Senior AI & Robotics Engineer for Maritime Inspections

American Bureau of Shipping (ABS); Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) in Singapore seeks an AI/Robotics Engineer to own end-to-end delivery of advanced AI and autonomous inspection solutions for maritime and offshore industries. You will lead problem definition through production deployment, coordinate cross-functional teams, and serve as the primary technical contact for clients and leadership.

Candidates bring depth in robotics perception, computer vision, and cloud AI to guide design decisions, validate models, and ensure

Responsibilities

• Participate in the delivery of AI and robotics projects end to end — scope, milestones, resourcing, risk, and acceptance criteria.
• Identify business and operational problems, and translate them into structured technical workstreams with clear success metrics.
• Participate in project management activities; manage backlog priority, dependencies, and trade-offs between scope, quality, and timeline.
• Track and report project health, technical risk, and benefit realization to program and functional leadership.
• Serve as the trusted technical advisor to clients and internal business units on AI, computer vision, and autonomous inspection.
• Run discovery sessions, requirements workshops, and solution walkthroughs with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Support business development with technical scoping, proposal input, effort estimation, and proof-of-concept demonstrations.
• Present results and recommendations to senior stakeholders; convert pilot outcomes into adoption and scale-up plans.
• Align engineering, data, product, operations, and class/technical functions around a common delivery plan.
• Manage vendor, partner, and academic collaborations, including statements of work and deliverable acceptance.
• Drive change management and user adoption — training, documentation, handover, and post-deployment support models.
• Provide inputs to the technical approach and consult for perception and AI workstreams: sensor fusion, SLAM, defect detection, image recognition.

Skills

Robotics perception

Computer vision

Cloud AI

Azure

SLAM

Python

Tools

Azure

CI/CD

Python

Job description

American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) in Singapore seeks an AI/Robotics Engineer to own end-to-end delivery of advanced AI and autonomous inspection solutions for maritime and offshore industries. You will lead problem definition through production deployment, coordinate cross-functional teams, and serve as the primary technical contact for clients and leadership.

Candidates bring depth in robotics perception, computer vision, and cloud AI to guide design decisions, validate models, and ensure