Singapore-based Principal NLP Scientist: LLMs & Production AI

Hudson Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Hudson Singapore is seeking a Principal NLP Scientist to lead hands-on NLP, LLM, and AI automation initiatives in a new global engineering setup in Singapore. You will design, research, and improve NLP capabilities for production business systems, focusing on NER, text classification, generation, semantic search, and information extraction.

The role requires 8+ years in ML/NLP, strong PyTorch and Transformers skills, and hands-on experience with RAG and model serving.

Qualifications

• PhD or Master's in CS/ML/AI/Computational Linguistics/Data Science.
• At least 8 years of professional experience in ML, AI, or NLP.
• At least 5 years building NLP models for production or near-production systems.
• Deep understanding of neural networks (RNN/CNN/Transformers) and attention mechanisms.
• Experience with NLP tasks such as NER, classification, text generation, semantic search, and information extraction.
• Strong experience with LLMs, prompting, fine-tuning, RAG, and safe production usage.
• Hands-on Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers.
• Experience with ONNX or model serving formats.
• Data preparation, labeling workflows, and model evaluation metrics.
• Experience with Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, SQL databases.
• Experience with Azure or AWS.
• Applicants MUST BE currently based in Singapore and have relevant work experience in Singapore.

Responsibilities

• Lead design of NLP solutions for production systems.
• Conduct applied research and develop NLP/LLM capabilities.
• Architect practical NLP workflows and data pipelines.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver impact.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

Transformers

NLP

LLM

RAG

Pandas

NumPy

SQL

Azure

AWS

Education

PhD or Masters in CS/ML/AI/CL/Data Science

Tools

Hugging Face

ONNX

Job description

Hudson Singapore is seeking a Principal NLP Scientist to lead hands-on NLP, LLM, and AI automation initiatives in a new global engineering setup in Singapore. You will design, research, and improve NLP capabilities for production business systems, focusing on NER, text classification, generation, semantic search, and information extraction.

The role requires 8+ years in ML/NLP, strong PyTorch and Transformers skills, and hands-on experience with RAG and model serving.