Senior Engineer/ Engineer/ Engineering Associate (PI), Multimodal AI Engineer

Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) is founded in 2000 by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. As Hong Kong’s largest government-funded research and development centre, ASTRI is a key force and super‑connector driving innovation and technology advancement in Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, and the global innovation ecosystem. This role is strengthened through its merger with Nano and Advanced Materials Institute (NAMI).

Committed to bringing high‑impact research from lab to market, ASTRI advances interdisciplinary, market‑driven R&D that delivers practical innovations for industry and meaningful benefits for society.

Its technological strengths and capabilities enable AI‑powered, cross‑disciplinary ICT and advanced materials solutions across Smart City, Financial Technologies, Digital Health and Life Sciences, New Industrialisation and Intelligent Manufacturing, Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) and Advanced Electronics, New Energy and Energy Storage, and Green and ESG Technologies.

Over the years, ASTRI has cultivated a strong pool of I&T talent and earned numerous international awards for its pioneering innovations and contributions to industry and the community. Following the merger with NAMI, ASTRI’s cumulative global patent portfolio has grown to over 1,500, with more than 2,200 technologies successfully transferred to industry.

With enhanced scale and capabilities, ASTRI is uniquely positioned to elevate Hong Kong’s innovation capacity, accelerate technology commercialisation, and drive societal and economic progress through world‑class applied research.

To support our constant endeavour to position Hong Kong as a world-class smart city and an international hub of innovation and technology, we are seeking qualified professionals to fill the following position(s):

Job Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and deploy AI solutions focusing on automatic speech recognition (ASR), large language models (LLM), and multimodal AI systems.

• Conduct algorithm research on ASR-LLM integration, model quantization, and optimization for resource-constrained environments.

• Fine-tune and adapt foundation models (including Whisper, FunASR, Qwen-ASR, Qwen, Deepseek and other open-source models) for production applications.

• Build and optimize end-to-end ML/AI pipelines from experimentation to deployment and monitoring.

• Perform model evaluation and data benchmarking to enhance performance with high-quality datasets.

• Explore emerging technologies including AI agents and tool-calling architectures.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable AI-powered solutions.

• Contribute to technical strategy and establish best practices for AI development.

• Perform ad-hoc duties as assigned.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or related STEM discipline.

• Fresh graduates are welcome to apply.

• Familiarity with model optimization techniques, MLOps practices, and deployment pipelines.

• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AliCloud, AWS, Azure, or GCP) is advantageous.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to work effectively in teams.

• Good command of written and spoken English and Cantonese.

• Lives ASTRI values.

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• Name of University

• Degree/PhD obtained/expecting and when

• Have you participated in ITF Research Talent Hub before? Yes/No

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• Have you been employed by ASTRI before? If yes, please state the period

For interested parties, please submit your application with detailed CV within two weeks of the post date. Applicants are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible. The review of applications will continue until post is filled.

The application will be open until the position is filled while ASTRI reserves the right not to fill the position. Only short-listed candidates will be notified.

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