How to become an artificial intelligence applied researcher
Official title: Artificial intelligence applied researcher
Also called: AI Applied Researcher
Artificial intelligence (AI) applied researcher designs and conducts AI research and development, manages data collection and preparation and synthesises insights to identify potential use cases of AI for the business. He/she presents AI research and development outcomes to senior management and/or business stakeholders at public forums. He/she determines the patentability of AI solutions and assists in the process for obtaining intellectual property rights for AI solutions. He/she may also tune or invent new AI models.
Main tasks
- Revising, repairing or expanding existing programmes to increase operating efficiency or adapt to new requirements
- Conducting trial runs of programmes and software applications to confirm that they will produce the desired information
- Compiling and writing documentation of programme development
- Identifying and communicating technical problems, processes and solutions
Ways in
- University: Computing & IT degrees, Offered by 5 universities in Singapore
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.
Related jobs
- Applications/Systems programmer
- Artificial intelligence/Machine learning engineer
- Systems designer/analyst
- ICT business process consultant/business analyst
- Enterprise/Solution/Software architect
- ICT product manager
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Questions people ask
How do I become an artificial intelligence applied researcher?
Ways in include: Computing & IT degrees.
Will AI change the work of an artificial intelligence applied researcher?
Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026