IO

Redis

MQTT

Job description

Air Traffic Management Research Institute (ATMRI) at NTU Singapore is seeking a Research Engineer II to design a coordination server and expose RESTful and WebSocket APIs for ATM simulation environments. You will craft stateful coordination flows and collaborate with a Simulation Engineer to ingest data from discrete event simulations, enabling human-in-the-loop experiments and PoCs up to TRL4.

The role requires a Bachelor in Computer Science or related field with 7+ years of backend experience,