Senior Data Scientist (AI & ML)

About the role

Talabat is seeking a senior data scientist to design and deliver innovative data‑centric solutions that drive product and business decisions. The role focuses on building production‑grade machine learning and generative AI systems, especially leveraging large language models.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement end‑to‑end machine learning and generative AI solutions for product and business use cases.
• Translate business problems into tractable analytics and machine‑learning tasks.
• Develop, deploy, and monitor data models, feature pipelines, and training workflows.
• Work with LLMs, NLP, deep learning, recommender systems, and state‑of‑the‑art ML frameworks.
• Apply MLOps principles from model serving to monitoring and engineering workflows.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, technology or a related discipline (post‑graduate qualification is a plus).
• More than 5 years of experience in data science, machine‑learning engineering, and generative AI, including production deployment.
• Practical knowledge of ML deployment and system design.
• Strong background in software engineering, statistics, experiments, data modeling and prediction.

Required skills

• Python and SQL.
• Scikit‑learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Transformers.
• Fine‑tuning large language models (LLMs).
• Airflow for pipeline orchestration.
• BigQuery and Google Cloud Platform.