Lead Data Scientist, AI Travel Assistant

Agoda Company Pte. Ltd.; Singapore; Presencial; SGD 180.000 - 260.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Agoda Company Pte. Ltd. in Singapore is seeking a Lead/Principal Data Scientist to own the AI Assistant's core intelligence, including intent understanding, multi-step trip planning, memory, and tool calls.

You will shape evaluation backbones with offline tests, LLM judgments, and A/B experiments, ensuring changes deliver measurable traveler value. The role targets senior DS/ML practitioners who can operate end-to-end across ML, product, and engineering, setting technical direction and mentoring

Formación

• Strong DS fundamentals, statistics, experimentation, and causal inference.
• Hands-on experience building LLM systems with RAG and tool use.
• Problem-solving mindset with comfort in open-ended problems.
• Deep DS/ML depth and product judgment are valued.

Responsabilidades

• Own the assistant's core intelligence: intent understanding, multi-step trip planning, memory, and tool calls.
• Build the evaluation backbone: offline evaluations, LLM-as-judge, A/B tests.
• Balance quality, latency, cost, and reliability with cross-functional teams.
• Ship ideas to production quickly and learn from usage.
• Raise the bar by setting technical direction and mentoring data scientists.

Conocimientos

DS fundamentals

LLM systems

Problem solving

Analytical thinking

Educación

Advanced degree in CS/Statistics/OR/Math

Herramientas

RAG

Tool use

Agent orchestration

Descripción del empleo

Agoda Company Pte. Ltd. in Singapore is seeking a Lead/Principal Data Scientist to own the AI Assistant's core intelligence, including intent understanding, multi-step trip planning, memory, and tool calls.

You will shape evaluation backbones with offline tests, LLM judgments, and A/B experiments, ensuring changes deliver measurable traveler value. The role targets senior DS/ML practitioners who can operate end-to-end across ML, product, and engineering, setting technical direction and mentoring