Engineering Manager – Applied AI
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Date posted
November 13, 2026
Hiring location
Dubai
Career level
Senior
Gender
Any
Description
Job Overview
The Applied AI leadership role focuses on developing machine-learning, generative AI and agent-based systems that create measurable value across talabat’s products and operations. The manager leads a team of data scientists while staying close to technical decisions, roadmap planning and production delivery. Work spans the complete AI lifecycle, from business problem framing and feature engineering to deployment, evaluation and ongoing monitoring.
The work is expected to produce practical outcomes rather than experiments without a business purpose. Strong delivery involves clear problem definition, sound data foundations, evaluation, monitoring and close collaboration with the teams that will use the resulting models.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, develop and retain data scientists while setting clear expectations for technical quality and ownership.
- Work with recruitment partners to attract machine-learning and data-science talent as the team grows.
- Translate open-ended business challenges into well-defined AI projects with measurable success criteria.
- Own the team roadmap and prioritize initiatives in data enrichment, automation, self-service AI and agentic product capabilities.
- Establish evaluation pipelines, observability, tools and infrastructure before deploying agent-based solutions.
- Coach team members on machine-learning practices, system design, production engineering and communication with stakeholders.
Requirements and Qualifications
- Strong hands-on knowledge of data science, machine learning or applied AI delivery.
- Experience leading technical teams and supporting the professional growth of individual contributors.
- Ability to guide the complete model lifecycle, including data preparation, training, deployment and production monitoring.
- Understanding of large language models, generative AI and agentic systems.
- Ability to connect technical choices to measurable business outcomes and communicate them to non-technical partners.
Skills
Applied AI, machine learning, generative AI, LLMs, agentic systems, model deployment, MLOps, technical leadership, roadmap planning.
Employment Details
- Employer: talabat
- Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Employment Type: Full Time
- Function: AI & Data Science
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