Career Opportunities

Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board (SEAB) is a statutory board with the mission to provide quality educational assessment and research services to our customers in Singapore, and other parts of the world. We are looking for team players who enjoy working in a dynamic and creative work environment. We invite you to join our team for a rewarding and challenging career.

We offer workshops and consultancy services to equip Education Professionals with specialised knowledge and skills in educational assessment. We look forward to working with you to continue achieving excellence in assessment services.

If you are interested, please refer to Careers@Gov for further information.

RESEARCH OFFICER (DATA SCIENCE), ASSESSMENT RESEARCH - 2 YEAR CONTRACT

Job Responsibilities

Successful applicant will play an active role in handling, analysing and mining data to provide meaning analysis and visualisation for decision making. The key responsibilities include:

  • Analyse large amount of data for trends and patterns, and build predictive models and machine learning algorithms

  • Apply sound methodologies in data science, statistical analysis and data mining

  • Perform data visualisation to derive insights and value-add to decision making

  • Develop automated marking models for different subjects with constructed responses ranging from answers that are one sentence in length to complex answers requiring an essay or analysis

Job Requirements

  • Tertiary Qualification in Data Science, or Computer Science, or Statistics, with a minimum of 2 to 3 yearsā€™ experience in manipulating data sets, building statistical models and hands-on experience in machine learning applications

  • Candidates with 0 to 1 year of working experience can be considered

  • Strong in programming experience and proficient in Python/R/C++

  • Possess knowledge of a variety of machine learning techniques, such as clustering, recommender systems, Natural Language Processing, Deep learning etc., and their real-world application

  • Possess knowledge of advanced statistical techniques and concepts, such as regression, properties of distributions, statistical tests and proper usage, etc.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

If you are interested in any of the above position, please submit your application with your educational certificates to Careers@Gov.