Senior AI Team Lead: GenAI & ML Systems

Talabat Holding; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

talabat is seeking a Manager, Data Scientist - AI within the Applied AI Tribe to lead a team building ML and generative AI systems powering product and business decisions. You will own the roadmap, guide technical choices, and drive production deployments with strong oversight of data pipelines and model evaluation.

You will mentor data scientists, collaborate with product managers, and advance MLOps and observability practices to deliver measurable Net AI Value Delivered.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in ML/GenAI systems in production environments.
• Strong programming in Python; solid SQL and data engineering fundamentals.
• Experience leading or managing data science teams is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of data scientists building and shipping ML and AI systems.
• Own roadmap, delivery, and technical decisions for AI initiatives.
• Oversee end-to-end ML lifecycle: data pipelines, training, deployment, monitoring.
• Drive adoption of LLMs and agentic AI for product and business impact.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to quantify value and outcomes.

Skills

Machine learning

Generative AI

NLP

Deep learning

PyTorch

TensorFlow

LLM fine-tuning

SQL

Python

MLOps

Data pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, CS, or related

Postgraduate degree

Tools

OpenAI SDK

LangGraph

Hugging Face

BigQuery

Google Cloud Platform

Airflow

Job description

talabat is seeking a Manager, Data Scientist - AI within the Applied AI Tribe to lead a team building ML and generative AI systems powering product and business decisions. You will own the roadmap, guide technical choices, and drive production deployments with strong oversight of data pipelines and model evaluation.

You will mentor data scientists, collaborate with product managers, and advance MLOps and observability practices to deliver measurable Net AI Value Delivered.