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.

Develops interest-rate forecasting models and produces forecasts, research reports, and yield-curve analysis across global and Asian markets. Advises internal stakeholders and external clients, supports relationship managers and sales teams, presents at client and industry events, and participates in media engagements. The role also contributes fixed-income and credit research while requiring strong quantitative modeling, Excel, Bloomberg, communication, and presentation skills.

Conduct educational research on AI-supported mathematics learning. Responsibilities include designing primary mathematics materials and research instruments, reviewing literature, performing quantitative and qualitative data analysis, coordinating school-based data collection, maintaining project documentation, preparing research reports, and providing administrative support to principal investigators.

Supports an academic study on AI-supported mathematics education through quantitative data management, cleaning, statistical analysis, assessment validation, literature searches, citation management, learning-material proofreading, school-based data collection, research administration, and stakeholder communication. The role also assists with survey and test administration, equipment setup, project documentation, and other research support duties for the Principal Investigators.

Six-month Research Analyst internship supporting primary, secondary, qualitative, quantitative, and AI-assisted research. Responsibilities include data collection, quality control, media and social content analysis, sentiment and trend analysis, desk research, dashboard configuration, automated reporting, and project coordination. The intern will collaborate on client projects, contribute to strategic communications insights, and receive training and mentorship in research, analytics, communications, and marketing intelligence.

Supports Singapore arts and culture data projects by extracting, cleaning, transforming, analyzing, and modeling data. Builds dashboards and visualizations using Excel, AWS QuickSight, SQL, Python, and Tableau; documents data practices; and contributes to a new data warehouse and visualization platform. The role also provides exposure to stakeholder engagement, knowledge management, and organizational adoption of data solutions.

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 a grant-funded linguistics research project on Austronesian languages through interview scheduling, consent administration, transcription, annotation, qualitative data processing, archival data management, literature reviews, supervision of junior assistants, and preparation of reports and community-facing dissemination materials. The role requires English and Malay or Indonesian proficiency, attention to detail, research ethics awareness, and collaboration with researchers and language communities.

Conduct quantitative analysis of the Chinese energy market, collaborate with modeling teams, structure economic problems, interpret model results, support product development, and communicate insights and recommendations to clients. The role requires strong quantitative skills, interest in energy markets and policy, teamwork, communication, and fluent Mandarin.

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.

Conduct research in machine intelligence, deep learning, foundation models, and AI applications. Analyze algorithms on large-scale datasets, implement scalable prototypes, collaborate on systems from research through production, and develop solutions for real-world problems. The intern will investigate research tools and methods, contribute to technology transfer, and potentially support patents, publications, standards, internal tools, and product or business collaborations.

Design, implement, and deploy efficient adaptive machine learning systems that retrain or fine-tune models using production data. The role combines applied research with production engineering, including data strategy, model evaluation, online learning, reinforcement learning, observability, and real-world product development. The engineer will own data products, solve novel technical challenges, and collaborate closely with the founding team on research and product direction.

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.

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.