Top Research Jobs in Singapore

Develop modern C++ systems for systematic investing, including low-latency data processing, high-frequency trading execution, quantitative analytics libraries, and machine-learning inference tools. Collaborate with quantitative researchers to build scalable, reliable, and performant production platforms, design distributed data pipelines, evaluate system architectures, and maintain fail-safe live-market trading infrastructure.

Quantitative Research Engineers at Citadel's GQS develop software solutions, enhance trading systems, and collaborate with researchers to apply quantitative techniques.

An off-cycle quantitative trading and research internship focused on derivatives pricing, risk management, electronic execution, systematic trading, and portfolio optimization. The intern will build mathematical and machine learning models, develop pricing and hedging tools, research trading strategies, conduct scenario analysis, assess model risk, and implement high-performance analytics in production systems while collaborating with traders, risk managers, and banking teams.

Three-to-six-month quantitative trading and research internship developing mathematical models, pricing and risk tools, algorithmic trading strategies, portfolio analytics, and high-performance software. Interns apply machine learning and advanced statistics to derivatives pricing, hedging, electronic execution, market making, risk management, and systematic trading. The role involves quantitative research, scenario analysis, model validation, production implementation, collaboration with traders and risk managers, and communicating technical findings.

Build high-performance research and production systems for AI-driven systematic trading. Responsibilities include developing low-latency C++ services, market-data and execution components, quantitative research pipelines, backtesting and simulation platforms, machine-learning model deployment workflows, and monitoring infrastructure. Optimize systems for throughput, latency, memory efficiency, resilience, and deterministic behavior while partnering with quantitative researchers and traders to productionize strategies and support live trading systems.

Conduct deep AI and quantitative research for electronic trading by pre-training Transformer and time-series foundation models on large-scale financial datasets. Develop representations, architectures, self-supervised objectives, distributed training systems, fine-tuning methods, and evaluation protocols for alpha generation, pricing, execution, market making, and risk management. Study scaling laws, transfer learning, robustness, data efficiency, inference cost, and latency while collaborating with infrastructure engineers to build reusable model-training and serving components.

Conduct research for investment opportunities, evaluate viability and performance of investments, and prepare financial models and recommendations.

Research and assess Asia-based fund managers, investment strategies, and managed products. Lead manager interviews, develop rating notes and research reports, formulate investment opinions, contribute to thought leadership, and help shape research methodologies. The role also involves analytical assignments, stakeholder engagement, administrative work, and collaboration with global investment, research, data, and software teams.

Conduct ML/DL research to develop predictive models from large market datasets, integrate models into systematic trading strategies, contribute to AI/ML libraries, and deploy production algo systems with P&L responsibility across FX, Rates, Commodities, and Credit.

Support Singapore research team with data collection, market analysis, and basic financial modeling. Assist preparing reports, tracking industry news, attending events, and developing analytical skills through training and projects.

Support Singapore research team with data collection, market analysis, and basic financial modeling. Prepare presentations and reports, track industry news, attend meetings and conferences, and complete projects under mentorship to develop research and analytical skills in semiconductors and AI infrastructure.

Perform financial and market research for the semiconductor and AI industries, build and maintain industry models, prepare reports and presentations, follow earnings and product trends, and represent the firm at regional conferences.

Conduct China-focused semiconductor and AI supply-chain research, produce data-rich equity notes and weekly coverage, build bottoms-up financial models for Chinese foundries, fabless designers, memory and equipment firms, monitor disclosures and policy, engage industry contacts, and support institutional clients with timely analysis.

Supports academic research in structured light, topological photonics, nanophotonics, and 2D-material optical systems. Responsibilities include electromagnetic simulation, optical experiments, spectroscopy, microscopy, sample preparation, cleanroom fabrication, data analysis, manuscript preparation, laboratory equipment maintenance, safety compliance, procurement, and collaboration with researchers and external partners.

Supports senior analysts in producing institutional equity research on Asian and US Telecom, IT, and platform companies. Responsibilities include financial modeling, valuation, earnings forecasts, company and sector analysis, monitoring market developments, preparing investor materials, maintaining research data, and responding to client requests. The role also applies AI tools to research workflows within a compliant, fact-checked environment.

Lead and mentor a research team developing agentic AI (planning, RL, LLMs, diffusion, multi-agent systems). Define and execute research strategy, track state-of-the-art work, and build external AI community relationships to position Skyfall as a research leader.

Conduct research to advance agentic systems by developing methods for planning, reasoning, and reinforcement learning with LLMs and multi-agent systems. Design experiments, build datasets, and stay current with academic advances to improve LLM performance in complex workflows.

Develop tools and infrastructure for training language models in interactive environments, implement novel methods in language modeling, reinforcement learning and multi-agent systems, and contribute to publications and open-source projects.

Supports Microsoft Research Asia’s research planning, program execution, investment analysis, and strategic decision-making. The role evaluates research opportunities, resource requirements, risks, milestones, and potential impact; develops financial models; synthesizes research and business information; tracks evidence; and supports collaborations with Microsoft teams, customers, academia, government, and industry. It requires strong analytical judgment, financial acumen, stakeholder management, communication, and curiosity about AI and emerging technologies.

Conduct independent research on frontier AI evaluation and auditing. Design rigorous evaluations, audit methods, and reproducible experimental pipelines; analyze model capabilities, risks, robustness, and alignment-relevant behavior. Produce audit reports, recommendations, publications, tools, and presentations while collaborating with technical, policy, engineering, and standards teams. The role requires careful handling of confidential information and may involve pilot audits with frontier AI companies.

Supports Edelman’s Strategy team through industry, market, media, cultural, competitor, and audience research. The intern synthesizes findings into reports and presentations, supports qualitative research, manages research and social listening tools, contributes to strategic planning and brainstorming, and assists with administrative and knowledge-management activities. The six-month full-time internship is based in Singapore.

Coordinates administrative, operational, communications, outreach, and event activities for a university research centre. Responsibilities include developing and distributing communications, managing event logistics and stakeholders, supporting budgeting and reimbursements, tracking workflows, maintaining records, and preparing documentation and reports. The role requires strong organisation, communication, time management, digital tool proficiency, and the ability to manage multiple priorities collaboratively.

Provides administrative and operational coordination for communications, events, outreach, and institutional initiatives. Responsibilities include developing and distributing communications materials, coordinating event logistics and stakeholders, liaising with internal and external partners, supporting budgeting and reimbursements, tracking workflows, and maintaining documentation and reports. The role requires strong organization, communication, time management, digital tool proficiency, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a university environment.

Oversee NTU’s healthy longevity research programmes and strategic initiatives. Develop shared scientific roadmaps, implement internal funding programmes, coordinate interdisciplinary collaboration, manage strategic partnerships, monitor performance and funding utilisation, and support stakeholder events and governance. The role advances research translation, external funding competitiveness, and effective delivery across academic, healthcare, government, industry, and international partners.

Conduct research and literature reviews on AI applications in quantitative trading and financial investment. Develop AI solutions for optimizing investment strategies, run experiments to evaluate performance, analyze field-survey data, compare results, and write research papers. The role requires strong programming, analytical, communication, teamwork, and independent research skills, with finance knowledge and software engineering experience beneficial.