Top Research Jobs in Singapore

Drive long-term research and build production-ready enterprise AI: prototype and scale models, lead projects, validate with customers, collaborate with product and engineering to deliver large-scale generative AI and agent systems.

Conduct paleoseismic trenching, fault-zone and bedrock analysis, geological sample characterization, laboratory testing, scientific data management, and technical reporting. The Research Engineer II role develops and validates operational seismic-processing software, integrates AI-assisted earthquake monitoring workflows, contributes to research publications, and mentors students. Roles require multidisciplinary collaboration, detailed documentation, and field or laboratory work.

Supports paleoseismology, neotectonics, and geodetic research through geological fieldwork, trench investigations, sample processing, levelling-data digitization, quality control, and analysis. Responsibilities include geological and geodetic data management, integration of levelling, InSAR, and GNSS observations, technical reporting, and collaboration across multidisciplinary research teams. The role may involve demanding fieldwork, regional travel, and mentoring undergraduate interns.

Design and optimize high-frequency trading infrastructure, including exchange connectivity, market-data systems, trading simulations, risk tools, and performance tracking. Develop low-latency network and systems software, analyze market data, and build tools for identifying trading patterns. Candidates should have a computer science degree, C++ development experience, strong data structures and algorithms knowledge, and familiarity with high-throughput systems, Linux, and networking.

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 a movement science research project investigating creativity, motor skills, and multimodal brain and movement data. Responsibilities include recruiting and scheduling participants, collecting video and 3D motion capture data, organizing large datasets, conducting analyses in R, JASP, Python, and MATLAB, preparing reports and publications, and maintaining the Motor Behavior Lab.

Conduct interdisciplinary research developing in vitro bioelectronic tissue models through biofabrication and biomaterials engineering. Responsibilities include preparing hydrogels and bioinks, 3D bioprinting cell-laden constructs, performing mammalian cell culture and biological assays, conducting electrical and functional characterization, analyzing microscopy data, maintaining records, supporting publications, and contributing to laboratory operations and collaborations.

Conduct research on security vulnerabilities in 4G/5G cellular networks and core network systems. Analyze architectures, protocols, and implementations; design experiments to validate vulnerabilities and assess their impact; and develop testbeds, prototypes, and security analysis tools. Contribute to publications, technical reports, presentations, and project deliverables while collaborating with the principal investigator and research team.

Manages clinical study start-up teams, staffing, resources, timelines, metrics, and process improvements across multiple countries. Oversees direct reports through mentoring, training, performance management, and career development. Supports feasibility, costing, proposals, client presentations, SOPs, regulatory compliance, and study transitions. Establishes harmonized start-up processes while coordinating stakeholders and ensuring adherence to ICH/GCP, FDA, European regulatory, and applicable ethics committee requirements.

Monitor live trading and portfolio risk, develop automated trading operations software, coordinate software and hardware upgrades, manage cross-functional projects, scale trading operations through programmatic solutions, and resolve discrepancies involving trading positions, broker statements, and internal applications.

Leads academic research projects, develops novel prototypes and experimental methods, manages research funding and project progress, collaborates with industry and research partners, presents findings, and mentors graduate and undergraduate students. The role requires strong analytical, communication, experimental design, modeling, teamwork, and independent research capabilities, along with a preferred master’s degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, or an equivalent field.

Conduct research on scalable algorithms for spatial data systems, publish high-quality research papers, and build deployable systems from research results. The role involves designing experiments, implementing experimental methods, applying modelling techniques, collaborating across disciplines, monitoring project progress, and reporting findings.

Supports the Social Cohesion Research Programme through literature reviews, multivariate analysis of cross-national data, online trend detection, database management, report writing, and statistical tabulations. The role also assists with strategic events and meetings and provides insights for decision-making and communication. Candidates should have a social sciences or data analytics degree and familiarity with Singaporean and regional cultural dynamics.

Conduct research on spatial data systems by designing scalable algorithms, writing high-quality research papers, and developing deployable systems. The role involves formulating hypotheses, designing experiments, implementing experimental methods, applying modelling techniques, collaborating across disciplines, and overseeing and reporting project progress.

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.

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.