Research Scientist (CFAR), IHPC

The ASTAR—NRF Postdoctoral Award (NRF-PA), jointly supported by Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR) and the National Research Foundation (NRF), is a prestigious programme designed to attract and empower outstanding early-career researchers. The fellowship will focus on cultivating AI talents, driving innovation and breakthroughs at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and STEM, with real-world impact in areas such as precision health solutions, advanced manufacturing, sustainability, and quantum technologies. Fellows will join ASTAR’s world-class research community, working closely with academia, hospitals, and industry to transform cutting-edge science into solutions that address Singapore’s and the world’s most pressing challenges., working closely with academia, hospitals, and industry to transform cutting-edge science into solutions that address Singapore’s and the world’s most pressing challenges. Successful candidates will be responsible, but not limited to: Work with AI scientists in ASTAR CFAR to develop Safe and Trustworthy AI algorithms and solve challenging real-world problems, and publish high-impact papers to advance science. Develop machine learning pipelines to foundation models and their downstream applications. Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to integrate domain knowledge from linguistics, social sciences, and advanced technologies. ABOUT ASTAR AND CFAR At ASTAR, we make it our mission to attract and develop a diversity of talent along the research, innovation, and enterprise value chain, with career paths developed for scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs. In return, we commit to investing in the personal and professional growth of each of our officers. Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFAR) has a team of exemplary AI researchers committed to solve most exciting problems in the future AI, including IEEE fellows, chairs, scholars, and advisors among some of the most highly cited researchers in the world. Our AI Centre provides a unique research environment for fundamental AI research and cultivates next-gen AI scientists. If you are passionate about advancing AI alignment in multicultural societies and enabling scalable, efficient LLM adaptation, we encourage you to apply. JOB REQUIREMENT PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or related fields with atleast 5 years of relevant experience. High potential in securing competitive grants. Strong track record of research in AI. (e.g. 500+ citations from publications in related conferences like ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, IJCAI, AAAI, KDD, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, ICCV, or journals such as JMLR, AIJ, MLJ, IJCV, IEEE Transactions and ACM Transactions) Knowledge in one of the AI programming frameworks. (e.g., PyTorch,TensorFlow, JAX) Strong problem solving and analytical skills. Strong communication and presentation skills. The above eligibility criteria are not exhaustive. A*STAR may include additional selection c