Senior AI/ML Scientist — FinTech, LLMs & Production

mexdigital; Dubai; On-site; AED 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

MultiBank Group in Dubai is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join the AI/ML team, focusing on production-grade solutions within a fintech environment. You will lead end-to-end model development and collaborate with data engineers, software engineers, and business teams.

Ideal candidates bring 5–10 years of hands-on ML experience, expertise in LLMs and multimodal systems, plus strong mathematics, Python skills, and a track record delivering scalable pipelines in enterprise settings.

Qualifications

• 5 to 10 years of hands-on experience in classification, detection, and segmentation.
• Proven track record deploying end-to-end ML pipelines in enterprise contexts.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM applications, including GPT, Llama, Falcon, Claude.
• Experience designing agentic AI systems including task-oriented agents and autonomous reasoning.
• Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams and communicating technical outcomes to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong foundation in applied mathematics, probability, and statistics.
• Advanced Python programming for production-ready code.
• Knowledge of CNNs, Transformers, Diffusion models, Graph Neural Networks.
• Proficiency in prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks for LLM-based systems.
• Experience in fintech sector is a strong advantage.
• Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in CS/Applied Math/Statistics or equivalent industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and evaluate data-driven algorithms across classification, detection, segmentation, regression, and anomaly detection.
• Prototype and assess LLM-based and multimodal systems for document understanding and retrieval.
• Design and implement agentic AI systems including task-oriented agents and autonomous reasoning.
• Own the full ML lifecycle from data collection to deployment and maintenance.
• Contribute to solution architecture and collaborate with data/software engineers and domain experts.
• Establish robust monitoring frameworks to evaluate AI solution performance post-deployment.
• Stay current with AI research and mentor junior data scientists.

Skills

Machine Learning

Python

Mathematics & Statistics

LLM & AI systems

MLOps

Communication with stakeholders

Production ML pipelines

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in CS/Applied Math/Statistics

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Scikit-learn

XGBoost

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Hugging Face

OpenAI/Anthropic APIs

ClearML

MLflow

Docker

Job description

MultiBank Group in Dubai is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join the AI/ML team, focusing on production-grade solutions within a fintech environment. You will lead end-to-end model development and collaborate with data engineers, software engineers, and business teams.

Ideal candidates bring 5–10 years of hands-on ML experience, expertise in LLMs and multimodal systems, plus strong mathematics, Python skills, and a track record delivering scalable pipelines in enterprise settings.