Research Assistant, Systems & Networking (School of Computing)

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORESingaporemycareersfuturepublished 09/28/2026

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Job Description

The National University of Singapore invites applications for the position of Research Assistant in the Department of Computer Science, School of Computing (SoC). SoC is strongly committed to research excellence in all its dimensions: Searching for fundamental results and insights, developing novel computational solutions to a wide range of applications, building large-scale experimental systems and improving the well-being of society. We seek to play an active role both internationally and locally in the core and emerging areas of Computer Science and Information Systems.

This is a Research Assistant (RA) position.

The RA will help conduct research in the area of distributed systems and networking. In particular, the RA will conduct engineering works toward real design, implementation and deployment of software-defined networking (SDN) based solutions in under an Internet Exchange Point (IXP) context, through which new inter-domain peering features can be enabled.

Qualifications

Strong background in computer science, especially computer networking and operating systems. Prior experiences in SDN, including P4/Tofino. Related experiences can be useful: SmartNIC/DPU, eBPF, and etc.