About the role
This Senior Data Scientist role at Singapore Airlines' AI Center-of-Excellence focuses on researching and developing advanced machine learning algorithms, including generative AI, NLP, and computer vision. The position involves technical leadership of data squads, strategic oversight of end-to-end AI processes, and the deployment of scalable models within cloud and GPU-compute environments.
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Key Responsibilities
- Member of the in-house AI Center-of-Excellence team that works on challenging problems in advanced AI including areas on generative multimodal AI, autonomous agent, NLP, computer vision, recommender system, mathematical optimization, game theory, and experimental design.
- Research and develop advanced machine learning algorithms to meet complex product requirements.
- Defining hypotheses, executing necessary tests and experiments; evaluating, tuning and optimizing algorithms and methods.
- Develop with an eye towards cloud implementation ease, scalability, and robustness in a live customer facing production environment.
- Provide technical direction and guidance to a small and highly skilled team of junior and senior data scientists embedded in Kanban data squads.
- Serve as a go-to technical expert in your area of AI expertise.
- Work closely with business stakeholders to create impactful and intelligent features/products.
- Collaborate with other team members including data scientists, data engineers and data strategists.
- Strategic ownership of all critical end-to-end AI processes.
- Administer/maintain performant cloud and on-premises GPU compute resources that train large ML models and provide inference API microservices in production.
Requirements
- PhD degree related to computer science, machine learning or other AI disciplines is required (consideration given to exceptional candidates without advanced degrees).
- Demonstrated intellectual firepower as a rapid problem-solver and tech lead.
- Advanced programming skills in Python.
- Strong technical skills in algorithm design/analysis, data structure and SQL.
- At least intermediate-level mastery of functional/object-oriented software development using modern programming languages such as Scala, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java or C# is a must.
- Hands-on proficiency in the use of workflow/map-reduce and stream processing systems such as Spark and Kafka for big-data processing.
- 3 or more years of relevant industry experience as a hands-on technical expert in shallow and deep machine learning.
- Experience in the use of recent proprietary/open-source LLM APIs such as OpenAI GPT-4, Anthropic Claude 2, Google PaLM 2, or Meta LLaMA 2.
- Software development skills involving multi-agents and prompt engineering using LLM application/data frameworks such as LlamaIndex and LangChain.
- Highly conversant with GPU-accelerated deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow.
- Demonstrated ability in rapidly adapting, training and deploying state-of-the-art AI models or services in production based on the latest published research papers and open-source code.
- Familiarity of Bayesian statistics/inference and Bayesian/causal networks for probabilistic reasoning.
- Significant hands-on experience of AWS, Azure, GCP or other public cloud environment.
- Excellent mentoring, interpersonal and communication skills for working with both technical staff and non-technical business users.