TECHNICAL RESEARCH CONSULTANT (IDENTITY VERIFICATION)

About the role

We are looking for a Technical Research Consultant with a strong developer background to join the product team. You will explore new identity verification and biometric vendors, and build proof-of-concept solutions that show how each vendor could work within our Client’s platform. Your findings, demos, and recommendations will directly shape the product team’s decisions on which technologies to adopt. We expect a new team member to work independently and proactively: discover information on their own when documentation is incomplete, dig into unfamiliar APIs, and turn research into clear, well-argued conclusions. Strong communication skills are essential, since you will present results to the product team and work closely with US-based colleagues. The ideal candidate must move quickly from an identity-verification concept to evidence. Find the right providers and data sources, test them hands-on, document market and regulatory constraints, and give Product clear recommendations backed by working prototypes and traceable research.

The project offers a biometric-based identity verification and passwordless multi-factor authentication (MFA) platform with a privacy-by-design architecture centered around a private and permissioned distributed ledger. The platform generates a non-phishable multi-factor authentication credential for employees while giving customers a convenient passwordless option for strong authentication to prevent fraud. Because all personally identifiable information (PII) is public/private key encrypted and the user maintains sole possession and access to the private key without third-party intermediaries, PII is always stored and managed in compliance with data privacy mandates and is never exposed in the clear. The platform’s innovative architecture combines live biometrics, machine verification of government credentials, a portable digital identity wallet, a private, permissioned ledger, and verified reusable digital credentials. Combined, these capabilities eliminate the identity gap in conventional Single Sign-On (SSO) and MFA. They remove the compromise between security and convenience by reducing transaction friction while verifying identity at every access or service request. An immutable chain of custody provides tamper-evident digital identity and verified credentials for unmatched trust.

Responsibilities

• Research identity verification, eID, document verification, biometric and fraud-detection vendors, with a focus on regions where global providers have weak coverage (e.g., Southeast Asia).
• Integrate vendor APIs and SDKs in sandbox environments and build lightweight PoCs to show how each solution works, how hard it is to integrate and where it fails.
• Assess whether vendors are production-ready, including onboarding, approvals, licensing, geographic restrictions and commercial terms.
• Research country-specific identity ecosystems (e.g., Singpass and other national eIDs), plus the regulatory and privacy constraints that affect integration.
• Monitor vendor coverage, API changes and new document templates, and automate routine research where possible.
• Build vendor scorecards and recommend whether to integrate, partner or defer, backed by clear evidence.