Our client is a leading global quantitative hedge fund that is looking to hire an exceptional ML Data Scientist to join its growing Data Science team in Asia.
This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of cutting-edge AI and quantitative finance, developing production-grade machine learning solutions that support one of the world's most sophisticated systematic investment platforms. You'll collaborate with leading researchers and engineers while working with large-scale proprietary datasets to solve complex real-world problems.
Responsibilities:
- Research, develop and deploy innovative AI solutions that enhance the firm's data capabilities and support systematic investment processes.
- Build scalable machine learning models capable of extracting insights from large, complex and diverse datasets.
- Partner with researchers, engineers and business stakeholders to identify high-impact opportunities where AI can drive meaningful improvements.
- Design robust data and model workflows that take projects from early experimentation through to production deployment.
- Explore and apply state-of-the-art techniques across areas such as LLMs, generative AI, natural language processing and representation learning.
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies and research, identifying opportunities to incorporate new methodologies into existing platforms.
- Measure, monitor and continually improve model performance through rigorous experimentation and data-driven optimisation.
- Contribute to the evolution of the firm's AI infrastructure, helping to build scalable, reliable and production-ready machine learning systems.
Requirements:
- PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative discipline.
- 3+ years of industry experience in AI, Machine Learning, or Data Science.
- Strong publication record at leading conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, or ICLR.
- Excellent Python and SQL programming skills.
- Experience building predictive models using large-scale datasets.
- Quantitative finance experience is advantageous but not required.
What's on Offer:
- Join a world-leading quantitative hedge fund with significant investment in AI.
- Work alongside exceptional researchers and engineers on cutting-edge machine learning challenges.
- Access unique proprietary datasets and world-class computational resources.
- Market-leading compensation package.
- Opportunities available in Singapore or Hong Kong.
