Research Engineer - Statistics & Machine Learning Innovator

MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence); Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 290,000 - 402,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing allowance

Comprehensive health & life insurance

Annual return flight to home country

Relocation support for international-h

Full visa application support

Job summary

MBZUAI invites applications for a fully funded Research Engineer position in Statistics, Machine Learning, or a closely related field for 3–12 months, under the supervision of Prof. Souhaib Ben Taieb in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

The role supports research in modern statistics and ML, with competitive tax-free salary, housing allowance, medical insurance, return flight, and visa support. The lab collaborates with leading academic and industry partners, offering opportunities to contribute to probabilistic

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 workflows for data preprocessing, model training, evaluation, and visualization.
• Run experiments, establish baselines, analyze model performance, troubleshoot issues, and report findings.
• Develop maintainable research software using version control, testing, documentation, and reproducible environments.
• Maintain shared research code and computing workflows; collaborate with partners and contribute to reports and papers.
• Strong programming skills in Python.

Skills

Python programming

Machine learning

Statistical modeling

Git

Linux

Testing

Code documentation

English communication

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, or related

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

TensorFlow

scikit-learn

CUDA

Job description

MBZUAI invites applications for a fully funded Research Engineer position in Statistics, Machine Learning, or a closely related field for 3–12 months, under the supervision of Prof. Souhaib Ben Taieb in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

The role supports research in modern statistics and ML, with competitive tax-free salary, housing allowance, medical insurance, return flight, and visa support. The lab collaborates with leading academic and industry partners, offering opportunities to contribute to probabilistic