Senior AI Engineer & Lead – Vision & Speech AI

Singapore Polytechnic (SP); Singapore; On-site; SGD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Singapore Polytechnic's Centre of Excellence in Maritime Safety (CEMS) is seeking a Senior AI Engineer/Lead to develop applied AI solutions for training, assessment, operations, research and digital transformation.

You will supervise AI engineers, plan projects, and ensure delivery across AI workstreams while collaborating with internal teams, academic staff, industry partners, and external stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks.
• Hands-on CV and/or speech recognition experience.
• Experience integrating AI into software systems.
• Familiarity with LLMs is a plus.
• Strong communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement AI models and pipelines for real-world applications in training, assessment, safety, operations, and decision-support.
• Develop AI solutions involving video analytics, object detection, image classification, visual attention analysis, speech-to-text, audio processing, and related tuned AI tasks.
• Work with data from video, audio, sensors, simulators, operational systems, and other sources to develop AI-enabled analytics and assessment capabilities.
• Integrate AI models with software platforms, dashboards, simulators, sensor systems, training platforms, or decision-support tools to support practical deployment and operational use.
• Explore, evaluate, and prototype AI techniques, including deep learning, sequence models, multimodal learning, NLP, and LLM applications where relevant.
• Lead AI components within R&D projects, manage technical milestones, prepare documentation, and ensure timely delivery of project outputs.
• Supervise and mentor AI engineers or junior team members, review approaches, guide model development, and support capability building within the AI team.
• Work with internal teams, academic staff, industry partners, and external stakeholders to co-develop AI solutions and apply AI capabilities across centre-, department-, and school-level initiatives.
• Present AI approaches, findings, prototypes, and project outcomes to management, project partners, and industry collaborators in a clear and practical manner.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

OpenCV

AI model deployment

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Hugging Face

Docker

Git

API integration

Job description

Singapore Polytechnic's Centre of Excellence in Maritime Safety (CEMS) is seeking a Senior AI Engineer/Lead to develop applied AI solutions for training, assessment, operations, research and digital transformation.

You will supervise AI engineers, plan projects, and ensure delivery across AI workstreams while collaborating with internal teams, academic staff, industry partners, and external stakeholders.