Employment Openings

Research Scientist and Post-Doctoral Research Fellow candidates must have completed all requirements for the PhD degree by the time of appointment. Candidates must have prior research and project expertise relevant to one or more aspects of LARC work. We welcome applications from those who have recently completed a PhD, as well as from PhD degree holders who have been working for several years.

Research Engineer candidates must have completed an undergraduate or master’s degree in a relevant area to support software and system development, and technical testbed construction. An appropriate background may include computer science, computer engineering, information systems and technology, applied mathematics or statistics training and experience. This may also include other types of degree programs with a strong computational component, or programs with an emphasis on creating experimental systems. Candidates with prior project experience in industry or in R&D labs are especially encouraged to apply.

We are looking for suitable candidates with skills and experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Data mining and machine learning
• Agent-based modeling and simulation, autonomous agents, mechanism design, evolutionary algorithms,
• Operations and management science and modeling, large-scale optimization and heuristics, real-time decision support
• Experimental design, statistics and advanced econometric analysis, applied to societal-scale social networking and consumer behavior issues
• Empirical analysis, marketing science and IS research approaches to large social network, blogs, social media data sets; dynamic streaming data in telecommunications, digital entertainment, advertising, financial services, hospitality, and other business and media application areas
• Mobile systems and prototypes, with focus on continuous mobile sensing and context-aware computing technologies
• Strong software and systems skills, and experience with building, testing and scaling R&D prototype systems

For all of these LARC related R&D areas, applicants should have interest in innovation, large-scale R&D projects, working in project teams, and with doing applied R&D that leads to industry application and impact, as well as IP creation.

The salary for these positions will be based on the candidate's relevant experience and qualifications.

To apply, send your application materials to larc@smu.edu.sg.

Your application submission must include: