Senior Data Scientist

Silent Eight Pte. Ltd.; Singapore; Remote; SGD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A RegTech firm in Singapore is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to lead R&D initiatives in AI and machine learning. Responsibilities include mentoring peers, engaging with customers, and ensuring successful project delivery. The ideal candidate has over 6 years of experience, modern NLP expertise, and strong communication skills. This role offers a flexible working environment and the opportunity to impact financial crime prevention.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on experience delivering data science projects.
• Proven expertise with LLMs and modern NLP frameworks.
• Strong foundation in anomaly detection and unstructured data workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex R&D initiatives in LLMs, NLP, and machine learning.
• Mentor and guide peers in data science best practices.
• Engage with customers to co-design use cases and metrics.

Skills

Expertise with LLMs

Python

Data Science

Machine Learning

Stakeholder Management

SQL

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Data Science or related field

Master or PhD in Data Science or related field

Tools

LangChain

Docker

Git

BigQuery

Job description

At Silent Eight, we develop our own AI-based products to combat financial crimes that enable things like money laundering, the financing of terrorism, and systemic corruption. We’re a leading RegTech firm working with large international financial institutions such as Standard Chartered Bank and HSBC. Join us and help make the world a safer place!

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will play a dual role: technical leader and strategic partner to customers and internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex R&D initiatives: drive research and innovation in LLMs, NLP, machine learning, and graph analytics, turning advanced techniques into production-grade solutions.
• Own the full data science lifecycle: from discovery, framing, and exploration to deployment, customer delivery, and long-term monitoring.
• Shape ambiguous challenges into well-defined problem statements and design practical, state-of-the-art solutions aligned with business and regulatory needs.
• Engage directly with customers and stakeholders: collaborate to co-design use cases, set success metrics, and ensure solutions are adopted, measurable, and impactful.
• Mentor and guide peers: elevate technical excellence, foster knowledge-sharing, and set best practices for experimentation, testing, and deployment.
• Prototype rapidly: explore new ideas and validate hypotheses quickly, while balancing innovation with scalability and maintainability.
• Ensure production success: design, implement, and optimize pipelines for data integration, validation, monitoring, and retraining to sustain long-term model performance.
• Communicate effectively: distill technical complexity into compelling business insights, helping stakeholders make informed decisions.
• Champion excellence in execution: enforce best practices in MLOps, DataOps, and software engineering to deliver reproducible, maintainable, and scalable solutions.
• Continuously improve tooling and processes that accelerate delivery, experimentation, and collaboration across the data science function.

Requirements

• Based in Singapore (remote-first team; flexible working environment).
• Bachelor’s degree, Master or PhD in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, or related field.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience delivering data science projects from research to production, ideally in mission-critical domains.
• Proven expertise with LLMs and modern NLP frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI APIs, HuggingFace, etc.).
• Strong foundation in machine learning, graph analytics, anomaly detection, and unstructured data workflows.
• Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL with a track record of writing clean, modular, testable, and production-ready code.
• Experience with large-scale data platforms (e.g., PySpark, BigQuery) and scalable ML deployments.
• Solid knowledge of MLOps and DataOps, including CI/CD, monitoring, retraining, and reproducibility.
• Comfortable in Linux, Git, Docker, and modern collaboration workflows.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills: able to translate technical insights into business outcomes and influence at all levels.
• Proven ability to drive measurable impact: balancing state-of-the-art research with practical, customer-driven implementation.
• A mindset of ownership, flexibility, and resilience: you adapt quickly, handle ambiguity, and are committed to delivering results.