Senior Data Scientist
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.
- Locations
- Singapore
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
Our Culture
You will be co-creating our business solutions
We believe that your feedback allows us to create the best solutions as well as adjusted work culture. You will have a real impact on the growth of the company and the product we develop.
Experienced team
We aren’t your run-of-the-mill tech start-up. At Silent Eight, everyone is a leader in their own field with perspective and experience shared across teams and departments.
Development-centric
Because learning never ends, we empower our employees to invest in themselves. We provide a range of resources such as paid Development Days, in-house training, lunch-and-learns, etc. to make sure our employees are continuing to grow each day.
Team building events
We know that our success is only possible if we work together as a team. We are a group of passionate individuals united by a common mission. Therefore we like to meet together regularly to connect not just as coworkers, but as human beings, whether it’s at an offsite in Dubai or a weekly “Tea Time” to catch up.
100% remote work forever
We are not new to working remotely. In fact, we’ve been doing it since 2013 and we know how to make you feel supported, connected, and included. We believe that the freedom to choose where you work from is important to finding the journey that is right for you.
Don’t wait! Join our team today!
Silent Eight is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or other classification protected by applicable federal, state or local law.
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