We are seeking a highly talented Data Scientist to join our MENA Science team and drive the development of state-of-the-art machine learning solutions for our customers in the MENA region.
In this role, you will leverage state-of-the-art machine learning and data science techniques to create solutions that directly address critical customer problems. Your work will directly impact the customer experience and profitability of our MENA businesses, helping us enhance catalog quality, improve machine translation, prevent abuse and fraud etc.
Key job responsibilities
• Invent, implement, and deploy machine learning algorithms and models to solve complex, real-world problems for our MENA customers.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, and other applied scientists, to identify high-impact areas for innovation.
• Prototype and test new approaches, such as leveraging large language models (LLMs) and other advanced techniques, to drive measurable improvements in key business metrics.
• Tackle a diverse range of challenges, such as improving catalog quality through large language models, enhancing machine translation, developing abuse prevention systems etc.
• Staying up-to-date with the latest advancements in machine learning and data science, and proactively identifying opportunities to apply these techniques to drive business impact.
A day in the life
Diving deep in to ambiguous and complex business problems and translating them to appropriate ML problem statements. Applying relevant science solutions for the ML problems. Staying abreast with evolving science landscape and applying the state-of-the-art.
About the team
MENA tech is a 200 people tech organization spread across Jordan, UAE, India and Seattle, building amazing solutions for customers in the region. We deploy in MENA first but build for the world.
- Master's degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, machine learning or equivalent quantitative field
- 3+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience
- 3+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience
- 3+ years of data scientist or similar role involving data extraction, analysis, statistical modeling and communication experience
- • 5+ years experience in projects involving ML and/or DS
- • Experience in Machine Learning, Statistics, Data Science, or Neural Networks.
- • Ability to convey rigorous mathematical concepts and considerations to non-experts.
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