Senior Data Scientist II

Careem Networks FZ LLC; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the region is seeking a Data Scientist to lead AI model building for enhancing user experiences. You'll work on a variety of data-driven projects to optimize product features and drive engagement metrics, collaborating with top talent in a fast-paced environment. Flexible work arrangements and a strong focus on professional growth make this an exciting opportunity.

Benefits

Unlimited vacation days

Healthcare benefits

Fitness reimbursements

Work from home flexibility

Access to a community of inspiring colleagues

Qualifications

• 4-6 years of experience in data science roles.
• Advanced degree in Physics, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering or Computer Science required.
• Solid knowledge of ML and Deep Learning techniques.

Responsibilities

• Drive exploratory analysis to identify user behaviors and product enhancements.
• Implement machine learning algorithms for production use on big data.
• Provide product leadership through data-based recommendations.

Skills

Data mining

Predictive modeling

Machine learning

Big Data methodologies

Problem solving

Coding

Education

Advanced degree in quantitative discipline

Tools

Python

SQL

Spark

Hive

Tableau

Job description

Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East, making it easier than ever to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Careem is led by a powerful purpose to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organisation that inspires. Since 2012, Careem has created earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of over 70 million customers, and built a platform for the region’s best talent to thrive and for entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Careem operates in over 70 cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.

About the team

The Careem Data Science team’s mission is to drive competitive value from data at scale through building AI models to optimize user experiences, decision making, operational efficiencies, and lead the region’s AI ecosystem. As one of the tech leaders in this team, you will be at the forefront of fulfilling this mission. You will be working with the top data science talent of the region, while innovating on our user experience using GenAI.

What you'll do

• Be part of a 0-1 AI transformation for Careem app from personalization perspective.
• Build a long-term vision on how we can rethink our customer acquisition and engagement strategies leveraging data in our decision making.
• Drive exploratory analysis to understand the ecosystem, user behavior; identifying new levers to help move metrics and build models of user behaviors for analysis and product enhancements.
• Shape and influence data / ML models and instrumentation to optimize the product experience and generate insights on new areas of opportunity and new products.
• Provide product leadership by sharing data-based recommendation to communicate state of business, root cause of change in metrics and experimentation results influencing product and business decision
• Implement scalable machine learning algorithms that will be used in production on big data.
• Embark on exploratory data analysis projects to achieve better understanding of phenomena as well as to discover untapped areas of growth and optimization.
• Answer complex analytic questions from big data sets to help Careem shape its products and services in a better way.
• Help define and track the appropriate key metrics for specific projects.
• Design and run randomized controlled experiments, analyze the resulting data and communicate results with other teams.
• You will always challenge the status quo and continually investigate new data processing technologies and seek to ensure that we follow the industry best practices.
• Build and deploy retrieval augmented generation systems and other applications of large language models.

What you'll need

• 4-6 years of experience in data mining, predictive modeling, time series analysis, machine learning, Big Data methodologies, transformation and cleaning of both structured and unstructured data.
• Advanced degree in a quantitative discipline such as Physics, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering or Computer Science.
• Solid experience with Deep Learning Techniques (e.g attention, retrieval models, etc)
• 1-2 years industrial experience in personalization, recommendation or search is a MUST. Preferably working in a product driven company.
• Strong problem solving and coding skills.
• Solid knowledge of AB testing, classic ML and DL
• Solid understanding of recommendations, ranking and retrieval.
• Proficiency and demonstrated experience in : Python, SQL, Spark, Hive.
• Demonstrated experience with database technologies (e.g. Hadoop, BigQuery, Amazon EMR, Hive, Oracle, SAP, DB2, Teradata, MS SQL Server, MySQL).
• Demonstrated experience with business intelligence and visualization tools (Tableau, MicroStrategy, ChartIO, Qlik) along with geospatial data processing skills is a plus.

What we’ll provide you

We offer colleagues the opportunity to drive impact in the region while they learn and grow. As a full time Careem colleague, you will be able to :

• Work and learn from great minds by joining a community of inspiring colleagues.
• Put your passion to work in a purposeful organisation dedicated to creating impact in a region with a lot of untapped potential.
• Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day.
• Work 4 days a week in office & 1 day from home, and remotely from any country in the world for 30 days a year with unlimited vacation days per year. (If you are in an individual contributor role in tech, you will have 2 office days a week and 3 to work from home.)
• Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes.

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