Research Assistant/Engineer (32-month contract), CDL, YPHSL

Job Description This position is forCentre for Digital Law, Yong Pung How School of Law (CDL, YPHSL). Assist the project PI and Co-I in designing, developing, and maintaining the project's key outputs and deliverables, including the Singapore database, open-source code repositories, project website, documentation, and research papers. Assist in engagement with partners, government agencies, and wider academic community including at roundtables, conferences, and events. Assist with supervising and delegating tasks to junior project team members including other Research Engineers and student assistants. Design and build scalable data pipelines for extracting, validating, and structuring information from Singapore legal documents (e.g. judgments, statutes, academic publications). Develop automated extraction systems using rule-based methods, text processing, and machine learning/NLP techniques for information retrieval and annotation from legal texts. Create and maintain database infrastr...