Senior / Data Scientist, AI Programme (MOE)
Hands-on senior data scientist with Singapore MOE's AI Programme (under GovTech), building and evaluating LLM- and ML-powered education products. Day to day: prototyping AI workflows, designing evaluations and experiments, improving model behaviour via prompt development and error analysis, and mentoring colleagues using Python, SQL and statistics.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Singapore
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Data science
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Substantial experience in applied data science or machine learning with a track record of independently delivering work that informed or improved a product or service
- Hands-on experience building and evaluating AI applications, including LLM-based systems, and understanding of their capabilities, limitations and failure modes
- Strong Python programming skills and working proficiency in SQL
- Experience developing reusable, tested code and reproducible analyses using version control and code review
- Sound foundations in statistics and experimental design, including sampling, metric selection and uncertainty
- Experience translating product goals and subjective quality expectations into measurable criteria and actionable findings
- Ability to work through ambiguous problems, exercise sound technical judgement and collaborate with product, engineering and domain colleagues
- Clear communication skills with ability to mentor and provide technical guidance while remaining hands-on
Nice to have
- Retrieval-augmented generation, AI agents, tool-use workflows or multimodal AI applications
- Automated evaluation pipelines, production monitoring, AI safety or robustness testing
- Education products, human-AI interaction, or evaluating systems where quality depends on context and professional judgement
- Product experimentation and measuring improvements in user outcomes or productivity
- Taking AI prototypes into practical use in cloud environments
Full description
The Government Technology Agency (GovTech) is the lead agency driving Singapore’s Smart Nation initiatives and public sector digital transformation. As the Centre of Excellence for Infocomm Technology and Smart Systems (ICT & SS), GovTech develops the Singapore Government’s capabilities in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, Application Development, Smart City Technology, Digital Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity.
At GovTech, we offer you a purposeful career to make lives better. We empower our people to master their craft through continuous and robust learning and development opportunities all year round. Our GovTechies embody our Agile, Bold and Collaborative values to deliver impactful solutions.
GovTech aims to transform the delivery of Government digital services by taking an "outside-in" view, putting citizens and businesses at the heart of everything we do.
Play a part in Singapore’s vision to build a Smart Nation and embark on your meaningful journey to build tech for public good. Join us to advance our mission and shape your future with us today!
Learn more about GovTech at tech.gov.sg.
The AI Programme at Singapore’s Ministry of Education (MOE) develops AI products and shared capabilities to support teaching, learning and the work of schools. Our teams bring together product management, engineering, design and data science to identify useful applications, test them with users and improve them through evidence.
Our work spans personalised learning support, feedback and assessment, tools that help teachers plan and carry out their work, and applications that improve school operations. We also develop shared capabilities for AI evaluation, observability and governance, helping teams assess quality, understand failures and build dependable products.
We are looking for a hands-on Senior Data Scientist to build, evaluate and improve these applications. You will work closely with product teams and education-domain colleagues to translate user needs into practical AI solutions, improve their behaviour and establish whether they deliver meaningful benefits in real settings.
This is a senior individual-contributor role with substantial hands-on delivery. You will own selected workstreams, contribute reusable methods and tools, and provide technical guidance and mentoring to colleagues.
What you will be working on
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Work with product managers, engineers, designers and domain experts to understand user needs, identify suitable AI approaches, and define measurable outcomes and quality expectations
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Build and iterate on AI prototypes and workflows, using machine learning, large language models, retrieval and tool use where appropriate. Assess trade-offs across quality, cost, latency and practical implementation