Job Overview

Tyco Electronics Singapore Pte Ltd (TE Connectivity) is looking for an R&D Scientist/Engineer to join our Corporate R&D Center.  The Scientist/Engineer will be part of a newly formed Artificial Intelligence team to create an AI Hub for TE in Singapore.  Team members will collaborate with R&D peers, business unit partners as well as local university and government research centers to undertake projects that will embed AI in TE’s design and process development work flows to deliver a competitive advantage to TE’s technologies. This position is based at our Singapore HQ. 
  
The Singapore Corporate R&D Center is chartered to work with the CTO’s and Advanced Development Groups of TE Business Units to identify technical areas of interest for R&D and develop forward looking technologies that will deliver broad value to the business. In order to improve the New Product Development process, TE is expanding our Artificial Intelligence capabilities as a part of our Digitalization strategy to improve efficiency, decrease cost, and decrease time to market.  
 

Job Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and deploy an enterprise-scale agentic AI platform to support engineering users in product design and manufacturing process development, ensuring robust, scalable, and reliable system performance.
• Collaborate with multiple business units, IT, and global engineering teams to define and execute the agentic platform and architecture strategy, including scalability, governance, and cross-functional adoption.
• Develop agentic workflows and orchestration frameworks, while providing technical support and guidance to users to ensure effective platform utilization.
• Evaluate and manage external vendors, and drive program execution to deliver platform capabilities and business impact.
• Identify and apply the latest developments in AI technology and high-performance computing to continuously improve the platform and its capabilities
• Create awareness across TE of the AI modeling capabilities of the Singapore Corporate R&D Center
• Partner with Singapore research institutes to develop advanced AI techniques and assist with validation and knowledge transfer of outsourced projects 

Job Requirements

Required: 

• Master degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, or a related field with 8-12 years (or Bachelor degree with 10-15 years, or PhD degree) plus relevant working/research experience
• Expertise in LLMs, multi-agent/agentic AI frameworks and relevant programming skills
• Enterprise AI platform deployment experience with architecture knowledge (cloud, DevOps, MLOps, etc.)
• Strong communication and stakeholder management
• Ability to lead programs independently
• Keen interest in R&D involving coding and data
• Experience in effective project management strategies and tactics
• Basic understanding of engineering knowledge such as materials/manufacturing processes   

Preferred: 

• Familiarity with TE products, such as connectors, cables, sensors etc.
• Broad knowledge of different materials’ mechanical, electric, thermal properties, including polymers, metals and alloys
• Broad knowledge of manufacturing processes (molding, extrusion, plating, stamping, assembly etc.), material development and product design 

Competencies