Sr. Data Scientist (AI & ML)

Job Overview

The Senior Data Scientist will design and deploy machine-learning and generative AI systems that support decisions across talabat’s products and business. The role owns a defined problem area end to end and works closely with product managers, business teams, data scientists and machine-learning engineers. The work includes problem framing, data modelling, feature engineering, model development, deployment and production 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

• Turn unclear business problems into measurable data-science questions with objective success criteria.
• Build and deploy machine-learning and generative AI systems for product and operational use cases.
• Manage the model lifecycle, including data preparation, feature engineering, training, serving and production monitoring.
• Develop solutions using LLMs for data enrichment, content understanding and automated decision support.
• Provide rigorous analysis, automated reporting and evidence-based recommendations to business stakeholders.
• Collaborate with engineering and product colleagues to improve models and measure their real-world impact.

Requirements and Qualifications

• Strong practical experience in data science, machine learning or applied AI.
• Ability to work through the complete ML lifecycle, from analysis to deployment and monitoring.
• Knowledge of generative AI and large language models, including practical production use cases.
• Strong analytical thinking and the ability to communicate findings to technical and non-technical teams.
• A focus on model quality, measurable outcomes and responsible use of data.

Skills

Data science, machine learning, generative AI, LLMs, feature engineering, model training, deployment, monitoring, Python, analytics.

Employment Details

• Employer: talabat
• Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Employment Type: Full Time
• Function: AI & Data Science

Working Approach

Model quality and business value should be reviewed after deployment.