Senior Principal Data Scientist (Fulfilment)

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Get to Know the Team

The Fulfilment Tech Family is an integral part of Grab, connecting our wide-ranging marketplaces across Southeast Asia. We develop real-time distributed systems and machine learning solutions to process hundreds of millions of requests daily, ensuring efficient allocation of supply, pricing, and seamless order matching.

Our mission :

• Build reliable and impactful products for driver-partners.
• Optimize the ability to fulfil consumer needs in any conditions.
• Develop sustainable marketplaces, balancing user experience and operational costs across stakeholders.

We're hiring a Senior Principal Data Scientist to join the Fulfilment team. You're an individual contributor whom will lead strategic optimization initiatives that elevate pricing, dispatch, and supply management strategies. You'll combine in-depth data-driven methodologies with a strategic mindset to drive automation and marketplace efficiency.

Get to Know the Role

As a Senior Principal Data Scientist, you'll shape and advance cross-system Fulfilment strategies, accounting for how passengers and driver-partners respond to platform interventions. You'll leverage machine learning and operations research methodologies to optimize marketplace-level operational outcomes.

Through joint optimization across systems—pricing, dispatch, and supply positioning—you'll design interpretable, adaptable, and multi-objective-aware Reinforcement Learning decision agents. You'll model marketplace behaviour and develop policies to automate key aspects of platform operations, contributing lasting impact for customers, driver-partners, and Grab.

You'll report to the Head of Data Science and work onsite at Grab's One North Singapore office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

What Essential Skills You Will Need

Life at Grab

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What We Stand For at Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.

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