Lecturer (AI Engineering & App Development) - School of Computing

Singapore Polytechnic

Fixed Terms

Closing on 21 Sep 2025

What the role is

Most Positive Workplace Collaboration Award - Singapore International Chamber of Commerce Awards 2025

Ranked #19 for The Straits Times Singapore's Best Employers 2024 & 2025

The job of an academic is challenging and meaningful.

Not only will he/she have both the knowledge and working experience, he/she must also possess a passion for working with youths, nurturing them and moulding their characters.

There will be opportunities to develop the curriculum, introduce new courses as well as be involved in consultancy and other applied research projects.

Administrative work related to teaching and School/Institutional strategic initiatives will be an important part of the job too.

Successful candidates will be expected to be resourceful and innovative with initiative and good communication skills.

AI Engineering & App Development
The appointee must be competent to teach in at least three of the following subjects:

• Fullstack Web Development
• Big Data Technologies
• Data Engineering
• DevOps & Automation for AI
• AI & Machine Learning
• Deep Learning
• Practical AI
• Machine Learning in Python
• Graph Database & Analytics

What you will be working on

Responsibilities:-

• Conduct lessons, create teaching and assessment materials, and facilitate learning of students (youths and adult learners)
• Develop and maintain new/existing teaching curriculum.
  
  This includes regular review of existing curriculum and make recommendations on areas of improvements that would enhance students' learning, performance and employability.
  
  
• Keep current and abreast of trends and developments of AI / Machine Learning engineering deployment such as ML & Data Ops, Severless ML Deployment
• Support the School' strategic initiatives through involvement in committee work and projects such as research and consultancy projects, development and management of new courses

What we are looking for

Requirements:-

• Minimum 2 years of relevant work experience in AI engineering, application development, data engineering or AI/ML ops engineering
• Proficient in at least one of the programming languages (Python, JavaScript)

• Familiar with:

• ML Lifecycle

• Model Versioning, DVC tools
• CI/CD for ML

• Added advantage if applicant has experience in:

• Full Stack Web Development

• Software Engineering
• Containerisation and Orchestration implementation
• Serverless ML Deployments (Cloud)
• Model Security
• Passionate about education and possess strong interest in teaching and mentoring both youths and adult learners.
  
  
• Self-driven, independent and possess readiness to work as a team.
  
  

Successful candidate will be offered a 2-year contract in the first instance.

About Singapore Polytechnic

As Singapore's first polytechnic, Singapore Polytechnic (SP) prides ourselves in providing the best learning experience for our students in pre-employment and continuing adult education.

The mission of SP is to prepare our learners to be life ready, work ready and world ready.

Our vision is to be a caring community of inspired learners committed to serving with mastery.

About your application process

This job is closing on 21 Sep 2025.

If you do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the job ad closing date, we seek your understanding that it is likely that we are not moving forward with your application for this role.

We thank you for your interest and would like to assure you that this does not affect your other job applications with the Public Service.

We encourage you to explore and for other roles within Singapore Polytechnic or the wider Public Service.