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In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.\n Get to Know the Team\nThe Fulfilment Tech Family builds the systems that power Grab's marketplaces across Southeast Asia. We design real-time, distributed systems and Machine Learning (ML) solutions that process hundreds of millions of requests each day. Our work drives supply allocation, pricing, and order matching for millions of users and driver-partners.Our mission is three-fold:\nDeliver products that work for our driver-partners\nMeet consumer demand, regardless of conditions\nBuild marketplaces that balance experience and cost for everyone involved\nWe are looking for a Senior Principal Data Scientist to lead our shift toward automated marketplace optimization. You'll advance how we use data and ML to automate pricing, dispatch, and supply management decisions.\nGet to Know the Role\nThis is a Senior Principal individual contributor role where you'll build the foundation for autonomous, learning-driven marketplace systems. You'll work at the intersection of reinforcement learning, large language models, and production systems that operate at scale.\nYour work centres on two areas:\n Reinforcement Learning (RL) Systems: You'll develop systems that jointly optimize pricing, dispatching, and supply repositioning. You'll build decision agents that handle multiple objectives and adapt when real-world conditions change.\nLLM-Based Behavioural Intelligence: You'll architect systems using fine-tuned language models to predict, explain, and simulate user decision-making at scale. These models will power the next generation of marketplace automation.\nYou'll serve as the technical lead for a small team, guiding both research direction and production implementation. You'll report to the Head of Data Science and work from Grab's One-North Singapore office.\nThe Critical Tasks You will Perform\nYou will:\nDesign and implement end-to-end RL systems that combine model-based RL, offline RL, simulation, and online learning into a unified training pipeline. This includes creating state representations and reward structures that balance short-term results with long-term outcomes.\nBuild latent world models and marketplace state representations that capture supply-demand interactions, location-based patterns, and behavioural signals from users and drivers.\nDevelop systems that optimize across multiple marketplace levers simultaneously-pricing, dispatching, and supply repositioning-to expand the set of achievable outcomes for the business.\nCreate policy evaluation frameworks and establish monitoring systems that allow safe deployment of new decision-making policies in production.\nFine-tune open-source large language models on domain-specific data to build capabilities for prediction, reasoning, and simulation within marketplace applications.\nDesign and implement training strategies for language models, including supervised fine-tuning, preference-based alignment, and iterative improvement methods.\nWork with data engineers and backend engineers to integrate RL and LLM systems into real-time production environments serving millions of users.\n What Essential Skills You Will Need\nYou have PhD in Computer Science, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, or related field with at least 10 years of experience - to lead complex technical initiatives spanning research and production systems.\nYou are proficient in RL fundamentals - including Markov Decision Processes, stochastic control, and reward design trade-offs. You'll apply these to build closed-loop systems that make sequential decisions in the marketplace.\nYou have experience building production ML/ RL systems with online learning or simulation-based optimization - to deploy models that learn and adapt in real-time environments.\n You have knowledge in world models and sequential modelling - including latent dynamic models (RNNs, transformers, state-space models) and representation learning for complex systems. You'll use these to model marketplace dynamics accurately.\n You have hands-on experience fine-tuning large language models in production - including supervised fine-tuning and at least one preference-based alignment method (RLHF, DPO, or GRPO). You'll apply parameter-efficient methods (LoRA, QLoRA, or PEFT) and understand their trade-offs in accuracy, memory, and cost.\nYou can design evaluation frameworks for generative models - including metrics for factual accuracy and reasoning quality. You'll use these to validate model outputs before deployment.\nYou have experience with distributed training frameworks - such as DeepSpeed, FSDP, or Megatron-LM. You'll use these to train large models efficiently across multiple GPUs or nodes.\n You are proficient in Python and ML frameworks (PyTorch or TensorFlow) - to implement models and integrate with production codebases.\nYou have experience with scalable computing platforms - such as Spark or Ray. You'll use these to process large datasets and distribute training workloads.\nYou can translate ambiguous business problems into concrete modelling tasks - to identify what can be solved with ML/RL and define the scope, data requirements, and success criteria.\n Life at Grab\nWe care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:\nWe have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.\nWith GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.\nCelebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave\nWe have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.\nBalancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours\nWhat We Stand For At Grab\nWe are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. 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