Top Research Jobs in Singapore

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Oversee NTU’s healthy longevity research programmes and strategic initiatives. Develop shared scientific roadmaps, implement internal funding programmes, coordinate interdisciplinary collaboration, manage strategic partnerships, monitor performance and funding utilisation, and support stakeholder events and governance. The role advances research translation, external funding competitiveness, and effective delivery across academic, healthcare, government, industry, and international partners.

Conduct research and literature reviews on AI applications in quantitative trading and financial investment. Develop AI solutions for optimizing investment strategies, run experiments to evaluate performance, analyze field-survey data, compare results, and write research papers. The role requires strong programming, analytical, communication, teamwork, and independent research skills, with finance knowledge and software engineering experience beneficial.

Supports multidisciplinary health behavioral research from planning through dissemination. Coordinates participant recruitment, data collection, ethics and regulatory submissions, databases, budgets, procurement, and stakeholder engagement. Conducts quantitative and qualitative analyses and prepares grant applications, reports, manuscripts, presentations, and research translation outputs while ensuring data governance and project compliance.

Build and maintain LLM-powered, agent-based tools that automate developer and quantitative researcher workflows. Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable solutions, applying prompt engineering, tool integration, access controls, and observability. Own projects from prototyping through deployment, rollout, and documentation while promoting strong engineering standards. The role requires Python, LLM API integration, AI application development, Linux, networking, and software engineering fundamentals.

Manage environmental research laboratories, including procurement, chemical and equipment inventories, instrument training and troubleshooting, equipment maintenance, safety inspections, risk assessments, regulatory compliance, and administrative operations. Support students and researchers using analytical instruments such as ICP-OES, GC-MS, CHN analyzers, and TOC/TN analyzers. Participate in laboratory safety and chemical spill response activities.

Build privacy and anonymization systems that detect and transform PII, credentials, secrets, and other sensitive information in data used for AI training. Develop detection methods combining rules, statistical models, classifiers, and LLMs; create production data-processing pipelines; evaluate privacy risk and retained utility; and ensure robustness against schema drift, unusual formats, leakage, and adversarial re-identification.

Conduct cancer and stem cell biology research using organoids, spheroids, and 2D cell cultures. Independently perform and analyze molecular and cellular experiments, including qRT-PCR, CRISPR manipulation, live-cell imaging, and biochemical assays. Collaborate with the PI and PhD students, optimize protocols, manage research plans, and support laboratory safety through risk assessments and SOPs.

Research and update risk and compliance profiles by monitoring public sources, extracting and validating data, analyzing anti-money laundering regulations, and producing due diligence reports. The role also supports automated workflow improvements, responds to client content inquiries, provides translation services, and contributes to research projects.

Supports interdisciplinary research on digital cultures, platforms, technology, and social transformation in Asia. Responsibilities include literature reviews, qualitative, quantitative, and computational data collection, dataset organization, preliminary analysis, academic writing, policy briefs, grant proposals, project tracking, event coordination, and collaboration with internal and external research partners.