Assistant Research Officer

Company Overview:

Wilmar International Limited is Asia’s leading agribusiness group. Wilmar International business activities include oil palm cultivation, edible oils refining, oilseeds crushing, consumer pack edible oils processing and merchandising, specialty fats, oleochemicals, and biodiesel manufacturing, and grains processing and merchandising. It has over 1,000 manufacturing plants and an extensive distribution network covering China, India, Indonesia and some 50 other countries. The Group is backed by a multinational workforce of about 100,000 people.

Job Summary

We are currently recruiting a position for an assistant research officer to join Wilmar’s corporate lab (WIL@NUS). The potential candidate will be primarily involved in data analytics and machine learning. The project objectives are to model analytical data collected from Wilmar's factories or R&D centres to predict quality parameters related to the product.

Main responsibilities of the incumbent (not limited to):

1. Manage and pre-process data
2. Ability to code and script based on specified tasks
3. Statistical analysis and machine learning experience in the following areas
4. Forecasting using time series data
5. Neural networks, in particular recurrent and long short term memory networks
6. Versatile in applying computational techniques to solve open problems
7. Participate in seminars and research-in-progress meetings within the team and collaborators
8. Travel on an ad-hoc basis for project discussions and data collection

Job requirements:

1. At least a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Statistics/Mathematics
2. Team player and ability to communicate technical concepts to lay people
3. Ability to code in a few languages - R, Python, Java, Bash
4. Machine learning and statistical background
5. Positive learning attitude towards new ideas