Research Engineer: Probabilistic ML & Time-Series

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 268,000 - 469,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing allowance

Medical insurance

Annual return flight

Visa application support

Job summary

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) invites applications for a fully funded Research Engineer position in Statistics, Machine Learning, or related fields in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

The role supports research projects in modern statistics and ML, with potential topics including probabilistic ML, uncertainty quantification, conformal prediction, time-series forecasting, and anomaly detection.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of machine learning or statistical modeling and experience implementing and evaluating models using relevant datasets.
• Experience with Git, Linux, testing, and writing clear, maintainable, and documented research code.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills, including excellent written and spoken English.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Implement and evaluate machine-learning and statistical methods across a range of research projects.
• Build reliable and reproducible workflows for data preprocessing, model training, evaluation, and visualization.
• Run experiments, establish baselines, analyze model performance, troubleshoot technical issues, and communicate findings to researchers.
• Develop maintainable research software using version control, code review, automated testing, documentation, and reproducible environments.
• Maintain shared research code and computing workflows and support efficient experimentation where needed.
• Collaborate with research-group members and academic and industry partners and contribute to technical reports, research papers, and demonstrations.

Skills

Python programming

Git

Linux

Testing

Documentation

English communication

Education

Master's degree in CS/Math/Stats/Data Science

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

TensorFlow

scikit-learn

Job description

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) invites applications for a fully funded Research Engineer position in Statistics, Machine Learning, or related fields in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

The role supports research projects in modern statistics and ML, with potential topics including probabilistic ML, uncertainty quantification, conformal prediction, time-series forecasting, and anomaly detection.