This will be a 3-years renewable contract position based in Jurong West.

Responsibilities

• Leading the research into rapid simulations, optimisation algorithms, and AI-enhanced workflows for enterprise multi-resource planning (production scheduling, operation planning, capacity planning, and sourcing and inventory analytics).
• Formulate practical algorithms to solve operational problems
• Perform solution benchmarking
• Discover novel market leading algorithms.
• Translate research outcomes into deployable solutions.
• Responsible for cutting edge scientific research directions
• Develop innovative research / project proposals aligned with industry needs.
• Responsible for competitive research funding proposals
• Support the development of R&D roadmap in enterprise optimisation.
• Publish at leading international academic or industrial journals and conferences
• Be a mentor junior researchers in scientific methods and research professionalism.

Requirements

• PhD in AI, Computer Science, Operations Research, or related disciplines (with emphasis on simulation, optimisation, machine learning, or data science).
• Minimum 3 years of experience in post-PhD research.
• Sound Knowledge of production scheduling, operations planning, capacity planning, or sourcing & inventory analytics.
• Extensive experience in modelling (e.g. discrete-event simulations), numerical optimisation (exact methods, meta-heuristics, surrogate-model-assisted methods) and AI as applied to solving various operations research problems.
• Possess leadership or project management skills
• Publications in top-tier journals and conferences.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Able to adapt to various technical and non-technical contexts: research conferences, business presentations, and software development teams.
• Positive, proactive attitude, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across multiple stakeholders.

Advantages

• Experience with industry problems under real-world conditions.
• Experience in managing project delivery teams.
• Programming and algorithm development in Python (with all the associated data science and optimisation libraries), C# .NET, software engineering, and productisation experience.

Ethos Search Associates Pte. Ltd.

EA License No: 13C6655

EA Reg No: R1988580 Jacky Chong