Senior AI Data Scientist: Production ML & GenAI Innovator

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Etihad Airways, based in Abu Dhabi, seeks an experienced Data Scientist AI to design, develop and deploy ML/AI solutions that transform business processes and unlock data-driven insights. You will drive production-grade generative AI efforts, including LLMs, RAG, and agentic applications, integrated with enterprise systems.

You will collaborate with business and technology teams to translate requirements into scalable AI products, establish governance, and ensure secure, cost-efficient solutions

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, AI, Mathematics, Statistics, or related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in Data Science, ML, or AI, including 2+ years delivering production-grade Generative AI solutions.
• Strong Python skills with hands-on experience in ML frameworks such as Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.
• Experience building and deploying LLM, RAG, and agentic AI solutions using platforms such as Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, LangChain, or Semantic Kernel.
• Solid understanding of ML, statistical modelling, predictive analytics, and AI evaluation practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy, and monitor ML and AI solutions addressing business-critical challenges.
• Translate business requirements into data science and AI use cases, defining success measures and evaluation criteria.
• Analyze large datasets to generate actionable insights, predictive models, and decision-support solutions.
• Develop and optimize ML models through feature engineering, validation, testing, and performance tuning.
• Build and deploy LLM-powered, retrieval-augmented, and agentic AI applications for automation and knowledge management.
• Design document intelligence, search, and information retrieval solutions using structured and unstructured enterprise data.
• Establish evaluation frameworks, monitoring, observability, and governance controls for quality and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver scalable, secure, production-ready AI applications integrated with enterprise platforms.
• Lead discovery workshops, process assessments, and stakeholder engagements to identify AI opportunities.
• Communicate findings, recommendations, and model outcomes through storytelling, visualization, and executive presentations.
• Promote best practices in ML, AI engineering, responsible AI, and data governance.
• Stay current with trends in AI, ML, generative AI, and advanced analytics.

Skills

Python

ML frameworks

LLM/RAG

Azure OpenAI

Cloud deployment

Data visualization

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Scikit-learn

TensorFlow

PyTorch

LangChain

Semantic Kernel

Azure

Job description

Etihad Airways, based in Abu Dhabi, seeks an experienced Data Scientist AI to design, develop and deploy ML/AI solutions that transform business processes and unlock data-driven insights. You will drive production-grade generative AI efforts, including LLMs, RAG, and agentic applications, integrated with enterprise systems.

You will collaborate with business and technology teams to translate requirements into scalable AI products, establish governance, and ensure secure, cost-efficient solutions