Staff/Lead LLM Data Scientist (Singapore based)

Agoda
Singapore
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningSkills: ["Problem-solving","Communication","Collaboration","Leadership"]

Senior data scientist leading end-to-end LLM systems in a high-scale travel platform. You’ll design, build, and own LLM-powered features within real booking flows, collaborate cross-functionally with product and engineering, and iterate production systems based on user feedback and metrics, delivering impactful ML-driven experiences at scale.

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Agoda
Agoda
4 months ago

Staff/Lead LLM Data Scientist (Singapore based)

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Job Summary

Senior data scientist leading end-to-end LLM systems in a high-scale travel platform. You’ll design, build, and own LLM-powered features within real booking flows, collaborate cross-functionally with product and engineering, and iterate production systems based on user feedback and metrics, delivering impactful ML-driven experiences at scale.
Location: Singapore
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own end-to-end LLM-based systems from user intent understanding to multi-step trip planning and invoking internal services for search, pricing, and booking.
  • •Turn open-ended product problems into concrete ML/LLM designs while balancing quality, latency, cost, and reliability in production.
  • •Drive cross-functional decisions by partnering with product, engineering, and leadership to shape product direction and user experience.
  • •Ship rapidly and iterate using production feedback to continuously improve system behavior at scale.
  • •Collaborate with data engineers and platform teams to ensure robust evaluation, monitoring, and governance of ML systems.

Key Requirements

  • •Strong hands-on data science experience including modeling, feature engineering, statistics, and experimentation.
  • •Experience building and operating production LLM systems (e.g., RAG, tool/agent orchestration, context/memory management) with emphasis on evaluation and iteration.
  • •Ability to translate open-ended product problems into concrete ML/LLM designs with careful trade-offs between quality, latency, cost, and reliability.
  • •Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with comfort operating in evolving requirements.
  • •Experience partnering with product, engineering, and leadership to drive cross-functional decisions and shipping end-to-end ML solutions.
Experience:AIMLLLMNLP
Skills:Problem-solvingCommunicationCollaborationLeadership
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonLLMRAGTool orchestrationMemory managementEvaluationSQL

Eligibility

Visa:H1B

Company Brief

Agoda
Agoda operates a global online travel booking platform offering hotels, vacation rentals, flights, and other travel services. It provides price comparison, deals, and booking management for leisure and business travelers worldwide.
Industry: TravelTech
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Singapore, Singapore
Founded: 2005
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