Data Scientist

About the job

About the Data Scientist role

We are looking for a highly skilled Data Scientist to design, build, and deploy advanced AI solutions that address complex business challenges. In this role, you will work closely with stakeholders to understand their needs, sharpen business use cases, and translate them into impactful data science projects. You will collaborate across product owners, engineering teams, research institutes, and industry partners throughout the product lifecycle – from concept and prototyping to operationalisation, deployment, and industry adoption.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Facilitate discussions with stakeholders to understand their business challenges, sharpen the business use cases and translate them into data science projects.
  • Work with product owners, engineering teams, and industry partners throughout the product development lifecycle from concept, design, prototyping, acceptance testing, data curation, delivery, operationalisation, industry proliferation, to product end-of-life.
  • Technical assessment on the maturity, viability, and suitability of AI research, technologies and trends that are relevant to the industry.
  • Present findings, solicit feedback and prioritise refinements to the analysis in close iteration with stakeholders while managing overall project timeline.
  • Participate in agile secure software development processes and best practices, documentation of user requirements and software codes during the software development lifecycle.
  • Transfer technology to industry partners.
  • Technical engagement and collaboration with research institutes and institutes of higher learning

Requirements:

  • Postgraduate or Ph.D. Background in engineering, computer engineering, computer science, mathematics, statistics or equivalent
  • Strong technical knowledge in AI, specifically in Computer Vision (CV), Natural Language Processing (NLP), recommendation system and/or Synthetic AI
  • Good understanding of the latest research and technologies in AI for production, including deployment to mobile handsets and IOT devices
  • Proficient in building machine learning models to identify, recognise patterns and make predictions
  • Strong coding experience in programming languages such as Python, C++
  • Hands-on experience with one or more deep learning frameworks, e.g., TensorFlow, Torch
  • Experience in model deployment
  • Experience in stakeholder management
  • Experience in agile project management