Senior Data Scientist, Multimodal AI | Flexible Work

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

Benefits offered by this job

Total rewards benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Wellness programmes

Job summary

GovTech Singapore is seeking a Lead/Senior Data Scientist (Multimodal AI) to drive exploration and applied AI for government use cases. You will translate frontier AI capabilities into practical outcomes for agencies, building prototypes and evaluation benchmarks across vision, audio, and document modalities.

You will work with cloud architectures on GCP/AWS, manage prototyping platforms, and engage with agencies to turn research into deployable solutions that matter in public sector digital

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, AI/ML, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years applied ML/data science experience with depth in at least one non-text modality (vision, video, audio, or generative).
• Strong understanding of ML fundamentals: training, evaluation, design, sampling, metrics.

Responsibilities

• Experiment with state-of-the-art multimodal models and evaluate applicability to government use cases.
• Design, build, and run evaluations and benchmarks for AI models on real-world tasks.
• Build prototypes for agency engagements spanning smart city video analytics, document intelligence, generative media, and content authentication.
• Stay current with applied AI developments and translate research to practical government applications.
• Support development of multimodal AI showcase and prototyping platforms; advise on deployment considerations.

Skills

Multimodal AI

Vision & Audio Modality

Model Evaluation

GPU/VRAM Management

Cloud (GCP/AWS)

Prototyping

Communication

Team Leadership

Education

Degree in Computer Science/AI/ML

Tools

GCP

AWS

Python

Job description

GovTech Singapore is seeking a Lead/Senior Data Scientist (Multimodal AI) to drive exploration and applied AI for government use cases. You will translate frontier AI capabilities into practical outcomes for agencies, building prototypes and evaluation benchmarks across vision, audio, and document modalities.

You will work with cloud architectures on GCP/AWS, manage prototyping platforms, and engage with agencies to turn research into deployable solutions that matter in public sector digital