Senior Data Scientist, AI for Education — Flexible

GovTech Singapore; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leave benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Wellness programmes

Job summary

GovTech Singapore is seeking a hands-on Senior Data Scientist to build, evaluate and improve AI-powered applications for public sector use. You will partner with product teams and education-domain colleagues to translate user needs into practical AI solutions and assess their impact in real settings.

This senior IC role involves delivering selected workstreams, mentoring colleagues, and contributing reusable methods and tools.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in applied data science or machine learning with product impact.
• Hands-on experience building and evaluating AI applications including LLM-based systems.
• Strong Python programming and SQL proficiency with reproducible analyses.

Responsibilities

• Work with product teams to translate user needs into AI solutions.
• Build and evaluate AI prototypes and workflows using ML, LLMs, retrieval, and tool use.
• Improve AI behaviour via prompt development, experiments and error analysis.
• Design evaluations with datasets and test cases in collaboration with domain experts.
• Combine human and automated evaluation methods to measure quality.
• Develop reusable evaluation tools and versioned datasets with engineers.

Skills

Python

SQL

LLM

AI prototyping

Experiment design

Tools

Git

Job description

GovTech Singapore is seeking a hands-on Senior Data Scientist to build, evaluate and improve AI-powered applications for public sector use. You will partner with product teams and education-domain colleagues to translate user needs into practical AI solutions and assess their impact in real settings.

This senior IC role involves delivering selected workstreams, mentoring colleagues, and contributing reusable methods and tools.