Senior Real-Time Personalization Scientist

careem; Dubai; On-site; AED 380,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East to simplify and improve people’s lives. We are seeking a senior AI/Data Scientist to lead personalization at regional scale, applying graph-based retrieval, transformers, and real-time learning to cross‑vertical recommendations across Food, Quik, and Shops.

You’ll own real‑time personalization, design scalable ranking/models, and push RAG/LLM applications within the personalization stack, reporting to the Personalization team in

Qualifications

• 6–8 years of experience in data mining, predictive modeling, time series analysis, machine learning, and Big Data methodologies.
• Advanced degree in a quantitative discipline such as Physics, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or Computer Science.
• Solid experience with deep learning techniques, attention mechanisms, retrieval models, and transformer-based architectures applied to ranking or recommendation problems.
• Experience with knowledge graphs, graph neural networks, or graph-based retrieval systems.
• 2–4 years in personalization, recommendation, or search at scale.
• Proficient in Python, SQL, Spark, and Hive; familiar with BI tools like Tableau.

Responsibilities

• Drive real‑time, cross‑vertical personalization across Careem apps.
• Own hyper‑personalization use cases, learning user intent in real time and transferring signals across verticals.
• Lead graph-based retrieval explorations for recommendations and candidate generation at scale.
• Build next‑generation ranking models and transformer‑based architectures for sequential/contextual recommendation.
• Pioneer real‑time online learning systems that adapt within a session.
• Shape cross-learning across Food, Quik, and Shops to maximize efficiency and impact.

Skills

Python

SQL

Spark

Hive

Tableau

A/B testing

Deep learning

Education

Advanced degree in Physics/Statistics/Math/Engineering/CS

Tools

Hadoop

BigQuery

Amazon EMR

Hive

MySQL

Job description

Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East to simplify and improve people’s lives. We are seeking a senior AI/Data Scientist to lead personalization at regional scale, applying graph-based retrieval, transformers, and real-time learning to cross‑vertical recommendations across Food, Quik, and Shops.

You’ll own real‑time personalization, design scalable ranking/models, and push RAG/LLM applications within the personalization stack, reporting to the Personalization team in