Jobs at NUS Enterprise

Build and operate AI-assisted workflows and system integrations for research administration. Responsibilities include developing REST and GraphQL connectors, agent tooling with deterministic guardrails, LLM-based intake and classification, milestone monitoring, testing, documentation, user acceptance, and presenting shipped solutions to leadership.

Build and evaluate benchmark datasets for LLM systems processing patent documents and deal-sourcing data. Responsibilities include reviewing and refining annotations, running blind-test evaluations, measuring extraction reliability, identifying hallucinations and edge cases, cataloging schemas, and preparing quality-acceptance reports. The role offers direct engineering supervision, stakeholder-facing projects, and deployment experience.

Build and ship internal AI-enabled applications, including data-review, deal-signal, service-monitoring, and patent/IP-management tools. Develop agents and automations connecting internal systems, integrate LLM-based judgment steps, write reliability tests, and contribute to full-stack development and deployment. Work directly with stakeholders and learn relevant patent and intellectual-property domains.

Leads regional and global paid media, brand development, content creation, event marketing, AI-driven marketing infrastructure, and budget management. The role optimizes campaign performance, adapts messaging across platforms, engages startup ecosystem stakeholders, and supports NUSX’s global venture-building mission.

The Execution Associate tackles ambiguous, high-priority problems across technology, markets, startups, research, partnerships, and venture creation. Responsibilities include rapid research and analysis, coordinating stakeholders, developing decision materials, resolving dependencies, converting broad direction into concrete actions, and independently driving work to completion. This is an intense early-career role emphasizing resourcefulness, judgment, communication, persistence, and rapid learning.

Develops intellectual property strategies supporting licensing, venture creation, industry partnerships, and research commercialization. Evaluates invention disclosures, recommends protection pathways, directs external IP counsel, reviews patent prosecution and portfolio decisions, and monitors filing, maintenance, abandonment, and jurisdictional coverage. The role also builds IP fluency through workshops, educational content, and self-service tools for researchers. Requires strong expertise in patent systems, portfolio management, IP value creation, and commercial judgment across deep-technology sectors.

Identify promising university research, build trusted relationships with faculty and innovation teams, and guide early-stage discoveries toward commercialization. Develop accessible narratives for complex scientific work, track emerging opportunities, connect researchers with market, IP, regulatory, investment, and industry expertise, and facilitate multidisciplinary translation efforts across NUSX’s innovation ecosystem.

Identify promising AI, computing, software, and control-systems research emerging from NUS and help advance it toward commercialisation. Build trusted relationships with faculty and innovation teams, scout early-stage opportunities, translate complex research into compelling narratives, track emerging projects, and connect researchers with IP strategists, investors, operators, industry partners, and internal expertise. The role requires influencing complex ecosystems, guiding early-stage experimentation, and accelerating research translation and venture-building efforts.

Manages operational coordination across partnerships, donor engagements, and ecosystem programmes. Responsibilities include contract and entitlement tracking, procurement and invoice coordination, programme delivery, stakeholder liaison, reporting, event logistics, and process improvement. The role builds scalable tracking systems, monitors commitments and risks, coordinates cross-functional inputs, and ensures externally funded initiatives, payments, reports, and partnership obligations are delivered accurately and on time.

Leads media relations and corporate communications by finding and shaping stories, developing media strategies, pitching journalists, managing interviews and events, advising senior leaders on reputation and crisis communications, coordinating PR agencies across markets, and measuring media impact. The role requires strong storytelling, editing, stakeholder advisory, agency management, and knowledge of Singapore and regional media landscapes.

Executes standard university IP commercialisation transactions, including licenses, options, assignments, technology transfer agreements, term sheets, and definitive agreements. Assesses opportunities against approved licensing pathways, guides inventors and counterparties, manages negotiations and approvals, maintains transaction records, and escalates non-standard structures. The role also supports governance processes and improves templates, workflows, playbooks, and operational practices.

Leads complex university intellectual property commercialization transactions, including licensing, assignments, options, technology transfers, and strategic partnerships. Evaluates commercialization opportunities, structures economic terms, negotiates agreements, supports governance and execution, advises stakeholders, and improves transaction frameworks. Provides coaching and technical leadership to transaction professionals while balancing commercial objectives, fair market value, stewardship obligations, and institutional interests.

Manage operational integrity of three grant streams (De-GAP, Central GAP, TDA): track budgets, claims, procurement, milestones and reporting; lead weekly operating cadence; maintain dashboards; manage audits; map and translate manual workflows into requirements for an AI-driven grant management solution; support new programme reviews for compliance and financial sustainability; coordinate across PIs, finance, procurement and vendors.

Guide and mentor deep-tech startup teams from concept to launch, scout and source university technologies, align research with market needs, support fundraising, hiring and partnerships, and collaborate with NUS Enterprise to scale ventures.

As a Visual Storyteller, you'll create impactful visuals and videos that narrate stories of entrepreneurs and research at NUS Enterprise, managing multiple projects independently.

Provide day-to-day marketing and event coordination support for a 12-month contract: manage registrations and guest communications, prepare event materials, provide on-site ushering and speaker/VIP support, coordinate vendors, assist with social media and email marketing, capture event photos and feedback, perform administrative tasks, and support post-event follow-up.

Lead technical architecture and delivery for AI automation, data integration, workflow automation, and platform capabilities. Design scalable, secure solutions, manage AI engineering delivery, set engineering standards, oversee data and inference-layer work, integrate SaaS/platforms, and establish governance, testing, and documentation for sustainable automation.