Data Scientist - AI Transformation Specialist

beBeeArtificial Intelligence; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Dubai is seeking skilled professionals for AI transformation projects within their Data Science team. The role involves building AI models, conducting exploratory analyses on user behavior, and leveraging data to optimize products and user experiences. Ideal candidates should have extensive experience in data mining, machine learning, and strong programming skills, specifically in Python and SQL. The organization promotes a collaborative work environment with flexible arrangements, healthcare benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Healthcare benefits

Fitness reimbursements

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• 5-6 years of experience in data-related fields.
• Solid experience with Deep Learning techniques.
• 1-2 years industrial experience in personalization, recommendation, or search.

Responsibilities

• Build AI models to optimize user experiences.
• Drive exploratory analysis to understand user behavior.
• Implement scalable machine learning algorithms.

Skills

Data mining

Predictive modeling

Machine learning

Problem-solving skills

Strong coding skills

AB testing

Communication skills

Education

Advanced degree in a quantitative discipline (Physics, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering or Computer Science)

Tools

Python

SQL

Spark

Hive

Tableau

MicroStrategy

Job description

Unlock Your Potential in AI Transformation

Careem is revolutionizing the Everything App for the Middle East, making it easier to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Our purpose is to simplify and improve lives by building an awesome organisation that inspires. Since its inception, Careem has created earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of over 70 million customers, and built a platform for the region's best talent to thrive and for entrepreneurs to scale their businesses.

About the team

The Data Science team's mission is to drive competitive value from data at scale through building AI models to optimize user experiences, decision making, operational efficiencies, and lead the region's AI ecosystem. As one of the tech leaders in this team, you will be at the forefront of fulfilling this mission. You will be working with top data science talent while innovating on our user experience using GenAI.

Be part of a groundbreaking AI transformation for the Careem app from personalization perspective. Build a long‑term vision on how we can rethink customer acquisition and engagement strategies leveraging data in our decision making. Drive exploratory analysis to understand the ecosystem, user behavior; identifying new levers to help move metrics and build models of user behaviors for analysis and product enhancements. Shape and influence data/ML models and instrumentation to optimize the product experience and generate insights on new areas of opportunity and new products. Provide product leadership by sharing data‑based recommendations to communicate the state of business, root cause of change in metrics and experimentation results influencing product and business decisions. Implement scalable machine learning algorithms that will be used in production on big data. Embark on exploratory data analysis projects to achieve a better understanding of phenomena as well as to discover untapped areas of growth and optimization. Answer complex analytic questions from big data sets to help shape products and services in a better way. Help define and track key metrics for specific projects. Design and run randomized controlled experiments, analyze the resulting data and communicate results with other teams. You will continually investigate new data processing technologies and seek to ensure that we follow industry best practices. Build and deploy retrieval augmented generation systems and other applications of large language models.

What We're Looking For

We are seeking highly skilled professionals with extensive experience in data mining, predictive modeling, time series analysis, machine learning, Big Data methodologies, data transformation and cleaning, both structured and unstructured data.

• At least 5-6 years of experience in data‑related fields.
• Advanced degree in a quantitative discipline such as Physics, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering or Computer Science.
• Solid experience with Deep Learning techniques (e.g., attention, retrieval models, etc.).
• 1-2 years industrial experience in personalization, recommendation or search.
• Strong problem‑solving and coding skills.
• Solid knowledge of AB testing, classic ML and DL.
• Solid understanding of recommendations, ranking and retrieval.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, Spark, Hive.
• Strong communication skills.
• Experience with database technologies (Hadoop, BigQuery, Amazon EMR, Hive, Oracle, SAP, DB2, Teradata, MS SQL Server, MySQL).
• Experience with business intelligence and visualisation tools (Tableau, MicroStrategy, ChartIO, Qlik).
• Geospatial data processing skills is a plus.

Your Benefits

We offer colleagues the opportunity to drive impact in the region while they learn and grow. As a full‑time colleague, you will:

• Work and learn from great minds by joining a community of inspiring colleagues.
• Put your passion to work in a purposeful organization dedicated to creating impact in a region with untapped potential.
• Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day.
• Enjoy flexible working arrangements, including 4 days a week in office and 3 days from home.
• Access healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes.