Top Research Jobs in Singapore

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.

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.

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.

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.

Supports humanities, arts, and social science researchers through coding, digital methods, data collection and analysis, cloud services, and web or mobile application development. Responsibilities include training researchers, maintaining the Centre website and portal, supporting technical research proposals and publications, managing software development guidelines, and improving research services. The role also involves ethical data scraping, dataset preparation, academic events, and staying current with relevant software development practices.

Provides technical and methodological support for digital humanities, arts, and social sciences research. Responsibilities include coding, dataset collection and preparation, web and mobile application development, cloud service support, website maintenance, digital methods training, research proposal assistance, software development standards, and service improvement. The role also supports academic events and collaborates with researchers and technical teams across NTU and Singapore.

Design, develop, and deploy software solutions for automated trading systems while collaborating with researchers on technology priorities.

Join a cross-asset front-office quant trading team to design and implement algorithmic execution strategies, back-test models and signals, develop low-latency infrastructure and transaction-cost-analysis models, and perform statistical analysis to optimize client execution.

Join a front-office quantitative trading team to design and implement algorithmic execution strategies, back-test models and signals, build low-latency trading tools, and run real-time and post-trade transaction cost analysis to optimize execution.

Write and optimize CUDA/Triton kernels to implement novel ML efficiency methods; perform performance attribution and roofline analysis across the serving stack; make slow reference implementations production-viable; collaborate with AI Cloud platform team and build measurement foundations for research-driven optimizations.

Conduct primary equity research on financial companies across ASEAN markets, especially Singapore. Analyze market, economic, financial, and company trends; build valuation models; publish research reports; and communicate investment recommendations to institutional investors. Maintain relationships with clients, corporate entities, sales and trading teams, and internal stakeholders while responding to research requests and supporting investment initiatives.

The intern will develop trading strategies, back test models, analyze data, and collaborate with the research team to innovate and refine monetization systems.

Conduct research on efficient generative AI models for language, vision, and robotics. Design, optimize, and accelerate novel models; publish at leading conferences; collaborate with internal and external researchers; mentor interns; present at conferences; and transfer research into NVIDIA products.

Conduct and guide research in wireless and cellular security, including discovering novel attacks and developing detection and mitigation methods. Design experiments, perform theoretical development, review literature, supervise junior researchers and students, execute R&D projects, develop novel concepts, and contribute to research proposals, reports, and publications. Administrative duties may include safety and asset management.