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Head of AI Research / Machine Learning

People Profilers Pte Ltd

RemoteFull timeMid levelS$189k – S$283kPosted today
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About the role

Our client is a remote-first, globally distributed team that believes great people do their best work when given the freedom to work where and when they’re most productive. No fixed schedules, no office boundaries—just trust, ownership, and the flexibility to work from anywhere in the world. If you’re looking for the freedom to shape your work around your life while working with talented people across the globe, you’ll feel right at home here.

Our client is a technology company developing advanced AI-powered software products and is looking for a senior technical leader to drive its machine learning research and production AI capabilities.

Job Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the AI and machine learning research roadmap, covering areas such as reasoning, memory, planning and intelligent workflow execution.
  • Evaluate whether to develop new model architectures internally or adapt suitable open-source and commercial foundation models.
  • Develop robust model evaluation frameworks covering accuracy, usefulness, reliability, safety and behaviour in real-world environments.
  • Establish technical approaches for model alignment, safety controls and guardrails within production AI systems.
  • Research and evaluate advanced techniques including retrieval-augmented methods, mixture-of-experts, model distillation, multi-agent systems and multimodal models.
  • Partner closely with product, machine learning and application engineering teams to translate research capabilities into deployable features.
  • Guide key technical decisions involving model architecture, training, inference and production deployment.
  • Establish high technical standards for research quality, experimentation, evaluation and long-term machine learning system performance.

Job Requirements

  • Possess Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

  • Extensive hands-on experience developing, training or improving machine learning systems deployed in production environments.

  • Strong proficiency in Python and PyTorch and/or JAX, with experience working with GPU-based model training and inference.

  • Deep understanding of model behaviour, evaluation, failure modes, robustness and technical trade-offs in complex AI systems.

  • Strong hands-on technical orientation with the ability to make high-impact research and engineering decisions independently in ambiguous environments.

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Interested applicants kindly click on apply now or send your updated resume to ber;yn.lum@peopleprofilers.com

Contact No. : [+65 6950 9731](tel:+65 6950 9731)

Berlyn Lum Miao Yu

Registration Number: R1766577

EA License Number: 02C4944

People Profilers Pte Ltd, 20 Cecil St, #08-09, PLUS Building, Singapore 049705

http://www.peopleprofilers.com

Job Ref No: JOB-01031

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