Data Scientist/Senior Data Scientist, xData

What The Role Is

At HTX, our vision is to exponentially impact Singapore's safety and security, ensuring a safer and more resilient future for all. Our mission drives us towards force multiplying our Home Team through scientific and technological breakthroughs, and secure Singapore’s future by empowering our frontlines and enhancing public safety. Joining HTX means becoming part of a dynamic team committed to these critical goals, where your work as a Data Scientist will directly contribute to these efforts. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to leverage data-driven insights to support decision-making, develop innovative solutions, and play a pivotal role in safeguarding our nation. If you're passionate about making an impact that truly matters, HTX is the place for you.

What You Will Be Working On

The job-holder is expected to collaborate with various teams (within HTX and across Home Teams) and is responsible to:

• Define new opportunities for Home Team impact through identifying meaningful insights from exploratory data analysis.
• Design and conduct data science experiments to test hypotheses and validate model results, ensuring rigorous methodology and reproducibility.
• Conduct data pre-processing for feature engineering, build machine learning model pipelines and improve model performance.
• Implement workflows for monitoring model drift and retraining.
• Interacts with product teams to identify questions, opportunities and challenges for product impact.
  
  
  

What We Are Looking For

• Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in STEM disciplines.
• Applicants with system architecture design and product deployment experience will be considered for more senior positions.
• Strong understanding in one or more of the following areas:
• Language AI – Spoken
  
  
  

 Multilingual

 Speech-to-Text / Text-to-Speech / Speech-to-Speech

 Speech deep-fake detection

• Language AI – Written
  
  
  

 Multimodal

 Document understanding and retrieval / RAG systems

 Edge Computing

• Simulation
  
  
  

 Digital Twin

 Modelling and Simulation tools

• Optimisation
  
  
  

 Mathematical programming

 Constraint programming

• Link Analysis
  
  
  

 Network/Graph analysis

 Predictive modelling

All new hires are appointed on a two-year contract in the first instance and will be assessed and considered for permanent tenure over time, based on performance.

As part of the shortlisting process for this role, you may be required to complete a medical declaration and/or undergo further assessment.

All applicants will be updated on the status of their applications within 4 weeks upon closing of the advertisement.