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.

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.

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.

Edits and rewrites financial research reports, collaborating with analysts and production teams to improve clarity, accuracy, visual appeal, timeliness, and commercial impact. Ensures compliance with regulatory requirements and house style while refining titles and executive summaries. Manages editorial projects, maintains brand integrity, and contributes creative ideas to enhance publications.

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.