Senior AI Engineer & Tech Lead — Maritime Safety & Training

Singapore Polytechnic International; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Centre of Excellence in Maritime Safety (CEMS), a national R&D centre at Singapore Polytechnic and Singapore Maritime Institute, seeks a Senior AI Engineer/Lead to drive applied AI solutions across training, assessment, operations and digital transformation.

You will design, develop, and deploy AI models focusing on video analytics, speech recognition, and multimodal data, mentoring engineers and collaborating with internal teams and industry partners to deliver practical outcomes.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in computer vision and/or speech recognition, including model development and deployment.
• Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenCV, Hugging Face.
• Experience integrating AI models into software systems, dashboards, simulators or operational apps.
• Experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) is an added advantage.
• Experience leading AI workstreams and mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement AI models and pipelines for real-world training, assessment, safety and operations.
• Develop AI solutions involving video analytics, object detection, image classification, speech-to-text, and multimodal data.
• Work with data from video, audio, sensors, simulators and other sources to build analytics.
• Integrate AI models with software platforms, dashboards, simulators, or training platforms for deployment.
• Lead AI components within R&D projects and ensure timely delivery of outputs.
• Mentor AI engineers and guide model development within the team.
• Collaborate with internal teams, academic staff, and industry partners on AI initiatives.
• Present AI approaches and results to management and partners in a clear, practical manner.

Skills

Computer Vision

Speech Recognition

Leadership

Communication

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / AI / Computer Engineering / Data Science

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

OpenCV

Hugging Face

Job description

Centre of Excellence in Maritime Safety (CEMS), a national R&D centre at Singapore Polytechnic and Singapore Maritime Institute, seeks a Senior AI Engineer/Lead to drive applied AI solutions across training, assessment, operations and digital transformation.

You will design, develop, and deploy AI models focusing on video analytics, speech recognition, and multimodal data, mentoring engineers and collaborating with internal teams and industry partners to deliver practical outcomes.