Position Summary

As a Research Engineer at the Technology Centre for Offshore and Marine, Singapore (TCOMS), you will work at the forefront of experimental hydrodynamics and maritime, offshore, and marine R&D. In this role you will help build the innovative capabilities that we will use to measure and control physical quantities in the cutting-edge experiments performed in our state-of-the-art ocean basin.

This is a hands-on, intellectually stimulating role where theory meets practice, and where your contributions directly shape the insights we deliver to industry and academia.

Key Responsibilities

• Work in interdisciplinary teams to translate project requirements into experiments that yield insights for our clients. Your role in these teams is to contribute to the instrumentation, data acquisition, control, and mechatronics aspects of the project through all its stages.

• Work in interdisciplinary teams to advance the quality, improve the efficiency, and expand the scope of our test capabilities by developing new measurement/mechatronic systems and enhancing existing ones. You will contribute to or take the lead on the electrical/mechatronics and control/embedded software aspects of these projects. (Some things we work on: electric ducted fans, force-controlled winches, autonomous vessel models, actuators that mimic nonlinear springs.)

• Serve as the custodian of our data acquisition capabilities, which underpin the measurement and control of physical quantities in all our experiments. You will be the team"s data acquisition subject matter expert and lead our efforts to maintain and enhance our data acquisition capabilities in all aspects: hardware and software development, rigorous testing and characterisation, work process design, and technical knowledge management.

• Continuously deepen your technical expertise and contribute to the team"s growth by sharing your knowledge through technical reports and seminars.

• Besides the fun stuff, you will also be expected to undertake your share of the mundane, like the rest of us in the team! Writing documentation, calibrating sensors, setting up experiments, and housekeeping, just to name a few, are all par for the course.

Skills, Qualifications, Experience
• Bachelor"s degree in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience, which should equip you with a solid foundation in electronics, programming, signals, and automatic control.

• Strong real-time embedded system software development skills. Experience with developing real-time embedded systems is highly desirable. Experience with National Instruments products, particularly LabVIEW and compactRIO, is ideal.

• Good experience with sensors and data acquisition systems, backed by a strong grasp of the fundamentals (e.g. sensor physics, analog-digital conversion, sampling, filtering, transforms etc.).

• A solid electrical/electronics foundation, both in terms of knowledge as well as technical skills. Experience with analogue electronics and resolving power and signal integrity issues is highly desirable.

• Experience with the design and development of mechatronics systems, especially involving the application of control theory in these systems, is advantageous.

Experience with the following is advantageous:

• Git
• MATLAB
• Python
• Linux
• Motor/servo drives
• Networking and communications protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP, EtherCAT, PTP, etc.

What You Need to Succeed
• Curiosity.
• A critical mind with a keen attention to detail.
• A healthy regard to both theory and practice; you are not afraid to get your hands dirty with both mathematical models and physical models.
• An unwavering commitment to upholding a high level of professional and scientific integrity, as a member of the technical staff in a test facility and a scientific institution.
• Strong communication skills are essential to facilitate the high level of interdisciplinary collaboration expected within our teams.
• A highly resourceful, self-driven team-player; we are not seeking an employee to delegate work to, but a partner to collaborate with.

Why Join Us
• Gain not just a front row seat to the latest exciting technological developments in the marine, offshore, and maritime industry, but also the opportunity to advance the state of the art.
• Experience (and have fun!) building and testing complex measurement and mechatronics systems that will challenge your understanding and grow your expertise.
• Collaborate with and learn from people with diverse academic backgrounds and experience.

Who We Are

TCOMS is a national R&D centre dedicated to the Marine & Offshore and Maritime sectors. Our next-generation Deepwater Ocean Basin research facility is equipped with advanced wave and current generation systems to simulate challenging ocean environments that marine platforms and ships operate in.

You will join us as a Research Engineer in the Physical Modelling Division, the team behind the ocean basin. We are scientists and engineers with various backgrounds and expertise (naval architecture, marine and offshore engineering, fluid mechanics, mechanical design, machine learning, automatic control, and more...). Working together in interdisciplinary project teams, we translate scientific questions posed by real world problems into experiments that we conduct in the ocean basin facility. Most importantly, we transform experimental data into insights for our clients.

The above eligibility criteria are not exhaustive. A*STAR may include additional selection criteria based on its prevailing recruitment policies. These policies may be amended from time to time without notice. We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.