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Principal Machine Learning Scientist
ICT
Company shared salary
S$12,000–S$16,000/mo (S$144,000–S$192,000/yr)
Market rate
S$10,000–S$18,000/mo (S$120,000–S$216,000/yr)
Based on similar roles (title + domain + location).
About the Company
Our client is a leading product-led technology company building next-generation AI-powered platforms at scale, serving millions of users globally. They are heavily investing in AI, Search, and Personalization. We are hiring a Principal Machine Learning Scientist to lead their core AI initiatives.
About the Role
We are looking for a visionary Principal ML Scientist with deep expertise in Recommendation Systems, User Search, and AI Agentic Model Development. This is a high-impact, individual-contributor + tech leadership role where you will architect and own the AI strategy for discovery, search relevance, and autonomous agent experiences.
Responsibilities
- ● ve ambiguous, large-scale problems.
- ● What You Will Do
- ● Recommendations & Personalization
- ● Design, build and scale state-of-the-art recommendation and ranking systems (candidate generation, ranking, re-ranking)
- ● Drive personalization strategies to improve user engagement, retention, and conversion
- ● Work on large-scale user behavior modeling, collaborative filtering, deep learning based recommenders
- ● AI Agentic Systems
- ● Lead the design and development of Agentic AI models - autonomous agents capable of reasoning, planning, tool-use, and multi-step execution
- ● Build LLM-based agents, orchestration frameworks, memory, and evaluation systems for real-world applications
- ● Research and implement RAG, function calling, and agentic workflows at production scale
- ● User Search & Discovery
- ● Own and improve the end-to-end User Search stack - query understanding, retrieval, semantic search, ranking and relevance
- ● Apply LLMs, embeddings, and vector search to build next-gen intelligent search experiences
- ● Define and track search quality metrics and drive continuous improvements
- ● Leadership & Impact
- ● Act as a Principal Scientist and thought leader - mentor senior scientists and engineers
- ● Drive research to production - from prototyping to deployment on large-scale distributed systems
- ● Partner with stakeholders to translate business problems into ML solutions
- ● What You Bring
- ● PhD / Masters in Computer Science, AI/ML, Statistics or related field. PhD preferred.
Requirements
- ● Experience building evaluation frameworks for Agentic AI Experience in a B2C product company at scale
Benefits
- ● Principal-level ownership and influence on a product used by millions
- ● Opportunity to build Agentic AI from 0-to-1, not just incremental improvements
- ● Top-tier compensation, benefits, and research culture
- ● Note: We are hiring at various budgets and levels depending on experience - from Staff ML Scientist to Principal ML Scientist - compensation will be aligned accordingly
- ● Newbridge is a premier executive search firm that serves the leadership needs of some of the world's best-known multinationals, local blue chips and venture-back startups across Asia-Pacific. Headquartered in Singapore, Newbridge offers services in Executive Search, Board Consulting, and Leadership Strategy services.
- ● Newbridge Career link - https://newbridge.careers-page.com/
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