Vision-Language Models Research Fellow & Engineer

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

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