Lead Data Scientist

Jeddah Tax Free10 days agoFull-time External
Negotiable
Title: Lead Data Scientist – Integrity & Safety Tech Stack: Python, SQL, PyTorch, Transformers, Scikit-learn, OpenCV, NLP, Multimodal (CLIP/ViT + BERT), Graph Learning, Kafka/Redis Streams What You'll Do: As the Senior Data Scientist for Integrity & Trust, you will protect millions of buyers and sellers by building AI-driven defense systems that detect fraud, remove counterfeit products, and maintain platform quality. Your work directly impacts trust and growth in a high-COD environment, ensuring the platform remains secure and reliable. You will: • Build and deploy supervised and unsupervised ML models for policy violation, counterfeit, and fraud detection. • Lead and grow the Integrity, Safety & Trust pod, mentoring applied data scientists and delivering end-to-end projects with measurable business outcomes. • Design feature pipelines leveraging product text, images, seller behavior, and transaction data. • Apply NLP models for text classification, entity extraction, and multilingual moderation (Arabic + English). • Utilize multimodal architectures (CLIP, ViT + BERT) for image–text cross-validation. • Develop graph-based and anomaly detection models to identify coordinated or suspicious merchant activity. • Collaborate with product, legal, and operations teams to define integrity policies and feedback loops. • Implement dashboards and real-time monitoring for detection and escalation (Elastic, Grafana). • Optimize model precision/recall tradeoffs balancing enforcement and user experience. • Work with graph learning, anomaly detection, and multimodal data pipelines. Who They Are: You'll be joining a high-growth e-commerce platform focused on marketplace trust and safety. The team operates in a complex, fast-paced environment where your AI solutions will directly impact millions of users. This is a chance to lead a critical function, scale a data science team, and implement cutting-edge AI techniques to ensure platform integrity. What Is In It For You: • Medical Health Insurance • Performance Bonus • Additional perks and growth opportunities • 35k SAR Who You Are: • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field • 5+ years of applied ML experience, with 2+ years in Trust & Safety, Integrity, or Fraud Detection systems • Experience with multimodal text-image modeling (OCR, CLIP/ViT, layout analysis), taxonomy/attribute extraction, policy classification, and Arabic/English content moderation • Strong Python, SQL, and ML library skills (PyTorch, Transformers, Scikit-learn, OpenCV) • Experience developing streaming or near-real-time detection systems (Kafka, Redis Streams, or equivalent) • Knowledge of e-commerce ecosystems, product policy enforcement, and counterfeit/low-quality detection is a plus • Proven ability to build and grow applied data science teams and deliver measurable business outcomes • Excellent analytical reasoning, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with a strong ability to balance enforcement precision with business impact