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Senior Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist

Silent EightSingapore, Singapore, Singapore
28 days ago
Job description

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At Silent Eight, we develop our own AI-based products to combat financial crimes that enable things like money laundering, the financing of terrorism, and systemic corruption. We’re a leading RegTech firm working with large international financial institutions such as Standard Chartered Bank and HSBC. Join us and help make the world a safer place!

Responsibilities

  • Lead complex R&D initiatives : drive research and innovation in LLMs, NLP, machine learning, and graph analytics, turning advanced techniques into production-grade solutions.
  • Own the full data science lifecycle : from discovery, framing, and exploration to deployment, customer delivery, and long-term monitoring.
  • Shape ambiguous challenges into well-defined problem statements and design practical, state-of-the-art solutions aligned with business and regulatory needs.
  • Engage directly with customers and stakeholders : collaborate to co-design use cases, set success metrics, and ensure solutions are adopted, measurable, and impactful.
  • Mentor and guide peers : elevate technical excellence, foster knowledge-sharing, and set best practices for experimentation, testing, and deployment.
  • Prototype rapidly : explore new ideas and validate hypotheses quickly, while balancing innovation with scalability and maintainability.
  • Ensure production success : design, implement, and optimize pipelines for data integration, validation, monitoring, and retraining to sustain long-term model performance.
  • Communicate effectively : distill technical complexity into compelling business insights, helping stakeholders make informed decisions.
  • Champion excellence in execution : enforce best practices in MLOps, DataOps, and software engineering to deliver reproducible, maintainable, and scalable solutions.
  • Continuously improve tooling and processes that accelerate delivery, experimentation, and collaboration across the data science function.

Requirements

  • Based in Singapore (remote-first team; flexible working environment).
  • Bachelor’s degree, Master or PhD in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, or related field.
  • 6+ years of hands-on experience delivering data science projects from research to production, ideally in mission-critical domains.
  • Proven expertise with LLMs and modern NLP frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI APIs, HuggingFace, etc.).
  • Strong foundation in machine learning, graph analytics, anomaly detection, and unstructured data workflows.
  • Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL with a track record of writing clean, modular, testable, and production-ready code.
  • Experience with large-scale data platforms (e.g., PySpark, BigQuery) and scalable ML deployments.
  • Solid knowledge of MLOps and DataOps, including CI / CD, monitoring, retraining, and reproducibility.
  • Comfortable in Linux, Git, Docker, and modern collaboration workflows.
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills : able to translate technical insights into business outcomes and influence at all levels.
  • Proven ability to drive measurable impact : balancing state-of-the-art research with practical, customer-driven implementation.
  • A mindset of ownership, flexibility, and resilience : you adapt quickly, handle ambiguity, and are committed to delivering results.

    • Seniority level

  • Mid-Senior level

    • Employment type

  • Full-time

    • Job function

  • Engineering and Information Technology

    • Industries

  • Software Development

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