Principal NLP Scientist

Principal Computer Vision Scientist - Singapore

A global technology company is expanding its engineering organization and is seeking a Principal Computer Vision Scientist to lead the research, development, and deployment of advanced Computer Vision and AI/ML solutions. This is a senior technical leadership role for an experienced specialist who thrives at the intersection of research and real-world product development, transforming cutting-edge AI into scalable, production-ready applications.

Working closely with engineering, product, and business teams, you will drive the technical vision for computer vision initiatives while remaining hands-on with model development, experimentation, and deployment.

What You'll Do

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of advanced Computer Vision and Machine Learning solutions.
• Define model architectures, experimentation strategies, evaluation methodologies, and production readiness standards.
• Develop, train, fine-tune, and optimise models for object detection, image classification, semantic segmentation, OCR, visual search, feature matching, and image understanding.
• Own the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle, including data preparation, annotation strategy, model training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Build prototypes and proof-of-concepts to validate new technologies and product ideas.
• Analyse model performance, identify failure cases, and drive continuous improvements through data-driven experimentation.
• Partner with software engineers to integrate AI models into production applications and services.
• Establish best practices for MLOps, model versioning, experiment tracking, reproducibility, and deployment.
• Evaluate emerging research, open-source technologies, and AI frameworks for practical adoption.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across AI and Computer Vision initiatives.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering Leaders, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders to deliver production-ready AI capabilities.

What We're Looking For

• PhD in Computer Science, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 7+ years of hands-on industry experience in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, or Deep Learning.
• Strong expertise in Python and modern machine learning frameworks including PyTorch and/or TensorFlow.
• Experience with OpenCV, NumPy, Pandas, scikit-learn, and the wider Python AI ecosystem.
• Deep understanding of modern Computer Vision techniques including CNNs, Vision Transformers, YOLO, Mask R-CNN, CLIP, Segment Anything (SAM), and related architectures.
• Proven experience deploying AI/ML models into production environments.
• Strong knowledge of model optimisation, inference performance, scalability, latency, and reliability.
• Experience with REST APIs, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, model versioning, experiment tracking, and MLOps practices.
• Strong understanding of dataset creation, annotation workflows, data quality, and model evaluation methodologies.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working within Agile software development environments.

Nice to Have

• Postdoctoral or significant industry research experience in Computer Vision or AI.
• Publications, patents, or a strong applied research portfolio.
• Experience leading AI/ML technical strategy and mentoring engineering teams.
• Knowledge of edge AI technologies such as ONNX, TensorRT, OpenVINO, TensorFlow Lite, or CoreML.
• Experience with multimodal AI, vision-language models, generative AI, or large-scale image processing.
• Familiarity with cloud AI platforms and production ML monitoring.
• Experience within logistics, manufacturing, supply chain, warehouse automation, or enterprise technology environments.

What You'll Gain

• Opportunity to shape the future of AI and Computer Vision within a growing global engineering organisation.
• Work on challenging, production-scale AI solutions with real business impact.
• Collaborate with experienced software engineers, architects, and AI specialists.
• Ongoing professional development and exposure to cutting-edge AI technologies.
• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.

If you're passionate about advancing Computer Vision technologies and delivering production-ready AI solutions that solve complex real-world problems, we'd love to hear from you.

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