Senior Data Scientist - Recommendation Systems Pod

Salla

📍 Mecca, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia

Full-time Mathematical Science Occupations Posted June 24, 2026

Job Description

Join us in building the intelligence that powers product discovery for millions of shoppers and thousands of merchants across the Middle East. As a Senior Data Scientist for the Recommendation Systems Pod, you'll lead the design and execution of large-scale personalization models that directly impact the company topline.

This is a rare opportunity to shape the next generation of commerce AI in a high-growth market characterized by highly diverse user and merchant behaviors across the GCC.

Responsibilities

  • Design, train, and deploy recommendations/personalization models leveraging deep learning, sequence models (Transformers, GRU), and boosted trees (XGBoost, LightGBM).
  • Develop multi-objective ranking that blends engagement, conversion, and merchant value into a single ranking score (value model), using multi-task learning where shared representations help.
  • Build scalable two-stage retrieval and ranking systems — ANN retrieval (...