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.

Lead research on improving AI agent training data and evaluations. Manage and mentor research engineers, define research direction, design rigorous experiments, validate data quality, diagnose reward and grading failures, and translate findings into scalable tools, workflows, and standards. Collaborate with engineers, domain experts, and vendors while communicating technical conclusions and tradeoffs clearly.

Supports multidisciplinary academic research in biomechanics, robotics, advanced materials, simulation, and BioMEMS. Responsibilities include developing computational models, conducting biomechanical experiments, fabricating tissue simulants through 3D printing, optimizing sensor and data acquisition systems, analyzing results, preparing research outputs, coordinating vendors and collaborators, tracking technical deliverables, and maintaining laboratory safety and equipment.

Supports credit research through financial statement analysis, company and industry research, financial modeling, market monitoring, valuation analysis, and research publication preparation. The intern contributes to investment views, tracks credit-market developments, collaborates with teams across Global Markets and wealth businesses, and attends investor meetings and industry events. The role develops skills in credit analysis, financial modeling, investment research, communication, and stakeholder engagement.

Supports equity research through company and industry analysis, financial modeling, valuation, market intelligence, and preparation of research reports and investment materials. Collaborates with research analysts and internal stakeholders across Global Markets, Wealth Management, Private Banking, and Securities. Attends investor meetings and industry events while developing analytical, communication, and financial market expertise.

Supports macroeconomic and financial market research by monitoring global developments, analysing economic indicators and market data, creating models and visualisations, and helping prepare research publications. The intern will use Bloomberg, Eikon, CEIC, and Microsoft Office tools while collaborating with economists, strategists, traders, sales professionals, and asset managers. The role develops skills in economic research, financial modelling, data analysis, market intelligence, presentation, and communication.

Supports FX and rates strategy research by analyzing macroeconomic indicators, central bank policies, market trends, and precious metals markets. Responsibilities include collecting and managing financial data, maintaining models, monitoring market developments, contributing to thematic research, preparing publications, and collaborating with strategists, traders, sales teams, and other stakeholders.

Supports development, transfer, validation, and execution of in-vitro biochemical and immunochemical assays replacing live-fish vaccine testing. Responsibilities include sample collection, antibody-response measurement, laboratory automation, analytical instrumentation, GLP and SOP compliance, data documentation, trend reporting, and statistical analysis within a regulated fish-vaccine R&D and quality-control environment.

Early-career research role implementing and running experiments on LLM reasoning, post-training alignment, and agentic AI for crypto markets. Tasks include literature synthesis, model implementation (PyTorch/Hugging Face), experiment tracking (Weights & Biases), and collaborating with engineers to translate research into production.

Conduct site selection, initiation, monitoring, and close-out visits for clinical trials. Maintain study documentation, support subject recruitment, train sites on protocols, assess site quality, and track regulatory submissions, recruitment, CRF completion, and data query resolution. The role requires collaboration with sites and customers, knowledge of GCP and clinical research regulations, strong organization, and flexibility to travel.

Supports software testing, development, maintenance, debugging, telemetry system and dashboard development, threat detection initiatives, code reviews, and research into new tools. Collaborates with cybersecurity research, kernel, performance, and QA teams while gaining practical experience in software engineering, monitoring workflows, and cybersecurity concepts.

Manages study start-up teams, staffing, resources, timelines, metrics, and process improvement in a global clinical research environment. Oversees direct reports, forecasting, training, SOP compliance, regulatory guidance, client presentations, feasibility analysis, costing, and stakeholder transitions. Establishes harmonized start-up processes and supports business development while coordinating activities across multiple countries.

Conduct research on developing and scaling calcium-based sorbents for CO2 capture from combustion flue gas. Responsibilities include experimental design, reactor operation, troubleshooting, data analysis, project coordination, procurement, research publication, collaborator communication, training, and preparation of project reports and recommendations.

Provide Level 1 and Level 2 support for in-house trading applications, resolve complex production incidents, and partner with trading and engineering teams during market hours. Automate repetitive support workflows, modernize monitoring and alerting, oversee deployments and configuration changes, and participate in on-call support. The role requires Python and Bash scripting, Linux, SQL, Git, distributed-systems troubleshooting, and production engineering experience.

Conduct equity research on ASEAN companies across multiple sectors. Build and maintain earnings models, perform financial analysis, monitor global news, develop differentiated investment insights, write research reports, respond to client requests, and support analyst-led client interactions. The role requires strong accounting and financial modeling skills, rapid analytical judgment, proactive research, deadline management, and collaboration across global teams.

Develop, train, evaluate, and deploy learning-based visuomotor manipulation policies on physical humanoid robots. Responsibilities include robot data collection, behavior cloning, reinforcement learning, manipulation behaviors, real-world robustness, simulation-to-reality transfer, and integration with perception, controls, systems, and hardware teams. The role requires reliable robotics software, experimental analysis, and informed tradeoffs between classical and learning-based approaches.

Support lead analysts by maintaining industry models, perform financial analysis and three-statement modeling, research semiconductor and AI markets, prepare reports and presentations, represent the firm at APAC events, and contribute to newsletter articles.

Conduct research on AI for smart manufacturing, including literature reviews, development of AI solutions for optimization, experimental validation, field-survey data analysis, comparative evaluation, and research paper writing.