Data Scientist: AI & Generative ML for Impact

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS ASIA PACIFIC PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Asia Pacific PTE. LTD. is seeking a Data Scientist to develop AI-powered products across investment promotion, industry development, and corporate functions.

You will partner with stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions and deliver measurable outcomes using Generative AI and ML. Responsibilities include data wrangling, model maintenance, API/backend development, and frontend interfaces for AI-driven applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/ML/AI or related fields.
• Able to apply AI/ML techniques for regression and classification.
• Experience with Python data-science stack (pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn, XGBoost, NLTK, spaCy).
• Understanding of LLM concepts and architectures (RAG, embeddings).
• Experience with context engineering and prompt optimization strategies.
• Proficient in git and SQL; proficient in BI tools (Tableau, Qlik, Power BI, MicroStrategy).

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with business users to understand priorities and use cases; propose and develop solutions using data science/Generative AI to drive value.
• Researching AI/data-science techniques and identifying relevant ones for EDB to explore and adopt (Agentic, LLM, Predictive, Fraud/Anomaly Detection, Text Analytics, Customer Segmentation).
• Data wrangling & analysis - preprocessing, cleaning and feature engineering.
• Supporting daily operations and maintenance of deployed data science models and products, including Assistants on PAIR / AIBots.
• Developing backend APIs and services to support AI model deployment and integration.
• Building frontend interfaces and user experiences for AI-powered applications.
• Documenting changes to existing products.
• Reviewing and implementing fixes for reported security vulnerabilities.

Skills

AI/ML techniques

Python packages

LLM concepts

Context engineering

Prompt optimization

Git

SQL

BI tools

Dash/API development

Web frameworks

NLP tools

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Machine Learning/Data Science/AI or related disciplines

Tools

Docker/Kubernetes

FastAPI/Flask/Express.js

React/Vue.js/HTML/CSS/TypeScript

LangChain/LlamaIndex/Hugging Face Transformers

Pinecone/Chroma/FAISS

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Asia Pacific PTE. LTD. is seeking a Data Scientist to develop AI-powered products across investment promotion, industry development, and corporate functions.

You will partner with stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions and deliver measurable outcomes using Generative AI and ML. Responsibilities include data wrangling, model maintenance, API/backend development, and frontend interfaces for AI-driven applications.