Top Research Jobs in Singapore

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 research on AI for nature-based climate solutions by curating multimodal ecohydrological remote-sensing datasets, training and evaluating deep-learning models on high-performance computing systems, and applying them to tropical ecosystem analysis. The role requires expertise in computer vision, remote sensing, model development, reproducible experimentation, scientific writing, and programming with Python, MATLAB, and PyTorch.

Leads end-to-end market research, including questionnaire development, research design, field management, analysis, interpretation, and reporting. Manages client relationships, provides project updates, and serves as a key client liaison. Applies commercial thinking, storytelling, creativity, analytical skills, and project management expertise to transform complex briefs into actionable research approaches supporting innovation, product development, and launch decisions.

Supports research on cognitive flexibility, learning, and training-related brain changes among adults and adolescents. Responsibilities include participant recruitment, dataset organization, data coding and analysis protocols, conference and journal preparation, and administrative support. The role requires experience with cognitive testing, neuroimaging, participant recruitment, research data management, Singaporean ethical frameworks, statistical software, reporting, and general office tools.

Supports interdisciplinary research on cognitive flexibility, learning, and training-related brain changes. Responsibilities include recruiting adult participants, organizing datasets, standardizing data coding and analysis protocols, assisting with conference presentations and journal papers, and completing research administration. The role requires expertise in adult cognitive testing, neuroimaging, participant recruitment, research data management, Singaporean ethical frameworks, statistical analysis, research reporting, and strong organizational and communication skills.

Develop robotics datasets and evaluations for embodied AI systems. Responsibilities include defining data schemas, annotations, quality standards, collection protocols, validation tools, and review workflows. The role also involves running experiments to assess how data quality and structure affect model performance, collaborating with research, engineering, vendors, and customers, and taking research tools from conception through deployment.

Conduct interdisciplinary education research integrating cognitive science, psychology, statistics, data analytics, and learning sciences. Responsibilities include designing research programs, leading projects, securing external funding, publishing peer-reviewed findings, translating research into educational practice and policy, managing program administration, and contributing to institutional research initiatives and service activities.

Deliver quantitative consumer research, analytics, and insights for clients across brand health, segmentation, usage and attitudes, customer experience, and shopper insights. Build trusted client relationships, understand business priorities, present compelling data-driven recommendations, provide tactical training, ensure accurate and timely project delivery, and identify opportunities for account development.

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.