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# Staff/Lead LLM Data Scientist (Singapore based) at Agoda

- **Company:** Agoda
- **Location:** Singapore
- **Posted:** 2023-09-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/agoda/jobs/5393397

## Job description

## About Agoda

At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world.

Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide.

No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us.

Get to Know Our Team

Agoda, part of Booking Holdings, operates at the cutting edge of tech innovation. Work and build LLM-powered features that enable users to seamlessly book flights, hotels, and activities in an all-in-one experience.

Build solutions operating directly in real booking flows at Agoda scale. You’ll have real ownership over how the system is designed, built, and evolved, with the freedom to make meaningful technical and product decisions from day one.

This role is ideal for senior Data Scientists or ML practitioners who enjoy owning complex systems end-to-end and working at the intersection of ML, product, and engineering.

## What You'll Do

- Own end-to-end LLM systems: Design, build, and own LLM-based systems, from understanding user intent to planning multi-step trips and invoking internal systems to search, price, and book.
- Turn ambiguity into production solutions: Translate open-ended product problems into concrete ML and LLM designs, balancing quality, latency, cost, and reliability in a real-world environment.
- Drive cross-functional decisions: Partner closely with product, engineering, and leadership to make informed trade-offs that directly shape the product and user experience.
- Iterate with real-world feedback: Ship quickly, learn from production usage, and continuously improve system behavior at scale.

## What We're Looking For

- Technical depth: Strong hands-on Data Science experience, including modeling, feature engineering, statistics, and experimentation.
- LLM systems and evaluation: Experience building and operating production LLM systems (e.g., RAG, tool/agent orchestration, context and memory management), with a strong focus on evaluation, testing, and iteration — or the ability to ramp up quickly in parts of this space.
- Problem-solving mindset: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with comfort operating in open-ended problem spaces where requirements evolve.

## Why This Role

- Meaningful user impact: Help millions of travelers make better, more confident decisions for trips that matter to them.
- High ownership, high impact: Your work will directly shape a system used in real booking decisions — not demos or prototypes.
- Direct influence: Play a key role in both implementation and product direction.
- Competitive compensation: Flexible leveling with compensation aligned to experience and impact.

If you’re excited about building real-world AI products at scale and owning systems that directly impact millions of travelers, we’d love to hear from you

We welcome both local and international applications for this role. Full visa sponsorship and relocation assistance available for eligible candidates.

Please review our Hiring Process Guidelines before your interview — click [here](https://careersatagoda.com/interview/)to learn how interviewing at Agoda works.

Discover more about working at Agoda

- Agoda Careers [https://careersatagoda.com](https://careersatagoda.com/)
- Facebook https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda
- YouTube https://www.youtube.com/agodalife

## Equal Opportunity Employer

At Agoda, we pride ourselves on being a company represented by people of all different backgrounds and orientations. We prioritize attracting diverse talent and cultivating an inclusive environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. Employment at Agoda is based solely on a person’s merit and qualifications. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, age, race, color, national origin, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other legally protected characteristics.

We will keep your application on file so that we can consider you for future vacancies and you can always ask to have your details removed from the file. For more details please read our [privacy policy](https://careersatagoda.com/privacy-statement).

Disclaimer

We do not accept any terms or conditions, nor do we recognize any agency’s representation of a candidate, from unsolicited third-party or agency submissions. If we receive unsolicited or speculative CVs, we reserve the right to contact and hire the candidate directly without any obligation to pay a recruitment fee.

## About Agoda

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Agoda is a digital travel platform that helps travelers find great value deals on hotels, flights, and activities worldwide.
- **Entity Type**: Public (subsidiary of Booking Holdings Inc., NASDAQ: BKNG)
- **Headquarters**: Singapore
- **Founded**: 2005
- **Founders**: Robert Rosenstein and Michael Kenny

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Online travel and accommodation booking
- Target customers: B2C (leisure and business travelers globally)
- Mission/purpose: “Bridging the world through travel” – making travel easier, more affordable, and rewarding for everyone.

## Products & Services
- **[Agoda.com / Agoda mobile app]**: Online travel agency (OTA) offering booking for hotels, homes, villas, flights, and activities. Available in 39 languages with 24/7 customer support.
- **[Agoda Flights]**: Flight booking service launched in 2010.
- **[Agoda Easy Cancel / Hygiene Plus]**: Products introduced during the pandemic to offer flexible cancellation and enhanced cleanliness information.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed separately; parent company Booking Holdings has a market cap of approximately $140+ billion (as of mid-2025). Agoda is a key growth engine within the group.
- **Key Metric**: Over 7,000 employees; processes 1 trillion price checks daily; 2B+ user interactions captured daily; 12 PB of data processed monthly.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Wholly owned by Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG). Partnerships with over 6 million hotels and holiday properties globally.
- **Growth Signals**: Expanded to 27 markets; launched new products during COVID-19 (ASQ, Go Local, Easy Cancel); continues to hire aggressively across engineering, product, and analytics roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scale & Data**: Access to Booking Holdings’ global network and massive data pipeline (12 PB/month, 1 trillion price checks/day) enables real-time pricing optimization and personalization.
- **Tech-First Culture**: Data-driven experimentation (1,000+ live experiments at any time), heavy use of GenAI, and a strong engineering focus.
- **Asia Home Base**: Deep roots in Asia-Pacific with a large office in Bangkok, giving local market insights and cost advantages.
- **Parent Support**: Backed by one of the world’s largest online travel companies, providing financial stability and cross-selling opportunities.

## Strategic Focus
- **Growth through technology**: Continued investment in AI, machine learning, and experimentation to improve search, pricing, and user experience.
- **Expanding product offerings**: Growing beyond accommodation into flights, activities, and domestic travel options.
- **Sustainability**: Integrating sustainability initiatives into operations and offerings.
- **Talent acquisition**: Actively hiring across multiple functions (engineering, product, data, marketing) to support global expansion.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “data-driven to the core” with a focus on experimentation, ownership, and direct respect. Inclusive environment with 90+ nationalities represented.
- **Flexibility**: Hybrid workplace balancing in-office and work-from-home days; employees can work from anywhere for up to 30 calendar days per year.
- **Benefits**: Competitive perks, flexible benefits, relocation support for key roles, and recognition as an award-winning workplace (Fortune World’s Most Admired Companies 2025, TIME/Statista World’s Best Companies 2023, Forbes World’s Top Companies for Women 2023).
- **Engineering & Analytics**: Strong emphasis on tech – 1,000+ live experiments, 12 PB data/month, and a “scientist” mindset across teams. Opportunities to work on massive-scale systems.
- **Community**: Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) for belonging and inclusion; lively social events like AgodaFest.

## Sources
1. [agoda.com](https://www.agoda.com/about-agoda/)
2. [careersatagoda.com](https://careersatagoda.com/our-culture/)
3. [careersatagoda.com](https://careersatagoda.com/)
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/agoda)
5. [linkedin.com](https://au.linkedin.com/company/agoda)

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