The role of a Data Scientist at Dataiku is quite unique. Our Data Scientists not only code up solutions to real-world problems, but also participate in client-facing endeavours throughout the customer journey. This includes supporting their discovery of the platform, helping integrate Dataiku with other tools and technologies, some user training, and co-developing data science projects from design to deployment.

Just as non-technical skills are important, so too are technical skills. Our Data Scientists work on the Dataiku platform every day. Aside from the visual tools, our team primarily uses Python and SQL, with occasional work in other languages (e.g., R, PySpark, JavaScript). An ideal candidate is excited to learn complex new technologies and modelling techniques while being able to explain their work to other data scientists and clients.

In this role, you'll help the team:

• Co-develop production-level data science projects with our customers

• Analyse and investigate various kinds of data and machine learning applications across industries and use cases

• Help users discover and master the Dataiku platform, via user trainings, office hours, and ongoing consultative support

• Provide data science expertise both to customers and internally to Dataiku’s sales and marketing teams

• Develop custom Python-based “plugins” in collaboration with Solutions, R&D, and Product teams, to enhance Dataiku’s functionality

You might be a good fit for the role if you have:

• English - fluent, Arabics - fluent/native will be a big plus

• Curiosity and a desire to learn new topics and skills

• Empathy for others and an eagerness to share your knowledge and expertise with your colleagues, Dataiku’s customers, and the general public

• The ability to clearly explain complex topics to technical as well as non-technical audiences

• 2 - 10 years of experience with Python and SQL

• 2 - 10 years of experience with building ML models and using ML tools (e.g., sklearn)

• Familiarity with data visualisation in Python and R

• Understanding of underlying data systems such as Cloud architectures, Hadoop, or SQL

Technical skills that may help you in the role:

• Experience with Consulting and/or Customer-facing Data Science roles

• Experience with Data Engineering or MLOps

• Experience developing WebApps in JavaScript, RShiny, or Dash

• Experience building APIs

• Experience using enterprise data science tools

• Passion for teaching or public speaking

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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 the Careem app from a 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, and identify 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 recommendations to communicate the state of the business, the root cause of change in metrics, and experimentation results, influencing product and business decisions
• Implement scalable machine learning algorithms that will be used in production on big data.
• Embark on exploratory data analysis projects to achieve a 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

• 7-9 years of experience in data mining, predictive modeling, time series analysis, machine learning, Big Data methodologies, and 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 of 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 skill, is a plus.