Research Fellow / Engineer (Vision-Language Models) - WS1

EURAXESS Ireland; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) through the SIT x NVIDIA AI Centre (SNAIC) invites applications for a fixed-term research position in computer science. This role is part of an industry-innovation project with a major consumer goods company to develop an evaluation framework for vision-language models in the personal care domain.

Responsibilities include managing the project with the PI and industry partner, designing evaluation metrics, developing annotated video datasets and end-to-end

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science or related field.
• Expertise in computer vision and vision-language models.
• Experience with ML evaluation metrics and benchmarking.
• Proficiency in Python and PyTorch.
• Interest in applied, industry-collaborative research.

Responsibilities

• Manage the research project together with the Principal Investigator (PI) and industry partner to ensure all project deliverables are met.
• Design and implement evaluation frameworks and metrics for vision-language models.
• Develop annotated video datasets and capability-tagged evaluation tasks.
• Build end-to-end evaluation pipelines and failure mode analysis tools to analyze VLM performance across reasoning dimensions.
• Prepare technical reports, publications, and industry-facing deliverables.
• Candidates are to communicate with any internal or external parties to ensure project deliverables are met.
• Any other ad-hoc duties as assigned by Supervisor.

Skills

Vision-language models

Python

PyTorch

ML evaluation metrics

Benchmarking

Applied industry research

Education

PhD in Computer Science

Job description

Organisation/Company SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (SIT) Research Field Computer science Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) First Stage Researcher (R1) Application Deadline 4 Oct 2026 - 00:00 (UTC) Country Singapore Type of Contract Other Job Status Full-time Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

Schemes of Service:Research

Division:Engineering

Employment Type:Fixed Term

As a University of Applied Learning, the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) works closely with industry in its research pursuits. This position is situated within the SIT x NVIDIA AI Centre (SNAIC).

This role is part of an industry innovation project with a large consumer goods company, where you will develop an evaluation framework for vision-language model (VLM) with applications in the personal care sector. The research focuses on fine-grained VLM capabilities such as spatial reasoning, temporal grounding, event tracking, and domain knowledge using a curated multimodal dataset.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the research project together with the Principal Investigator (PI) and industry partner to ensure all project deliverables are met
• Design and implement evaluation frameworks and metrics for vision-language models
• Develop annotated video datasets and capability-tagged evaluation tasks
• Build end-to-end evaluation pipelines and failure mode analysis tools to analyze VLM performance across reasoning dimensions
• Prepare technical reports, publications, and industry-facing deliverables
• Candidates are to communicate with any internal or external parties to ensure project deliverables are met.
• Any other ad-hoc duties as assigned by Supervisor.

Requirements

• PhD in Computer Science or related field
• Expertise in computer vision and vision-language models
• Experience with ML evaluation metrics and benchmarking
• Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch)
• Interest in applied, industry-collaborative research