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. 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. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr